GRADUATE SEMINAR OFFERINGS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY FALL 2008

In addition to Hist 300A (Introduction to History Methods and Research), the department will be offering the following graduate seminars in the fall semester 2008.

HISTORY 301 The Art and Craft of Teaching History, T, 1:10-4:00 p.m. Professor Marshall Eakin
Introduction to the theory and practice of college-level teaching. Readings on pedagogical theory, current research on teaching and learning. Hands-on exercises in course design, preparing tests and assignments, grading, lecturing, leading discussion, cooperative learning, service-learning, and the use of technology to enhance teaching.

HISTORY 302a Readings in American History to the Civil War, W, 3:10-6:00 p.m. Professor Catherine Molineux
This course is the graduate level introduction to recent literature in early American history, from the era of colonization through the Civil war. Books have been selected to include a wide range of periods, regions, topics, and methods. Weekly discussions will focus on the historiographical and methodological significance of each book. Students will be expected to write four short papers (1-2pp), 1 historiographical paper (7-10pp) and lead one discussion with the aid of the instructor.

HISTORY 324 Readings in Modern European History, M 12:10-3:00 p.m. Professor James Epstein
Thematic readings in European History, from the age of revolution to the Great War. The course will introduce students to a range of the most significant recent works in the field of modern European history.

HISTORY 358 Comparative Slavery in the Colonial Americas, R, 12:10-3:00 p.m. Professor Jane Landers
This is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of comparative slavery in the Americas. It will introduce you to exemplary scholarship in what is an exciting and rapidly growing field of "Atlantic world" slave studies. You will read works examining slavery in Spanish, British, French, and Portuguese America. Topics covered will include labor and culture in slave communities; the legal and customary treatment of slaves; varieties and examples of slave resistance, and free African communities in the colonial Americas. Please note, this is not a course on the antebellum United States.

HISTORY 374 Studies in Recent American History: The State, Politics, and Society in American History, 1776-present, W 12:10-3:00 p.m. Professor Gary Gerstle
This course examines the relationship between the state and society in the United States from 1776 to the present. It investigates the nature of the America state, contests over state power, and the way in which groups in civil society penetrated the state or were themselves controlled and regulated by state policy. It asks how state institutions and contests, and state-society relationships changed over time. It explores what difference federalism has made to the deployment of state power. The course covers a broad array of topics, including economic, labor, and welfare reform; the regulation of morals, sexuality, and race; mobilizing for and fighting wars; the role of the state in national security and foreign affairs; the significance of the courts for statebuilding; and the history of civil liberties, interpreted to mean the freedom of the individual from interference on the part of the state. The course draws on a large range of readings, including political theory, labor and welfare state histories, diplomatic and military history, histories of sexuality and morality, legal history, and political science.

HIST 398 01 Dissertation Seminar, T 4:10-6:00 p.m. Professor Crawford
HIST 398 02 Dissertation Seminar, T 4:10-6:00 p.m. Professor Lunbeck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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