printer friendly pageHISTORY 299X: Preparing for International Field Work: Public Service or Research (HISTORY 399A)
Open to students in all classes, those planning internships abroad and those planning research, from juniors with honors theses and sophomores with Chappell Lougee grants to freshmen thinking ahead. Introduces resources on campus for planning international research and service. Raises issues that need to be considered in advance of going abroad: ethical concerns, Human Subjects Protocol, networking, personal safety and gender issues, confronting cultural differences. Exposes students to research methods: case studies, interviewing, working in foreign libraries and archives.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Kollmann, N. (PI)
;
Roberts, R. (PI)
HISTORY 301: Introduction to Public History and Public Service (AFRICAAM 102, CSRE 201, HISTORY 201)
Gateway course for the History and Public Service interdisciplinary track. Topics include the production, presentation, and practice of public history through narratives, exhibits, web sites, and events in museums, historical sites, parks, and public service settings in nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
McKibben, C. (PI)
HISTORY 301A: The Global Drug Wars (HISTORY 201A)
Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afghan 'narco-state,' Andean cocaine as a global commodity, the politics of U.S.- Mexico drug trafficking, incarceration, drugs, and race in the U.S., and the globalization of the American 'war on drugs.'
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Crews, R. (PI)
HISTORY 302G: Peoples, Armies and Governments of the Second World War (HISTORY 202G)
Clausewitz conceptualized war as always consisting of a trinity of passion, chance, and reason, mirrored, respectively, in the people, army and government. Following Clausewitz, this course examines the peoples, armies, and governments that shaped World War II. Analyzes the ideological, political, diplomatic and economic motivations and constraints of the belligerents and their resulting strategies, military planning and fighting. Explores the new realities of everyday life on the home fronts and the experiences of non-combatants during the war, the final destruction of National Socialist Germany and Imperial Japan, and the emerging conflict between the victors. How the peoples, armies and governments involved perceived their possibilities and choices as a means to understand the origins, events, dynamics and implications of the greatest war in history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Vardi, G. (PI)
HISTORY 303: Premodern Economic Cultures (HISTORY 203)
A comparative survey of premodern economies and the value systems that supported them. Students will read and discuss theories of economic culture as well as historical monographs about specific regions. Discussions will focus on the comparison and conceptualization of premodern economic cultures. Students will be required to research the literature on a particular premodern society of their choosing, compile an annotated bibliography of that literature, and compose an essay analyzing the problems and possibilities presented therein.
Last offered: Spring 2014
HISTORY 303C: History of Ignorance
Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studies including: corporate denials of harms from particular products (tobacco, asbestos), climate change denialism, and creationist rejections of Darwinian evolution. Students will be expected to produce a research paper tracing the origins and impact of a particular form of ignorance.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Proctor, R. (PI)
HISTORY 303D: The Holocaust in Recent Memory: Conflicts - Commemorations - Challenges (HISTORY 203D, JEWISHST 283D, JEWISHST 383D)
This course offers an in-depth approach to the study of the Holocaust as a historical point of reference for European memory, or for the memory cultures of European nations, where the international context in particular the USA and Israel will also be taken into consideration. The starting point is the transformations in Holocaust memory: after 1945, in the era of European postwar myths, the Holocaust was on the periphery of historical thinking, of scholarly and public interest. Today the Holocaust is acknowledged as a 'break in civilization', a watershed event in human history. This approach has only evolved since the 1980s.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Uhl, H. (PI)
HISTORY 303K: Trauma and History: Intergenerational suffering and collective healing
This course will examine trauma as a historical process, following the intergenerational impacts of history's darker dramas, analyzing collective strategies for coping and healing after trauma, and asking whether we can speak of "traumatized societies." Readings for graduate students will include Ben Shephard's A War of Nerves, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman's The Empire of Trauma, and selections from Yael Danieli, ed., Intergenerational Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. Colloquium will be discussion-oriented, but will also include guest discussants from around the world. The course will culminate in a conference to be held at Stanford, June 4-6: "Soul Wounds: Trauma and Healing Across Generations." Undergraduate requirements for 1 credit: Attend weekly "Mind, Body, and Culture" workshop and first hour of Wednesday morning discussion, attend some part of conference on June 4-6. Graduate requirements for 4-5 credits: Attend workshop, read weekly, discussion on Wednesday mornings, write a paper and if desired present at conference.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 304: Approaches to History
Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. This course explores ideas and debates that have animated historical discourse and shaped historiographical practice over the past half-century or so. The works we will be discussing raise fundamental questions about how historians imagine the past as they try to write about it, how they constitute it as a domain of study, how they can claim to know it, and how (and why) they argue about it.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Baker, K. (PI)
HISTORY 304G: War and Society (HISTORY 204G)
How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects on those who produce, are subject to, and must come to terms with its aftermath. Literary representations of WW I; destructive psychological effects of modern warfare including those who take pleasure in killing; changes in relations between the genders; consequences of genocidal ideology and racial prejudice; the theory of just war and its practical implementation; and how wars are commemorated.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Weiner, A. (PI)
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