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HISTORY 446A: Research Seminar: African Nationalism and Beyond (HISTORY 246S)

African intellectual, political, social and cultural institutions confronting issues of sovereignty, authority, heterarchy, and power during the 19th and 20th centuries.

HISTORY 446B: Research Seminar: African Nationalism and Beyond

Prerequisite: 446A and consent of instructor.

HISTORY 448A: African Societies and Colonial States (HISTORY 248S)

The encounter between African societies and European colonialism in the colony or region of their choice. Approaches to the colonial state; tours of primary source collections in the Hoover Institution and Green Libraries. Students present original research findings and may continue research for a second quarter.

| Repeatable 2 times (up to 10 units total)

HISTORY 448B: African Socieities and Colonial States

HISTORY 461A: U.S. Women's Family and Sexual History

Research, design, research methods, and historical writing on topics in the history of women, the family, or sexuality in the U.S. Prepares graduate students for dissertation work. Workshop model involves exchanging preliminary prospectus, outline, writing sample, and draft for peer responses. Article-length original paper based on primary sources, to be completed by the end of Spring Quarter.

HISTORY 461B: U.S. Women's Family and Sexual History, Part II

Prerequisite: 461A.

HISTORY 470A: Research Seminar in Latin American Social History

How to use primary sources such as government records, estate inventories, and parish records for social history. 470A: methodological readings in social history and the development of a research project. 470B: research and writing of a seminar paper. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

HISTORY 470B: Research Seminar in Latin American Social History II