Updated July 5, 2011
Dear History Majors,
This history page is created in order to give you details about the 200W and capstone/capstone alternative courses. Go to YES registration program to see the complete selection of course titles, dates, and times.
You will need to meet with you adviser IN PERSON before the end of March. Your adviser must release an electronic academic hold on your account before you can register. Please email your adviser for an appointment. You adviser is listed on your YES landing page.
Note: HIST 200W is a prerequisite for your capstone course. Please enroll in this course at your earliest convenience. There will be three sections of this course offered each term in 2011-12.
Fall 2011 HIST 200W courses:
Hist 200W 01, MW 12:10-1:25, Blackett, topic line: History through the eyes of the biographer
Hist 200W 02, TR 1:10-2:25, Maggor, topic line: Historiography and Methods
Hist 200W 03, TR 9:35-10:50, Maggor, topic line: Historiography and Methods
Notice to Economic/History Interdisciplinary Majors: You have options for your HIST 295 by taking a capstone alternative course. These changes appeared in the 2010-2011 catalog. Please link to the Economics Department page for the major requirements here.
DUAL LISTINGS – Fall 2011
Please check the “Eligible for History Majors” drop down menu on YES to see what courses in other programs count toward the history major.
Special courses dual listed for Fall 2011 term only:
JS 258 01 Ethiopian Jews taught by Professor Jim Quirin from Fisk University. Counts toward the Middle East and Africa area of concentration.
EUS 240 01 Conspiracy Theories taught by Professor Joskowicz. Counts toward the European area of concentration.
Check back soon for more EUS dual listed courses at the end of May.
Link here for the 2011-12 Undergraduate Catalog.
JUST ADDED!
Visiting Professor Henning Grunwald will teach European history courses for the Department of History 2011-12.
Fall 2011:
EUS 215W Europe on Trial, MW 1:15-2:30 pm, counts toward European area of concentration.
HIST 228 Europe 1900-1945, MW 11:15-12:30, counts toward European area of concentration.
**NEW COURSES**
History 211a. The Mughal World, TR 2:35-3:50.
Mughal history from 1500-1750. The early modern world and Islamic empires. Akbar and Hindu-Muslim interactions in South Asia. Oriental despotism and the idea of the monarch. Gender and authority. English, Dutch, and Portuguese views. Trade and the decline of Mughal authority. Globalization, the rise of the Indian entrepreneurs, and the East India company. FALL. [3] Sheikh. (INT)
Areas of concentration for history majors: Asia.
History 254a. Race and Nation in Latin America, MWF 10:10-11:00.
Late nineteenth century to the present. Social, political, and cultural constructions of belonging. Citizenship and state building. Immigration, education, urbanization, civil and international wars, and gender and sexuality. Case studies draw from the Andes, Spanish Caribbean, Southern cone, and Brazil. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 294 section 2 in fall 2010 or section 1 in fall 2009. FALL. [3] Castilho. (INT)
Areas of concentration for history majors: U.S., Latin America.
CAPSTONE ALTERNATIVE COURSES
A junior or senior history major who has completed HIST 200/200W may elect to take HIST 284b, 285a, 287g, 288W as the capstone toward the history major.
*Note that HIST 287d Immigration, Race and Nationality with Professor Gerstle will be offered F2011 but will NOT be allowed to be used as a capstone alternative course.
Steps to make this happen:
- Enroll as usual for the course.
- Sign the contract on the first day of class stating you will complete an extra research paper.
- Have the instructor, or yourself, bring the contract to Heidi Welch, Benson Hall, room 227. The contract must be filed within the first two weeks of the term.
- Fulfill the work specified in the contract.
- If you don’t complete the extra course work this course will NOT count as a capstone.
DESCRIPTIONS OF CAPSTONE ALTERNATIVE COURSES F2011
284b. Health and African American Experience, W 2:10-4:40 pm
This seminar surveys disparities in the health care of African Americans, the training of black professionals, the role of black medical institutions, the intersection between black civic involvement and health care delivery, and the disproportionate impact of disease and epidemics within the African American population. FALL. [3] Dickerson. (US)
Areas of concentration for history majors: U.S.; Science, Medicine & Technology
285a. Human Biological Enhancement, TR 2:35-3:50
Debates over human trait modification through recent advances in pharmaceuticals, bioelectronics, and genetics. Emphasis on possible long-term social, cultural, and moral consequences. FALL. [3] Bess. (P)
Areas of concentration for history majors: U.S.; Science, Medicine & Technology
287g. Making of Modern Paris, R 2:35-5:05
The city from the old regime to the present. Social and cultural history of Paris and its residents. Paris versus French provinces; revolutionary upheavals; challenges of rapid urbanization; Paris as literary, artistic, and consumer capital; the changing physical landscape of the city; immigration and the globalization of Paris. FALL. [3] Clay. (INT)
Areas of concentration for history majors: European
288W. Blacks and Money, MW 2:10-3:25
Social and cultural history of money, markets, and exchange in the Black World in the twentieth century. Reparations and debt; race, wealth and class; Black Marxism and Black Capitalism; gifts and primitive money; informal economies and black markets. Readings from history, economics, anthropology, and cultural studies. FALL [3] Hudson (P)
Areas of concentration for history majors: U.S.
HISTORY DEPARTMENT 295 CAPSTONE SEMINAR FOR HISTORY MAJORS
Note: In order to enroll in a 295 course you must be a junior or senior history major who has completed HIST 200/200W. You will be bumped from the course if you have not already completed HIST 200/200W.
295 DESCRIPTIONS FOR FALL 2011
History 295 01. Religion and the Occult in Early Modern Europe, W 12:30-3:00
This course examines the various ways that popular and learned ideas about religion and the supernatural interacted in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Our focus will be the occult, ranging from various alchemical and astrological practices to widespread notions about ghosts, werewolves, fairies, and other supernatural beings. We will pay particular attention to the witch craze phenomenon of 1560-1650 and the real world repercussions of ideas about the occult. Students will write two short essays and one final research paper on a topic of their choosing. FALL [3] Harrington (no AXLE credit)
Areas of concentration for history majors: European.
History 295 03. U.S. and the Cold War, M 1:10-3:40
This course is a research seminar on the Cold War, an era of history which begins with the end of World War II and the collapse of the Grand Alliance, the intense crises of the 1950s through the Cuban confrontation and Vietnam, and extends through the detente of the 1970s and the second Cold War of the early 1980s, concluding with the final collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We will discuss and read materials dealing with some of the central issues of the Cold War, as well as the key crises, as well as exploring the Cold War from the different perspectives of the major participants, especially the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Major emphasis will be placed on developing a research topic from the many primary sources available. FALL [3] Schwartz (no AXLE credit)
Areas of concentration for history majors: U.S..
Any questions about the undergraduate major may be directed to the History Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies.
