printer friendly pageHISTORY 438: European History Workshop
All European history graduate students in residence register for this weekly workshop, at which dissertation chapters and prospectuses, papers, and grant proposals by students and faculty are read and discussed.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Robinson, P. (PI)
HISTORY 460: America in the World
Ways to place American history in an international context. Comparative, transnational, diplomatic, and world systems are approaches to complete a research paper based on research into primary materials. Historical methodologies, research strategies, and essay projects. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Chang, G. (PI)
HISTORY 471A: Environmental History of Latin America
What role did the natural environment play in the emergence of Latin America as a distinct geographical and socio-cultural world region? How do we analyze the historical relationship between the regions rich and seemingly abundant natural resources and its status as underdeveloped? What historical consequences did this relationship have and what alternative, more sustainable developmental paths can we envision for the future in light of the past that we will study? In this course, students will become familiar with the historiography on Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Cuba and Honduras that has explored these questions through a variety of approaches, methodologies and points of view.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Wolfe, M. (PI)
HISTORY 471B: Environmental History of Latin America
What role did the natural environment play in the emergence of Latin America as a distinct geographical and socio-cultural world region? How do we analyze the historical relationship between the region's rich and seemingly abundant natural resources and its status as 'underdeveloped'? What historical consequences did this relationship have and what alternative, more sustainable developmental paths can we envision for the future in light of the past that we will study? In this course, students will become familiar with the historiography on Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Cuba and Honduras that has explored these questions through a variety of approaches, methodologies and points of view.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Wolfe, M. (PI)
HISTORY 481: Research Seminar in Middle East History (JEWISHST 287S, JEWISHST 481)
Student-selected research topics.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Crews, R. (PI)
HISTORY 481A: Research Seminar in Middle East History
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Beinin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 486A: Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History (JEWISHST 486A)
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 486B: Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History (JEWISHST 486B)
Prerequisite:
HISTORY 486A.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 491A: Modern Korea Research Seminar
This graduate seminar prepares students to undertake research using Korean-language sources on a variety of themes in modern Korea. Students will identify characteristics of major online and offline archives in Korean studies, learn essential skills in investigating primary sources, and analyze selected sample documents in class.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 494C: Early Empires: Han and Rome (CLASSHIS 344)
This course systematically compares the Han Empire and the Roman Empire in order to provide insight into the distinctive features of the empires as a political and social type. Topics examined will include geographic frames, the nature of the ruler, the role of the city, the form and function of military forces, religious aspects, legal codes, structures of kinship, and the relation of these states to the outside world.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (PI)
;
Scheidel, W. (PI)
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