Department of History Course Descriptions FallNEWSLETTER 2015

Department Location: 416 Varner Undergraduate Advisor: Craig Martin Department Phones: (248)370-3510 or 411 Varner (248)370-3511 (248) 370-3512 [email protected] Department Office Hours: M-F 8am-4:30pm

Chair: Todd Estes Please call department phone #’s for 411 Varner (248)370-3534 undergraduate advising appts. [email protected]

Graduate Advisor: Don Matthews 404 Varner (248)370-3525 [email protected]

Information contained in this memo is current as of 4/02/15 and is subject to change.

Noteworthy Items: Courses that satisfy the Introduction to European  Requirement for all history university general education History Before 1715 courses: There is an appropriate requirement in U.S. diversity: HST I. Greenspan writing component in all history 114, HST 115, HST 292, HST 318, TR, 10:00-11:47 AM, 302 PH courses at all levels. HST 319, HST 322, HST 361, & HST Surveys the history of Europe 362. (Note: not all courses are from the ancient period through  Courses that satisfy the offered every semester.) the Middle Ages, Renaissance, university general education Reformation and the Early Modern requirement in the Western periods. civilization knowledge area: HST Fall 2015 Classes Style: TBA 101, HST 102, HST 114, HST 115 & Requirements: TBA HST 292. (Note: not all courses are Books: Spielvogel, Western offered every semester.) HST 101 Civilization, A Brief History, (CRN #: 42189) Seventh Edition, Vol. I. (CRN #: 42273) States and the forces promoting unity and division in the new HST 101 Introduction to European nation. (CRN #: 40924) History Since 1715 Style: Lectures, discussion, I. Greenspan readings. Introduction to European TR, 1:00-2:47 PM, 206 VAR Requirements: TBA History Before 1715 Surveys the history of Europe Books: Nash, The American J. Naus from the Enlightenment to the People: Creating a Nation and a TR, 1:00-2:47 PM, 302 PH present. Society, Concise Edition, Vol. 1, Surveys the history of Europe Style: TBA 7/E. from the ancient period through Requirements: TBA the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Books: Spielvogel, Western HST 114 Reformation and the Early Modern Civilization, Vol, II periods. (CRN #: 40925) Style: TBA HST 102 Introduction to American Requirements: TBA History Before 1877 Books: Cole, Symes, Coffin & (CRN #: 44485) M. J. Miles Stacey, Western Civilization: Their Introduction to European TR, 8:00-9:47 AM, 165 SFH History and Their Culture; History Since 1715 Surveys American history from Euripides, The Trojan Women; S. Moran colonial times through the Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; TR, 3:00-4:47 PM, 302 PH Reconstruction era. Focuses on MacEvitt, The Crusades and the Surveys the history of Europe the social, political, and economic Christian World of the East; from the Enlightenment to the development of the United States. Machiavelli, The Prince. present. Style: Lecture, discussion, and Style: Lecture/Discussion/Video film. HST 102 Requirements: Map Quiz on Requirements: In-class mid-term (CRN #: 40923) Europe in 1920; 3 Identification exam (essay and objective), in- Blue Book Tests, Two Essay class final exam (essay and Introduction to European Examinations (Midterm and Final objective); book review paper; History Since 1715 Examinations) eight in-class open-book textbook S. Williams Books: McKay, Hill & Buckler, A reading quizzes; attendance. MWF, 12:00-1:07 PM, 302 PH History of Western Society, Vol. 2; Books: Oakes, Of the People, Surveys the history of Europe Voltaire, Candide; Marx, Concise 2nd Edition, Vol. 1; from the Enlightenment to the Communist Manifesto; Author Douglass, Narrative of the Life of present. Koeslter, Darkness at Noon. Frederick Douglass; Akers, Style: Lecture and required Abigail Adams; Dew, Apostles of weekly discussion meetings. HST 114 Disunion. Requirements: 1 paper, five map quizzes, mid-term and final essay (CRN #: 41866) HST 114 exams, and required participation Introduction to American (CRN #: 43527) in weekly discussions. History Before 1877 Books: Kagan, Western Heritage- G. Milne Introduction to American TLC, Vol.II; Wiesner-Hanks, History Before 1877 Discovering Western Past, Vol. II, MWF, 9:20-10:27 AM, 302 PH B. Zellers 6th edition. Surveys American history from M, 6:30-9:50 PM, 202A ODH colonial times through the Reconstruction era. The course traces the HST 102 transformation of America from a (CRN #: 40247) Requirements: TBA place, a destination for immigrants from many nations, to Introduction to European Books: Norton, A People and a Nation Vol. 1 bundle with Major a distinctive social order. We will History Since 1715 Problems in American History Vol. examine the evolution of J. Powell 1, 3rd ed. American society, culture, MWF, 1:20-2:47 PM, 206 VAR economy, and politics through the Surveys the history of Europe era of Reconstruction after the from the Enlightenment to the HST 114 Civil War. present. (CRN #: 40245) Style: Lecture & discussion. Style: TBA Introduction to American Requirements: Two examinations Requirements: TBA and two essays. Books: Perry, Western History Before 1877 Books: Tindall, America; Binder & Civilization; France, The Gods Will E. Dwyer Reimers, The Way We Lived, Vol. Have Blood; Bessel, Life in the MWF, 10:40-11:47 AM, 206 VAR 1; Wood, The Americanization of Third Reich. Surveys American history from Benjamin Franklin; Frost, I’ve Got colonial times through the a Home in Glory Land. Reconstruction era, focusing HST 102 upon the formation of the United Recommended: Hacker, A Pocket Books: Tindall & Shi, America, and challenges these posed Style Manual; Linderman, Vol. 2; Bell, Out of This Furnace; American hopes and expectations. Embattled Courage. McElvaine, Down & Out in the Style: Lecture & discussion. Great Depression. Requirements: Two brief essays, HST 114 two examinations. Books: Tindall, America; Binder & (CRN #: 43598) HST 115 Reimers, The Way We Lived, Vol. Introduction to American (CRN #: 41869) 2; Hayden, Building Suburbia; Hayden, A Field Guide to Sprawl. History Before 1877 Introduction to American D. Prentiss Recommended: Hacker, A Pocket T, 6:30-9:50 PM, 205 VAR History Since 1877 Style Manual; Youngs, Eleanor Surveys American history from J. Powell Roosevelt. colonial times through the MWF, 2:40-3:47 PM, 302 PH Reconstruction era, focusing Surveys American history from HST 201 upon the formation of the United Reconstruction to the present, States and the forces promoting emphasizing the emergence of the (CRN #: 44499) unity and division in the new United States as an industrial- History of Michigan nation. urban nation with global interests. C. Shelly Style: Lecture & discussion. MWF, 9:20-10:27 AM, 5037 HHB Requirements: TBA Requirements: TBA Examines various aspects of Books: Cengage Learning, Books: Tindall & Shi, America: A Michigan history from the pre- MindLink for MindTap U.S. History Narrative; Von Drehle, Triangle: colonial era through the twentieth 6-months Printer Access Card. The Fire that Changed America; century. Economic, political, O’Brien, The Things They Carried social, and environmental themes HST 114 receive emphasis. HST 115 Style: Discussion; lecture. (CRN #: 44488) (CRN #: 40634) Requirements: 3 or 4 exams Introduction to American (primarily essay); 1 or 2 papers. Introduction to American History Before 1877 Books: Rubenstein & Ziewacz, Michigan: A History of the Great D. Prentiss History Since 1877 Lakes State; Dowd, War Under On Line M. J. Miles Heaven; Watts, The People’s Surveys American history from TR, 10:00-11:47 AM, 105 WH Tycoon; Boyle, Arc of Justice. colonial times through the Surveys American history from Reconstruction era, focusing Reconstruction to the present. upon the formation of the United Focuses on the social, political, HST 210 States and the forces promoting and economic development of the (CRN #: 44500) unity and division in the new United States. nation. Style: Lecture, discussion & film. Science/Tech Western Requirements: In-class mid-term Culture Requirements: TBA exam (essay and objective), in- C. Martin Books: Cengage Learning, class final exam (essay and TR, 8:00-9:47 AM, 308 PH MindLink for MindTap U.S. History objective); book review paper; A survey of the development of 6-months Printer Access Card. eight in-class open-book textbook science from antiquity to the reading quizzes; attendance. present with reference to its Books: Oakes, Of the People, technological consequences and HST 115 nd Concise 2 Edition, Vol. II.; influence upon society. (CRN #: 40582) Washington, Up From Slavery; Style: TBA Youngs, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Requirements: TBA Introduction to American Personal and Public Life; Seiler, History Since 1877 Books: Jacob, The Scientific Republic of Drivers: A Cultural Revolution: A Brief History with C. Shelly History of Automobility in Documents; Herbert, Charles MWF, 8:00-9:07 AM, 302 PH America. Darwin and the Question of This survey of American history Evolution; Bowler & Morus, since Reconstruction emphasizes Making Modern Science. political, economic, social, and HST 115 diplomatic themes. Major topics (CRN #: 41035) include immigration, race Introduction to American relations, politics and political HST 229 reform efforts, the Great History Since 1877 (CRN #: 43543) Depression, twentieth-century B. Zellers W, 6:30-9:50 PM, 263 SFH Piracy in Atlantic World wars (hot and cold), etc. G. Milne Style: Lecture & discussion. Surveys American history from Reconstruction to the present, W, 6:30-9:50 PM, 202B ODH Requirements: 4-6 page paper This course examines popular based on assigned reading; emphasizing the emergence of the United States as an industrial- images of pirates and piracy in the possibly two or more quizzes; two light of historical sources and or three exams (primarily essay). urban nation with global interests historians’ analyses. In doing so, Prerequisites: WRT160; one North American it will investigate the social, history course; History major or political, religious, and economic instructor’s permission. Borderlands motivations for piracy and its role The course introduces students to G. Milne in the development of the Atlantic historiography, methods of MWF, 12:00-1:07 PM, 310 PH World. historical research, and the Prerequisite: WRT 160; Style: Lecture and discussion. writing of research papers. A detailed, topical study of the Undergraduate Requirements: Students will write a research political, social, cultural, and three short papers, a mid-term, paper addressing the engagement economic development of the and a take-home final. of the US and Americans with the United States from the drafting of Undergraduate Books: Games & Middle East, and students will the Constitution through the end Rothman, Major Problems in present their findings to the class. of the War of 1812. Course will be Atlantic History; Lane, Pillaging Style: Lectures & discussion and organized around significant the Empire; Rediker, Villians of All student presentations. topics, themes, and issues of the Nations; Lambert, The Barbary Requirements: TBA. period. Wars. Books: Hahn, Crisis and Style: Lecture and discussion. Crossfire; Turabian, A Manual for Undergraduate Requirements: HST 261 Writers of Term Papers, Theses, Several papers, exams and regular and Dissertations; Galgano, Doing participation in class discussion. (CRN #: 44506) History Research and Writing in Graduate Requirements: same as Introduction to Latin the Digital Age. above but with additional American History to 1825 assignments. Undergraduate Books: Pekka E. Shesko HST 300 Hamalainen & Benjamin Johnson, TR, 10:00-11:47AM 307 PH (CRN #: 40422) Major Problems in the History of A Survey of pre-Colombian and North American Borderlands; colonial Latin America to 1825, Seminar in Historical White, The Middle Ground; Hogue, stressing the Hispanization of the Research Metis and the Medicine Line; society, its socio-economic D. Clark Overmyer-Valazquez, Beyond la institutions, the influence of the TR, 3:00-4:47 PM, 310 PH Frontera; Truett, Fugitive Enlightenment and the Prerequisites: WRT 160; one Landscapes; Rampolla, A Pocket achievement of political history course; History major or Guide to Writing History. independence. instructor’s permission. Graduate Books: same as Style: TBA The development of critical undergraduate but with additional Requirements: TBA judgment regarding the nature library reading requirements. Books: Mintz, Domestic and use of historical evidence; Revolutions: A Social History historiographical readings, library investigation into specific topics HST 312/512 HST 292 within a general historical subject, (CRN #: 43552, 43553) a research paper and a (CRN #: 40588) presentation of the paper to the Civil War and History of the African seminar. Reconstruction, 1850- American People Style: TBA 1876 D. Dykes Requirements: TBA E. Dwyer MWF, 1:20-2:27 PM, 309 PH Books: TBA M, 6:30-9:50 PM, 270 SFH Surveys the African-American Prerequisite: WRT 160; The experience from the African HST 300 origins of secession, the wartime background through the Civil War problems of the Union and the and post-Civil War periods to the (CRN#: 41399) Confederacy, the principal military present. Seminar in Historical campaigns, the Reconstruction Style: TBA Research era and the creation of a new union, and the significance of the Requirements: TBA D. Hastings Civil War and Reconstruction in Books: Franklin & Brooks, From W, 6:30-9:50 PM, 371 SFH Slavery to Freedom; Palmer, American history. Passageways; Sterling, Black Prerequisites: WRT 160; one Style: TBA Foremothers; HST 292 history course, History major or Requirements: TBA Coursepack. instructor’s permission. Books: TBA Style: Seminar Requirements: Research project, HST 300 (papers and presentations), HST 315/515 (CRN #: 40244) attendance. (CRN #: 44537, 44538) Seminar in Historical Books TBA American History 1928- Research 1945 W. Matthews HST 307 K. Miller MWF, 10:40-11:47 AM, 210 EH (CRN #: 44501) MWF, 12:00-1:07 PM, 318 PH Prerequisites: WRT 160; A history Requirements: TBA philosophy, politics, and the of the Great Depression and the Books: Cowan, More Work for development of the scientific World War II. Topics will include Mother; Gilmore, Gender and Jim revolution. the One Hundred Days, the Crow; Harris, In Pursuit of Equity; Style: TBA foundation of the modern welfare Lapore, The Secret History of Requirements: TBA state, the foundation of the Wonder Women; Benedict, The Books: Agrippa, Agrippa’s Occult modern civil rights movement, the Lonely Soldier. Philosophy; Principe, The Secrets reorganization of American of Alchemy; Grafton, Cardano’s corporate enterprise and the role HST 323/523 Cosmos; Yates, Giordano Bruno of the United States in & The Hermetic Tradition; international peacekeeping. (CRN #: 44545, 44546) Mirandola, On the Dignity of Man. Style: TBA Topics in African Requirements: TBA American History HST 335/535 Books: Metz, Killing the D. Dykes Poormaster; Hegarty, Victory (CRN #: 44543, 44544) MWF, 10:40-11:47 AM, 320 PH Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Prerequisite: WRT 160; Topic is Britain 1911 to Present Patrioututes; Sullivan, Days of “African Americans in Michigan.” S. Moran Hope; DePastino, Bill Mauldin; Covers time period from early R, 6:30-9:50 PM, 173 SFH Maher, Nature’s New Deal. settlement to recent times, with Prerequisite: WRT 160; emphasis on the twentieth century An analysis of British political, HST 320/520 and Detroit’s recent economic and cultural and social history from (CRN #: 42696, 42697) political troubles. the eve of World War I to the Covers African Americans in present. Cold War America, 1945- Michigan from early settlement to Style: Lecture/Discussion/Video 1990 recent times. Population Requirements: British Isles Map D. Clark distribution, occupations, gender, Quiz; 3 take home essay exams, R, 6:30-9:50 PM, 369 SFH families, social and political one novel essay. Prerequisite: WRT 160; activities, community Graduate Requirements: Same as Topics to be explored include the development, and organizations in above with two take home essay origins of the Cold War between a context of historical exams, major historiography the United States and the Soviet development. essay. Union, McCarthyism, Vietnam, the Style: Lecture, discussion, film, Books: Moran, Patrick Pearse and Civil Rights Movement, the guest speakers. the Politics of Redemption; Women’s Movement, and the end Undergraduate Requirements: Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and of the Cold War. Two examinations, essay and Today; Wasson, Sources and Style: Discussion and film. objective, and a documented Debates in Modern British History, Undergraduate Requirements: research paper. Overy, The Morbid Age; Robert Take-home essays, journals. Graduate Requirements: Same Roberts, The Classic Slum, John Undergraduate Books: Schrecker, Undergraduate Books: Thomas, Keegan, Winston Churchill. The Age of McCarthyism; Life for Us Is What We Make It; Graduate Books: Same as above. Borstelmann, The Cold War and Jelks, African Americans in the the Color Line; Leffler, Specter of Furniture City; Robinson, A City HST 349/549 Communism; Griffith, Major Within A City; Darden & Thomas, Problems in American History Detroit Race Riots, Racial (CRN #: 42280, 42281) Since 1945; Olson & Roberts, Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge France in the Age of Where the Domino Fell: America the Racial Divide. Absolutism and and Vietnam, 1945-2004. Graduate Books: Same as above Graduate Requirements: TBA plus Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Enlightenment Graduate Books: TBA Crisis. S. Chapman Williams MWF, 10:40-11:47 AM, 316 PH Prerequisite: WRT 160; HST 322 HST 332 The ancient regime in France from (CRN #: 43556) (CRN #: 44539) the end of the wars of religion to Women in Modern Occult Sciences and the beginning of the Revolution. Style: Lecture & Discussion. America Witchcraft in Early Undergraduate Requirements: K. Miller Modern Europe Two papers on designated topics, MWF, 1:20-2:27 PM, 314 PH C. Martin midterm and final essay exam, Prerequisite: WRT 160; An TR, 10:00-11:47 AM, 376 SEB discussion participation. analysis of the role of women in Prerequisite: WRT 160; Examines Graduate Requirements: Major industrial America which will the occult sciences (alchemy, historiography/research paper, examine the legal role of women, astrology, and natural philosophy) midterm and final exam, their presence in the labor force, in Europe during the 16th and 17th discussion participation and their participation in the centuries. Focuses on the Undergraduate Books: Collins, political system. relations between practices of The State in Early Modern France; Style: TBA these fields and religion, Hill, The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu; Diefendorf, Reich: Charisma and Community; Prerequisite: WRT 160; Covers the The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Kershaw, Hitler Myth. collective and individual Massacre. experience of African-American Graduate Books: Same as HST 357/557 women from slavery to the undergraduate books plus (CRN #: 42699, 42700) present, including the quality of additional readings, TBA. family life, economic roles, and Arab-Israeli Conflict their activities in women’s civil HST 352/552 D. Matthews rights and political organizations. (CRN #: 43563, 43564) MWF, 9:20-10:27 AM, 312 PH Style: TBA Prerequisite: WRT 160; Undergraduate Requirements:TBA Nationalism in Modern Examines the origins and Graduate Requirements: TBA Europe development of the Arab-Israeli Undergraduate Books: TBA D. Hastings conflict, the emergence of a peace Graduate Books: TBA MWF, 12:00-1:07 PM, 316 PH process, and the collapse of that process, focusing primarily on the Prerequisite: WRT 160; development of Israeli and HST 363/563 Origins and development of Palestinian political identities and (CRN #: 43985, 43986) nationalism in Europe from the institutions. History of eighteenth through twentieth Style: TBA centuries. Political formation of Requirements: TBA Argentina/Brazil/Chile European nation states, the varied Books: Laqueur & Rubin, The E. Shesko cultural manifestations of Israel-Arab Reader; Smith, TR, 3:00-4:47 PM, 318 PH nationalism and the reawakening Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Prerequisite: WRT 160; The social, of European nationalism in the Conflict; Jacobson, From Empire political and economic history of aftermath of the Cold War. Argentina, Brazil and Chile in the to Empire; Robinson, Citizen th th Style: Lecture & discussion. Strangers. 19 and 20 centuries; expansion Requirements: Paper and 2 exams and Indian warfare; slavery and Books: Breuilly, The Formation of Empire in Brazil; regionalism and the First German Nation State; HST 361/561 nationalism; industrialization and Mosse, Nationalization of the (CRN #: 42282, 42283) urbanization; and international Masses; Payne, A History of History of American relations. Fascism 1914-1945; Gellner, Style: TBA Nations and Nationalism; Families Undergraduate Requirements:TBA Hutchinson & Smith, Nationalism; D. Dykes Graduate Requirements: TBA Riall, Risorgimento: The History MWF, 9:20-10:27 AM, 102 WH Books: TBA of Italy from Napoleon to Nation- Prerequisite: WRT 160; State; Burleigh, Earthly Powers; This course will focus upon the HST 370/570 Burleigh, Sacred Causes. history of families in America as social and historical institutions. (CRN #: 42285, 41494) Readings will cover native born Origins of Modern Japan, HST 353/553 and immigrant families as well as (CRN #: 44541, 44542) ethnic and racial minorities. Each 1568-1912 Nazi Germany: Society, student will write a paper on his or W. Londo her own family history. (Identical TR, 8:00-9:47 AM, 320 PH Politics and Culture with WGS 361.) Prerequisite: WRT 160; Japan D. Hastings Style: Lecture/discussion/films. from the “Late feudalism” of the MWF, 2:40-3:47 PM, 384 SEB Undergraduate Requirements: Tokugawa period through the first Prerequisites: WRT 160; Two examinations, essay and phase of Western-style Introduction to the Nazi regime in objective, and a family history modernization in the Meiji period. Germany. Special attention given paper. Themes include the perfection and to the origins and early years of Graduate Requirements: Same. decay of the samurai state, the the Nazi movement, as well as the Undergraduate Books: Mintz & Meiji revolution, nationalism, nature of German society, politics, Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions; imperialism and movements for and culture during the Third Moody, Coming of Age in social and political democracy. Reich. Mississippi; HST 361/561 Style: TBA Style: Lecture & discussion. coursepack. Undergraduate Requirements:TBA Requirements: Paper and 2 Graduate Books: Same plus Graduate Requirements:TBA exams. Degler, At Odds. Undergraduate Books: Farris, Books: Burleigh & Wipperman, Japan to 1600; Lu, Japan: A Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945; Documentary History; Friday, Sax & Kuntz, Inside Hitler’s HST 362/562 Japan Emerging; Keene, Germany; Gregor, Nazism; (CRN #: 43541, 43542) Yoshimasa and the Silver Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve History of African Pavillon. Police Battalion 101 and the Final Graduate Books: TBA Solution in Poland; Fischer, Rise American Women of the Nazis; Kitchen, The Third E. Dwyer MWF, 1:20-2:27 PM, 174 SFH HST 375 (CRN #: 44504) HST 390 (CRN #: TBA) Women in China 1700 to (CRN #: 40385) Directed Readings in Present ST: The Holocaust History Y. Li I. Greenspan Staff R, 6:30-9:50 PM, 364 SFH TR, 3:00-4:47 PM, 372 SFH Prerequisites: WRT 160; and Prerequisite: WRT 160; Prerequisites: WRT 160; instructor permission. The history of women’s changing For major and non-majors. Independent but directed readings position in modern China, May be repeated for additional for juniors and seniors interested including a survey of women’s credit. in fields of history in which status in traditional Chinese Style: TBA advanced courses are not society under the Qing (1644- Undergraduate Requirements:TBA available. Offered each semester. 1911), women as contributors to Graduate Requirements: TBA It is the student’s responsibility to modernization in China during the Books: Dwork & Jan van Pelt, contact and make arrangements revolutionary period (1912-1949), Holocaust; Wistrich, Hitler and the with an instructor prior to and their struggle for equality Holocaust; Friedlander, Nazi registering for this course. since 1949. (Identical with WGS Germany and the Jews, 1933- 375.) 1945; Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing HST 399 Style: Lecture/discussion/film. Executioners; Browning, Ordinary Requirements: midterm exams; Men; Aly, Cooper & Brown, “Final (CRN #: TBA) short oral & written assignments; Solutions”. Nazi Population Policy Field Experience: Public course paper. and the Murder of the European History Books: Pruitt, A Daughter of Han; Jews; Lipstandt, Denying the Staff Xiaodong, Growing Up in the Holocaust: The Growing Assault Prerequisites: HST 300 with a People’s Republic; Pa Chin, on Truth and Memory. grade of 3.3 or higher and JR/SR Family. Recommended: TBA standing; 24 credits in history, of which at least 8 must be at the HST 383 HST 390 300-400 level; instructor (CRN #: 44540) permission. Field experience in (CRN #: 41162) history, with faculty supervision Postcolonial Conflicts in ST: Samurai in Japanese that incorporates student African History History performance in an occupational G. Bekele setting. May not be repeated for W. Londo TR, 10:00-11:47 AM, 479 VAR credit. It is the student’s TR, 1:00-2:47 PM, 310 PH Prerequisite: WRT 160; responsibility to contact and make Prerequisites: WRT 160; For Using the notion of postcolonality arrangements with an instructor majors and non-majors. May be as an organizing theme, this prior to registering for this course. repeated for additional credit. By course seeks to explore large- some accounts, Japan is unique scale conflicts in contemporary in world history for having the HST 491 African history. Topics include longest continuous period of rule the Rwandan Genocide, the (CRN #: TBA) by military rulers. Those rulers are conflict and genocide in Darfur, today commonly known as Directed Research in the crises in the Congo, Somalia, samurai. This course will examine History Ivory Coast, the Niger Delta, the social, cultural, and political Staff Sudan, Algeria, and other parts of history of the samurai, both in Prerequisites: WRT 160; HST 300; Africa. The course also looks at historical fact and in popular instructor permission. the role individual leaders such as portrayals from Japan’s medieval Directed individual research for Zaire’s Mobutu and Libya’s era to the present. Strong advanced history majors. It is the Qaddafi played in the shaping of emphasis will be placed upon student’s responsibility to contact African politics and history in the separating fanciful and inaccurate and make arrangements with an modern era. portrayals of samurai often found instructor prior to registering for Style: lecture, discussion, and in popular media today form the this course. visual presentations actual experiences and activities Requirements: take-home of the samurai in Japanese assignments, term paper, and final history. HST 495 exam. Style: TBA (CRN #: 40653) Books: Mamdani, Saviors and Requirements: TBA Survivors: Ronen, Qaddafi’s Libya Capstone in European Books: Friday, Samurai, Warfare, in World Politics; Wrong, In the and the State in Early Medieval History Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz; Melvern, Japan; Tyler, Trans, Tale of the S. Williams Conspiracy to Murder; Boas & Heike; Ravina, The Last Samurai; MWF, 9:20 – 10:27 AM, 301 WH Dunn, African Guerrillas; Berdal- Conlan, State of War. Prerequisites: History major; HST Jacquin and Plaut, Unfinished 300; 20 credits in history; senior Business. standing. HST 391 This capstone will explore the Prerequisites: HST 300; 20 credits M, 6:30-9:50 PM, 433 VAR history of New France, focusing in history: senior standing or Prerequisites: WRT 160; on the peoples and places in the instructor permission. This course will focus on the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes This course examines the fierce question of citizenship in modern regions from ~1600-1763. political rivalries between Thomas America. The common readings Historiography, research Jefferson, James Madison and will examine both citizenship techniques, and research Alexander Hamilton in the early theory and how historians have problems will be a core part of the U.S. republic and the ways those used various approaches to course and facilitate students’ examine who was eligible for political contests spilled over th completion of their independent “beyond the founders” to ordinary citizenship in the early 20 research projects and papers due Americans, giving rise to political century. at the end of the semester. parties. We will examine the Style: Seminar Style: Seminar discussions and broad themes in the development Requirements: Students are independent research. of early U.S. political culture as expected to engage in a group Requirements: required students work toward specific discussion of the common participation in seminar research paper topics on some readings. In addition, they will discussions of assigned readings, aspect of the political competition write a paper of approximately 20 short written analyses of readings, in early America. pages on a topic approved by the shorter research-in-progress Style: discussion, some lecture. instructor. assignments, and submission of Requirements: students will be Books: No Books final research paper based on required to write a major research primary and secondary sources. paper (at least 20 pages) on some HST 681 Books: Eccles, The Canadian applicable topic. Topic must be (CRN#: TBA) Frontier; Turabian, A Manual for approved by the professor. Writers; Greer, The People of New Books: Cunningham, Jefferson Research Tutorial France; White, The Middle VS. Hamilton Confrontations That Staff Ground; Banks, Chasing Empire Shape a Nation; Fisch, The Prerequisite: grad status, Across the Sea; Witgen, An Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of permission of supervising Infinity of Nations. 1793-1794; Pasley, Beyond the instructor. Recommended: Samuel Eliot Founders; Booth, Craft of Directed individual research Morison, The Francis Parkman Research leading to the writing of a Reader. scholarly paper of substantial HST 591 length. May be repeated for HST 495 credit. (CRN #: TBA) (CRN #: 44536) Directed Readings for Capstone in European Graduate Students History Staff J. Naus Prerequisite: grad status, T, 6:30 – 9:50 PM, 169 SFH permission of supervising Prerequisites: HST 300; 20 credits instructor. in history; senior standing or Directed individual readings on instructor permission. specific topics. In this capstone course student investigate in European history in a seminar setting. Under the HST 600 guidance of the faculty leader, substantive issues, research (CRN #: TBA) techniques and historiographical Field or Thesis problems will be considered as Examination the student prepares a research Staff paper to be submitted at the Prerequisite: grad status, conclusion of the course. permission of faculty advisor. Style: TBA Examination taken in the last Requirements: TBA semester of the student’s Books: TBA program; student must secure permission of the faculty advisor HST 497 before registering. (CRN #: 41404) Capstone in American HST 610 History (CRN #: 44507) T. Estes MWF, 10:40-11:47 AM, 310 PH Colloquium in History K. Miller