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HISTORY 299X: Preparing for International Field Work: Public Service or Research (HISTORY 399A)

Problems involved in research abroad: ethical issues; safety; security and conduct; human subjects protocol. Methodologies of research: interviewing, networking, case studies, participant observation, large surveys.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1

HISTORY 301: Introduction to Public History in the U.S.,19th Century to the Present (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: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Crews, R. (PI)

HISTORY 302A: Questions in Modern World History: Provincializing Europe? (HISTORY 202A)

Though this class will consider themes addressed in most modern history classes (imperialism, liberalism, capitalism, the construction of the modern nation-state, the roots of the 19th and 20th century wars, questions of governance, various forms of resistance, colonizer and colonized identities, and the process of globalization, etc.), we will take a world-historical approach, considering these topics from a non-western viewpoint, outside of a nationalist narrative, while taking a multi-perspectival stance.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Corbally, J. (PI)

HISTORY 302B: Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption in World History, 1200-1800 (HISTORY 202B)

Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the late medieval and early modern world, with an emphasis on the role of European trade and empires in these developments. We will examine recent work on the circulation, use, and consumption of things, starting with the age of the medieval merchant, and followed by the era of the Columbian exchange in the Americas that was also the world of the Renaissance collector, the Ottoman patron, and the Ming connoisseur. This seminar will explore the material horizons of an increasingly interconnected world, with the rise of the Dutch East India Company and other trading societies, and the emergence of the Atlantic economy. It concludes by exploring classic debates about the "birth" of consumer society in the eighteenth century. How did the meaning of things and people's relationships to them change over these centuries? What can we learn about the past by studying things?
Terms: Aut | Units: 4
Instructors: Findlen, P. (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: Aut | 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.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5
Instructors: Stokes, L. (PI)

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: 3
Instructors: Proctor, R. (PI)

HISTORY 303F: Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship (CLASSGEN 241)

How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist scholarship gave way to professional archaeologists, historians, and philologists? Focus is on key works in the history of classics, such as Erasmus and Winckelmann, in their scholarly, cultural, and political contexts, and recent critical trends in intellectual history and the history of disciplines.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Ceserani, G. (PI)

HISTORY 304: Approaches to History

Required of first-year History Ph.D. students.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Hanretta, S. (PI)
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