Graduate Course Descriptions
Spring 2006
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Ancient |
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| 280A.001 - Polis, Ethnos, and Koinon: Approaches to Settlement | Mackil | |
| Tu 2-5 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39520 | |
| Lying at the very heart of the political, social, and economic experience of the ancient Greek world, the polis is a complicated historical phenomenon that poses significant challenges to students of ancient history. Our understanding of the polis has recently been given a hard and salutary shake by the findings of an international, 10-year research project conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Center(CPC). The CPC has, for good or ill, had a major impact on the field of ancient Greek history; we will accordingly consider the successes and the problems of the project as well as its implications for future research. In doing so we will consider some fundamental questions: How, and why, did the Greek polis develop? How distinctive was it from other instances of city-state settlement and political organization in the ancient Mediterranean? We will need to assess the problem of polis autonomy, now regarded by some as a modern fiction, and its implications. In the second part of the seminar we will consider how the polis as an historical phenomenon relates to other forms of social and political organization in the Greek world, the ethnos and the koinon. We will consider the development of these socio-political structures that existed both above and alongside the polis with constant reference to the development of the polis itself. Throughout the semester we will engage with the wide range of evidence necessary to answer these questions, including survey archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics in addition to literary sources. Students are expected to have a good reading knowledge of ancient Greek. There will be one or two class presentations and one final paper. | ||
Asia |
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| 275F.001 - Topics in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History | Wakeman | |
| Tues 10-12 2223 Fulton | CCN: 39508 | |
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This reading course in English language works on late imperial and modernChinese history covers the following subjects: the political economy of late imperial China, Chinese elites, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, religion and literati discourse, the Manchus, civil law and criminal punishment,tribute diplomacy and foreign affairs, elite activism, republicanrevolution and social change, the May Fourth movement, the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, urbanites during the 1920s and '30s, rural conditions and peasant political mobilization, and recent historiographical trends. Seminar members are expected to read two books per week, while discussion leaders will be directed to additional recommended reading. There will be two book reviews and a final 15 to 20 page essay on a question chosen by the individual seminar member from one of the topics discussed in the regular two hour weekly meetings. Prerequisite: an upper division course in modern Chinese history and the consent of the instructor. |
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| 280F.001 - Marxism and the Historical Imagination | Barshay & Scheiner | |
| W 4-6 206 Wheeler | CCN: 39577 | |
| See description posted under 283.001 | ||
| 280F.002 - The Post-colonial Moment – the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe | Irschick | |
| Tu 2-4 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39580 | |
| Among the welter of events following World War II, the emancipation of “colonial peoples” was among the most memorable. Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth was one of the most famous accounts of “post-colonial” people. In this seminar we will examine the way in which “post-colonialism” develops as a way of thinking from the time of Marx and Fanon to the present. We will also consider whether post-colonialism is simply a movement of intellectuals or whether it is a grass-roots movement that incorporates people at all levels of society. Part of the post-colonial project was to free colonized peoples not only from the juridical control of their colonial masters but also the coercive knowledges that made it impossible for these people to speak, to write and to think. One large area of “coercive knowledges” was the writing of history itself. In sites such as South Asia, the Subaltern collective, following the publications of Edward Said, produced a wide variety of work that was theoretically based on Michel Foucault and Antonio Gramsci but also at the same time sought to escape from the influence Freud and Marx. Other writers and movements picked up many of these traces. In this seminar we will read Gilroy’s Black Atlantic, Chatterjee’s, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, Smith’s, White Teeth, Chakrabarty’s, Provincializing Europe, his Rethinking Working Class History, and Prakash’s, Another Reason, along with sections from Marx, Said, Foucault, and Gramsci. Members of the class will be able to write their papers on any world area that reflects these post-colonial orientations. You can get White Teeth and Rethinking Working Class History cheaply from Amazon.com. My email address is irschick@berkeley.edu I would enjoy hearing from you. | ||
| 280F.003 - Histories of Southeast Asian Communism | Zinoman | |
| W 12-2 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39583 | |
| This course surveys the scholarly research on the history of Communism in Southeast Asia. We will examine the introduction of Marxism into the region and the foundation of local communist parties during the early twentieth century. We will explore the complex relationship between communist parties and rival anti-colonial political movements animated by nationalism and/or religion. We will attend to the significance of transnational linkages connecting Southeast Asian communist movements to one another and to communist parties in Western Europe, China, and the Soviet Union. We will assess the impact on Southeast Asian Communism of World War II and Japanese Occupation, of decolonization, of the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party, of the onset of the Cold War and of the break-up of the Soviet Union. We also explore how communist parties have wielded political authority in countries where they assumed power. Several weeks will be devoted to debates about the origins and character of the Khmer Rouge, the relationship between Communism and Nationalism in Vietnam and the destruction of the PKI following the 1965 coup in Indonesia. We will read newly available material on the "Communist Emergency" in Malaya, recent scholarship on the history of Thai Communism and a new book on gender relations and sexual culture within the Philippine communist movement . Some attention will also be paid to the lives and writings of important Southeast Asian Communists such as Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Tan Malaka, Chin Peng and Jit Poumisak. Finally, we will consider the institutional and political forces that have shaped the scholarship on the history of Southeast Asian communism. | ||
| 280F.004 - The Early Modern Ottoman and Spanish Empires: Comparative Tasks and Themes | Dandelet & Peirce | |
| W 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39583 | |
| Also listed as 280B.002, 285B.006 and 285F.002. | ||
| See description posted under 280B.002 listing. | ||
| 285F.001 - Research Seminar on Late Imperial and Modern China | Yeh | |
| F 10-1 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39667 | |
| A detailed description is forthcoming. Please check back. | ||
| 285F.002 - The Early Modern Ottoman and Spanish Empires: Comparative Tasks and Themes | Dandelet & Peirce | |
| W 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39670 | |
| Also listed as 280B.002, 280F.004 and 285B.006. | ||
| See description posted under 280B.002 listing. | ||
Britain |
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| 285C.001 - Research Seminar in Tudor-Stuart Britain | Barnes | |
| Updated October 18, 2005 | ||
| This course has been cancelled. | ||
| A research seminar in British history, 1400-1700, in which the student is to undertake original research in a topic of his or her interest with the approval of and oversight by the instructor. There are no thematic limitations, and if the instructor's predilection is for legal and political history, he'll gladly embrace all facets of the New Social History and whatever interests the serious student. Constant discussion, sharing of ideas, and mutual criticism. | ||
Europe |
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| 275B.001 - Introduction To Late Modern European History | Adamthwaite | |
| Wed 10-12 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39490 | |
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This seminar explores the main themes of the history of Europe since 1900. For background, we will use Mark Mazower's Dark Continent while investigating the treatment of specific themes in monographs. Since the seminar is an introductory course the approach is inclusive -there is no particular spin, social, cultural or otherwise. The emphasis is on informed discussion. Each meeting opens with an oral presentation/review of the topic. Writing assignments: two papers (7-10 pages) and some short book reviews (500 word max). Required texts: Mark Mazower, The Dark Continent, Europe?s Twentieth Century: Vintage Alan S.Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation State, Routledge David Stevenson, 1914-1918: The History of the First World War, Gardners Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists, OUP, Hardback Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire, hardback Bellknap Richard J.Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, Penguin Mary Fulbrook, The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker: Hardback Yale pub date nov. 05 Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism: Vintage paper Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Paper OUP Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography: hardback, Bellknap John Lewis Gaddis, We now Know: Rethinking Cold War History OUP paper Richard Bessel and Dick Shumann,eds, Life After Death , German Historical Institute and CUP 2003 Levy, Carl, and Mark Roseman, Eds. Three Postwar Eras in Comparison: Western Europe, 1918-1945-1989. New York: Palgrave, 2002, hardback Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State, CUP paper Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years 1940-1944: OUP paper |
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| 275B.002 - Medieval Europe | Koziol | |
| W 12-2 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39493 | |
| Updated January 30, 2006 | ||
| New Room! | ||
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An introduction to the historiography of medieval Europe, emphasizing breadth of coverage and targeted to the kind of basic knowledge required for a graduate MA exam. Readings include works on early and later medieval Christianity, Christianization, monasticism, and heresy; social and economic history; political and institutional history (Merovingians, Carolingians, France, England); literacy and popular culture. Special attention is also paid to the way we can most productively read books and take notes that actually mean something to us later. Requirements: 1) two note-taking assignments; 2) two broadly analytic, formal essays (of the sort one would find on a written orals exam); 3) two essays applying a short supplementary reading to the core readings. Note that the meeting time may change depending on student’s needs and available alternatives. Core bibliography: Ian Wood, The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751 Ian Wood, The Missionary Life C.H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism (3 ed.) Pierre Riché, The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe Georges Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy R. I. Moore, The First European Revolution c. 975-1215 Gerd Tellenbach, The Church in Western Europe from the 10th to the 12th c. R. I. Moore, The Origins of European Dissent R. N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-c. 1515 Horst Fuhrmann, Germany in the High Middle Ages, c. 1050-1200 France in the Central Middle Ages, ed. Marcus Bull Robert Bartlett, England under the Norman and Angevin Kings Michael Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record Lester Little, Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy Stephen Justice, Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast, Holy Fast Christopher Dyer, Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages |
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| 280B.001 - The Great War: Crucible of the Twentieth Century | Anderson | |
| Fri 12-2 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39523 | |
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For George Kennan, World War I was "the seminal catastrophe of the Twentieth Century." For historians, it offers one of modern history's richest historiographies. It can be likened to a wheel, with spokes -- nationalism, total war, genocide, revolution, peacemaking, but also welfare-statism, sexual upheaval, decolonialization, and modernism, to name just a few -- reaching into the past and into the future. It has thus provided a rich field for innovative work by cultural and social historians as well as by their political, diplomatic and military colleagues. This seminar will conceive its subject broadly, with works mostly on European countries, but also touching on US and Ottoman history. It will offer the chance to read some classics (Paul Fussell's Great War and Modern Memory, for example) as well as some of the most recent and innovative work (e.g., John Horne and Alan Kramer's German Atrocities 1914. A History of Denial). We will discuss both the "subject matter" and (when relevant) the thesis of each book, but also (with an eye to our own craft) the techniques of the historian and the "genre" of the work. Some weeks we shall tackle contemporary sources: e.g., Abel Gance's film, J'accuse (Nov. 1918; then re-made in the thirties). The work load will stress quality over quantity. My preferred mode, aimed at keeping discussions focussed, is to assign a single book each week. Nevertheless, on some weeks we shall supplement the book with a document, or one or more articles, and even perhaps an additional book, depending on the state of the literature. In addition to vigorous participation, seminar members will have three assignments, whose goals are to provide practice in reviewing, analysis, and pedagogy, respectively: 1) a five-sentence summary of each week's book, due at the meeting at which that book is discussed; 2) a short paper (no longer than 10-15 pages), due at the end of the semester, either analyzing and interpreting a single contemporary document/source of your own choosing, or summarizing and analyzing recent developments in a particular field or sub-field; 3) responsibility for leading one week's discussion (not to be confused with making a "presentation"). |
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| 280B.002 - The Early Modern Ottoman and Spanish Empires: Comparative Tasks and Themes | Dandelet & Peirce | |
| W 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39526 | |
| Also listed as 280F.004, 285B.006 and 285F.002. | ||
| This course will explore comparative themes in the history of the early modern Mediterranean world?s most influential and powerful empires. Imperial mentalities, internal and external colonization, slavery, knowledge and communication, palace culture, bureaucrats and bureaucracies, and religious cultures are some of the central themes that will organize reading and discussion. The course can be taken either as a 280 or 285. In either case a final paper will be required as well as consistent contributions to the seminar discussions. | ||
| 280B.003 - Introduction to the Historiography of Imperial Russia | Frede | |
| M 2-4 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39529 | |
| Updated January 24, 2006 | ||
| New Schedule and Room! | ||
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In this course, students will interrogate the authors of the best of the books and articles about Imperial Russian history in absentia. Their writings will be grouped thematically, with a special focus on the nineteenth century. Special attention will be paid to social, cultural, and intellectual history in that period (these being the primary areas of debate in U.S. writing about Imperial Russia over the last 50 years: society-state relations and "civil society", the role of the intelligentsia, the role of the Church, as well as nationalism and borderlands). One central question will be the impact of the collapse of communism on the approach historians have taken to the nineteenth century. Assignments: weekly book reviews. |
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| 280B.004 - Absolutism and Society in Early Modern France | Sahlins | |
| M 2-4 206 Wheeler | CCN: 39532 | |
| Students must contact instructor before enrolling. | ||
| This seminar, which can be taken as a 285, examines older and recent historiographic debates about the nature of ?absolutism? in France, studied within a broader European context. Topics will include: the 17th ?century crisis; structures of governance; the social foundations of absolutism; politics and the court of Louis XIV; the semiotics of kingship; absolutist citizenship and the law; foreigners, religious minorities and the body politic; the origins of the French Enlightenment. | ||
| 280B.005 - Topics in the Historiography of Modern East Central Europe | Connelly | |
| W 2-4 201 Giannini | CCN: 39535 | |
| Considers debates central to the study of modern East Central Europe: causes and consequences of economic backwardness, roots of national chauvinism and anti-Semitism, the dynamics of Nazi racism, the formation and limits of totalitarian rule, constitution and resuscitation of civil societies, post-Communist transformations, and the reemergence of nationalism. | ||
| 285B.001 - | Barrows | |
| Th 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39628 | |
| A detailed description is forthcoming. Please check back. | ||
| 285B.002 - The Reformation in Modern Memory | Brady & Ocker | |
| F 2-5 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39631 | |
| This course is listed at the GTU as HS 5018. | ||
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This seminar examines some of the leading interpretations of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations as literary, historical, cultural, and theological documents. It will begin with Johann Sleidan, the first historian of the German Reformation, but the chief weight of readings and discussions will range from the late 18^th and to the mid-20^th century. Major subjects may include Idealism (Fichte, Hegel, Thomas Carlyle), Protestant history (Leopold von Ranke, Francis Parkman, Heinrich von Treitschke), Jewish history (Heinrich Graetz), Catholic theology (Johann Adam M?r), Catholic historians (Johann Ignaz von D?nger), Liberal Protestant theology (Albrecht Ritschl, Karl Holl), Liberal sociology (Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch), Marxist history (Friedrich Engels, R. H. Tawney), Critical theology (Barth, Niebuhr), and Ecumenical history (Joseph Lortz). The principal theme of this seminar is not the history of scholarship on the Reformation, though there will be a good deal of that, but the arguments and debates about its relevance to modern culture. A number of professors from the GTU and UCB have agreed to participate, and some sessions will feature visiting scholars. Readings will be available in English, though students are encouraged to read them in the original languages. Many readings will be distributed in the form of copies. One research paper is required, and the seminar will end with reports on student research. This is the final seminar in the Berkeley Reformation Seminar, which is supported by the GTU and by the History Department of UCB. Thomas A. Brady, Jr., & Christopher Ocker. |
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| 285B.003 - European Jewry and the Great War | Efron | |
| M 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39634 | |
| After some background reading dealing with the impact of World War I on European Jewry, students will concentrate on individual research projects chosen in consultation with the instructor. | ||
| 285B.004 - Medieval Italy: Charters | Miller | |
| Tu 2-5 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39637 | |
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This seminar will introduce graduate students to research in the most common and abundant type of source for medieval history: legal instruments, both public and private, drawn up by notaries or scribes, usually on single sheets of parchment. Commonly called ?charters,? these sources have been central in the exploration of the social, economic, political, and ecclesiastical history of medieval Italy. After a brief technical introduction to this category of source, each student will choose a collection of published charters from a city or institution in Italy and use it as the basis for a major research paper. Students will also learn some basic paleography and will practice reading notarial hands. Reading knowledge of Latin required. Prerequisite: History 280B, The Historiography of Medieval Italy or permission of the instructor. |
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| 285B.005 - Absolutism and Society in Early Modern France | Sahlins | |
| M 2-4 206 Wheeler | CCN: 39640 | |
| Students must contact instructor before enrolling in this course. | ||
| See description posted under 280B.004 | ||
| 285B.006 - The Early Modern Ottoman and Spanish Empires: Comparative Tasks and Themes | Dandelet & Peirce | |
| W 10-12 2303 Dwinelle | CCN: 39643 | |
| Also listed as 280B.002, 280F.004 and 285F.002. | ||
| See description posted under 280B.002 listing. | ||
Latin America |
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| 280E.001 - Religion and Church in Mexican History | Taylor | |
| M 10-12 210 Dwinelle | CCN: 39574 | |
| This course is also listed as 285E.001 | ||
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Long neglected, the history of religion in Mexico since the sixteenth century has become a popular and contentious field of study. This readings seminar will explore recent approaches by scholars writing in English, Spanish, and French. The emphasis will be more on issues of local religion, visual culture, and spiritual geography than institutions and theology, but the aim is to recognize and develop synoptic approaches, to ask not only "What is religion for?" but "How is religion experienced?" "How have Mexican lives been transfigured by acceptance or rejection of religious beliefs, practices, and institutions?" A sample of the assigned readings in English: William Christian?s Person and God in a Spanish Valley, Daniel Reff?s Plagues, Priests, and Demons, Terry Rugeley?s Of Wonders and Wise Men, Serge Gruzinski?s Images at War, Brian Connaughton?s Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age, David Brading?s Mexican Phoenix, James Griffith?s Beliefs and Holy Places, several new doctoral dissertations, a forthcoming collection of articles on Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, and a group of essays by the instructor. Expect to read a book or two weekly, participate actively in seminar meetings, and write short essays. |
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| 285E.001 - Religion and Church in Mexican History | Taylor | |
| M 10-12 210 Dwinelle | CCN: 39664 | |
| See description posted under 280E.001 | ||
| 285E.002 - | Chowning | |
| Tu 4-6 201 Giannini | CCN: 39666 | |
| A detailed description is forthcoming. Please check back. | ||
Methodology |
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| 283.001 - Marxism and the Historical Imagination | Barshay & Scheiner | |
| W 4-6 206 Wheeler | CCN: 39619 | |
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This reading seminar has two purposes: first, to explore the impact of Marxism on the writing of history, through an examination of a selected number of protean texts by major figures in Marxian tradition, along with some important interpretive treatments. Second, since Marxism was an international movement and discourse par excellence, we will also look at its spread and impact on historiography outside its Atlantic homeland. Here we turn to Japan--home to a vital and influential Marxian tradition as well as a key medium for the transmission of Marxism to China--as the major case study. The reading list is still a work-in-progress, but major works to be read MAY include: Marx and Engels. "The Communist Manifesto"; Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"; Engels, "The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State'; Lukacs, "History and Class Consciousness'; Gramsci, "Selections from the Prison Notebooks" and "On the Southern Question." Among the interpreters, we will read selections from Leszek Kolakowski, Martin Jay and Perry Anderson, and perhaps Andrzej Walicki. Materials on Japan will include E. H. Norman, "Japan's Emergence as a Modern State"; translated texts or excerpts from Kawakami Hajime, Yamada Moritar?no K? Tosaka Jun, and Nakano Shigeharu; and monographs or essays by Andrew Barshay, Laura Hein, Miriam Silverberg, Peter Duus, Irwin Scheiner, and George Beckmann, among others. Students interested in Marxism, historiography, or modern Japan are welcome. Students who wish to use the course to satisfy the seminar requirement in Japanese history (280F) may do so, through the addition of supplementary readings on Japan. Interested students should contact Andrew Barshay prior to the beginning of the term. |
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Paleography |
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| 281.001 - Paleography | Mavroudi | |
| Th 3-6 | CCN: 39616 | |
| New Schedule! Please note the course times as follows: Th 3-5 (discussion) at 2121 Allston Way; Th 5-6 (practical training) 2223 Dwinelle. | ||
| This course is designed as a general introduction to the use of primary documents pertinent to Mediterranean history and culture during the ancient and medieval periods. It will address issues of paleography, codicology, textual tradition, and the critical edition of sources. The main focus will be on Greek and Arabic documents, but the issues covered will be of interest to anyone interested in the manuscript culture of the medieval Mediterranean even beyond these two languages. We will mainly study books, but will also refer to administrative documents. Though the bulk our material will be medieval, the course is of potential interest to clacissists, since the works of ancient authors survive mostly in medieval manuscripts. The unifying theme for covering such a great chronological, geographical, cultural, and linguistic gamut will be the common developments regarding the technology of book production and the logic of authoring, editing, and reproducing texts before the advent of printing, though differences will also be discussed. Students will be encouraged to work independently in order to learn more about the written documents of the civilization and time period that most interests them beyond what will be covered in class, and will be graded based on class participation and a final paper covering an area of their special interest. In addition to the two-hour seminar discussion, those who know Greek and/or Arabic will also read out of medieval Greek and/or Arabic medieval documents. | ||
Science |
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| 275S.001 - Introduction to the History of Science | Lesch | |
| W 2-4 2231 Dwinelle | CCN: 39514 | |
| An introduction to issues and problems in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century science based on reading, discussion, and written analysis of selected secondary literature. General themes include the organization of science in different national settings, the nature of the scientific community, patterns of scientific change, science and gender, and the relations of science to technology, industry, medicine, government, and warfare. Requirements include several short papers. | ||
| 285S.001 - The Scientific Revolution | Heilbron | |
| W 12-2 332 Giannini | CCN: 39682 | |
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The problematic Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century enjoys the richest historiography of any period in the history of science. The purpose of the course is to master this historiography, compare it with primary sources, examine the propriety of metaphorical labels for historical periods (Dark Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment...), and estimate the utility and vitality of "The Scientific Revolution" as an analytical concept." |
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| 290.001 - Historical Colloquium: History of Science | Hahn | |
| M 4-6 140 Barrows | CCN: 39685 | |
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1 unit, graded S/U. Meets together with the UCB-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. For details see http://ohst.berkeley.edu/ohst_events.html. |
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United States |
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| 275D.001 - Graduate Seminar in post-Civil War US Historiography | Hollinger & McLennan | |
| Th 12-2 3104 Dwinelle | CCN: 39499 | |
| This course invites graduate students to deepen their knowledge of many of the classic texts of post-1865 US historiography, as well as some of the field?s leading-edge work. Rather than a systematic survey of post-Civil War history, the course aims to stimulate discussion of key questions in the field, and to illuminate the explanatory and descriptive power of various approaches and modes of analysis. The common readings for the course (see schedule, below) will be supplemented by individual reading assignments (TBA). | ||
| 280D.001 - American and European Childhoods in World Perspective | Fass | |
| Th 10-12 201 Giannini | CCN: 39556 | |
| We will try to examine how childhood has been defined, imagined and institutionalized from the early modern period to the present by reading widely in the literatures of Europe and the United States. | ||
| 285D.001 - | Einhorn | |
| Updated October 18, 2005 | ||
| This course has been cancelled. | ||
| 285D.002 - Immigration to and ethnicity in the United States | Gjerde | |
| Tu 12-2 108 Wheeler | CCN: 39658 | |
| This seminar will invite students to conduct research on some topic of immigration to and ethnicity in the United States. Issues that might be the basis for research include patterns of migration and migration networks; ethnicization, pluralism, and assimilation; immigration law; gender, immigration, and ethnicity; nativism and inter-ethnic conflict; and religion and ethnicity. The first few weeks of the seminar will include common reading and discussion of a variety of approaches to the study of immigration and ethnicity. | ||
| 285D.003 - Difference, Identity and Nation -- The U.S. From 1800 to 1975 | Martin | |
| W 2-4 2227 Dwinelle | CCN: 39661 | |
| Updated January 17, 2006 | ||
| New Room! | ||
| This seminar will allow students to pursue research interests in U. S. History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While the focus will admittedly be wide-ranging and inclusive, we will begin with a flexible framework built around issues of social structure (social differentiation), ideology and practice and identity formation. I anticipate that research topics will encompass cultural, social and intellectual history. Students with interdisciplinary, comparative and offbeat research projects will be welcomed. As an integral part of the seminar, we will discuss selected interpretive, theoretical and methodological issues generated by a limited number of core readings, in part to be designed by the participants. | ||
| 285D.004 - Rewriting the Canon: A New Look at Political History | Frydl | |
| Th 4-6 102 Barrows | CCN: 39663 | |
| This class will support research projects on the modern US state. We will define "modern" as after Reconstruction, and we will define state as systems of public power. Specifically, we will be looking to write the history of political parties, public officials, and elections in ways that benefit from political history's more recent attentiveness to institutions, political culture, and social movements that effect political change. In what ways can we formulate new questions about the declarative moments and modes of politics once we escape from their self-styled presentation? I especially welcome projects that focus on more "recent" history--as in the 1960s and beyond--provided sources are available and an answerable historical question can be devised about such topics. | ||
Related Interest |
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| UCSF 216 - Psychiatry in the United States | ||
| F 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Spring Term Course at UCSF. For information on any UCSF History courses, contact the Director of the Graduate Program, Professor Elizabeth Watkins, at watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu Interested graduate students can receive credit for these UCSF courses by completing an Intercampus Exchange Program Application. Go to http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/degrees/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Prerequisites: None. Instructor: Justin Suran During UCSF’s Spring 2006 Quarter (which runs from March 27 to June 11), I’ll be offering a ten-week, graduate-level reading seminar on the history of psychiatry in the United States (through the Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine at UCSF). The seminar will survey the development of U.S. psychiatry from the Victorian-era asylums to modern neuroscience. Topics include psychiatry’s relation to neurology, psychology, and psychoanalysis; the central role of Jewish psychiatrists and psychoanalysts; therapeutic innovations (e.g., lobotomy, antidepressants) and the nature of medical progress; psychiatrists as public moralists and agents of social change; and studies of everything from human love to encounters with aliens. Readings include Erik Erikson, Erving Goffman, Charles Rosenberg, Carol Gilligan, V.S. Ramachandran, Tanya Luhrmann, Nancy Tomes, Michel Foucault, Gerald Grob, Mark Micale, Jack Pressman, David Healy, John Mack, and others. NOTE: Ordinarily, we will meet Friday 10-12 at 3333 California St., Suite 485, the UCSF Laurel Heights campus. Our first scheduled meeting conflicts with the Cesar Chavez campus holiday. We will therefore meet for the first time on Thursday, March 30, 4-6pm. Please read T.M. Luhrmann’s Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry (Vintage, 2001) before that first meeting on March 30. |
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| UCSF 204A - Research Methods in the History of Health Services | ||
| Tues 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Spring Term Course at UCSF. For information on any UCSF History courses, contact the Director of the Graduate Program, Professor Elizabeth Watkins, at watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu Interested graduate students can receive credit for these UCSF courses by completing an Intercampus Exchange Program Application. Go to http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/degrees/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Prerequisites: HH200A and HH200B, or permission of the instructor. Instructor: Elizabeth Watkins Introduction to medical historiography, research methodologies, and the craft of interpreting and writing medical history. Discussion of different historical approaches employed in writing history, including intellectual, social, cultural, feminist perspectives, and the sociology of knowledge. Survey of bibliographic tools and training in the methods of oral history. |
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| UCSF 201A - Disease and the Social Order from the Black Death to SARS | ||
| Fri 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Winter Term Course at UCSF. For information on any UCSF History courses, contact the Director of the Graduate Program, Professor Elizabeth Watkins, at watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu Interested graduate students can receive credit for these UCSF courses by completing an Intercampus Exchange Program Application. Go to http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/degrees/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Prerequisites: None. Instructor: Dorothy Porter The course explores the comparative impact of disease upon European and North American societies. It will concentrate on the historical junctures at which diseases occurred; unravel the various levels of meaning which surrounded them in terms of their social, moral, and political interpretations; and analyze the patterns of response to them and discuss their historical consequences. |
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| UCSF 200B - Introduction to History of Health Sciences | ||
| Tues 10-12 3333 California St., S.F. | ||
| Winter Term Course at UCSF. For information on any UCSF History courses, contact the Director of the Graduate Program, Professor Elizabeth Watkins, at watkinse@dahsm.ucsf.edu Interested graduate students can receive credit for these UCSF courses by completing an Intercampus Exchange Program Application. Go to http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/degrees/exchange.shtml for detailed instructions. | ||
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Instructor: Elizabeth Watkins Prerequisites: 200A, or permission of the instructor. Continuation of 200A. This course presents a general survey from 1800 to the present, with the primary focus on Europe and the US. Topics include: the rise of scientific medicine; the significance of germ theory; the development of medical therapeutics and technologies; the growth of health care institutions; the evolution and specialization of the medical profession. |
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| 200X - The Bancroft Library Press Room Course: "The Hand Printed Book in its Historical Context" | Koch | |
| F 1-5 256E Bancroft Library | ||
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A one-semester, two-unit course open to both graduate and undergraduate students. There are no prerequisites but enrollment is by consent of the instructor and is limited to six students because of the small press room space. Interested students may email the instructor at pkoch@library.berkeley.edu and should attend the first class meeting. Under the guidance of the instructor, students examine and discuss original printed books from the Bancroft collections ranging in date from the 15th century to the present. Approximately one half of the class time is devoted to a study of the design and production of books from the hand press period. The course also presents a historical perspective on the various technologies involved in the production of printed books: type founding, paper making, binding, illustrations, and the evolution of the printing press itself. |
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Research and Teaching Credit |
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| 296.001 - Dissertation and Research Writing | ||
| CCN: 39691 | ||
| 298.001 - Employment Credits | ||
| CCN: 39694 | ||
| 601.001 - M.A. Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39790 | ||
| 602.001 - Ph.D. Orals Preparation | ||
| CCN: 39793 | ||