printer friendly pageHISTORY 303G: Mobile Food: A Global Food History (HISTORY 203G)
The scope of global food history comprises all historical periods. Although, many different fields of history and related areas of expertise join in multi- and cross-disciplinary researches, global food history remains to be above all economic and social history. As this course concentrates on the global distribution of food and eating habits, the central attention lies on the interdependence of regions: starting from their sporadic interrelations, followed by evolving entanglements, and the sometimes subsequent building of, such as trading, institutions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Kaller, M. (PI)
HISTORY 303J: Water in World History (HISTORY 203J)
Examines the human relationship to water in various geographical, ecological, technological, cultural and sociopolitical settings, primarily during, but not limited to, the 19th and 20th centuries. Develops a broad historical understanding of the dwindling supply, deteriorating quality and inequitable distribution of freshwater today.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Wolfe, M. (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.
Last offered: Spring 2015
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: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Daughton, J. (PI)
HISTORY 304D: Advanced Topics in Agnotology (HISTORY 204D, STS 200J)
Advanced research into the history of ignorance. Our goal will be to explore how ignorance is created, maintained and destroyed, using case studies from topics such as tobacco denialism, global climate denialism, and other forms of resistance to knowledge making. Course culminates in a research paper on the theory and practice of agnotology, the science of ignorance.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Proctor, R. (PI)
HISTORY 304G: War and Society (HISTORY 204G, REES 304G)
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: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Weiner, A. (PI)
HISTORY 305: Graduate Pedagogy Workshop
Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. Perspectives on pedagogy for historians: course design, lecturing, leading discussion, evaluation of student learning, use of technology in teaching lectures and seminars. Addressing today's classroom: sexual harassment issues, integrating diversity, designing syllabi to include students with disabilities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 305A: The History of Information (HISTORY 205A)
Examines the history of information from multiple perspectives such as the changing conceptions of facticity and evidence cross-culturally as well as a range of information technologies, from moveable type printing and telegraphy to text messaging and Twitter. Other topics include the ways in which information is shaped by the languages in which it is recorded, stored, and transmitted, and also the ways in which information infrastructures influence what is forgotten and lost.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Mullaney, T. (PI)
HISTORY 305C: Graduate Workshop Series
This is a 1-credit course for which only regular attendance is required, and graduate students may audit any or all of the sessions as they find useful. The majority of the course addresses questions of research, grant writing, and professionalization, while the last few sessions offer general guidance on preparing for the job market.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 305E: Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia (HISTORY 205E, ILAC 267E)
Analysis, in historical perspective, of similarities and differences between development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, on one hand, and China, Japan, and (South) Korea, on the other, topics include impact of colonial and postcolonial relationships on development of states, markets, and classes, as well as geopolitical, social, cultural, technological and environmental factors that shaped and were shaped by them.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Wolfe, M. (PI)
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