printer friendly pageHISTORY 335C: Readings in the Supernatural (HISTORY 235C)
Class will read and discuss a selection of monographs, scholarly essays, and primary sources on the rich supernatural world of early modern Europe. We will discuss how fairies, werewolves, nightmares, and trolls all became witches, how the binary of angels and demons figured in European thought, and how the marginalized imaginary was reconstituted in theatre and fiction.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 336B: Hobbes to Habermas: The Idea of Society in Modern Thought (HISTORY 236B)
Classic texts in social theory from the seventeenth century to the present. Readings include Locke, Smith, Hegel, Comte, and Durkheim, and Weber.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Baker, K. (PI)
HISTORY 336E: Humanities+Design: Visualizing the Grand Tour (CLASSICS 396, DLCL 396)
Study of the eighteenth-century Grand Tour of Italy through visualization tools of the digital age. Critical readings in both visual epistemology and current Grand Tour studies; interrogating the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in digital humanities; what new insights in eighteenth-century British travel to Italy does data visualization offer us? Students will transform traditional texts and documents into digital datasets, developing individual data analysis projects using text mining, data capture and visualization techniques.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Ceserani, G. (PI)
;
Coleman, C. (PI)
HISTORY 336F: The End of the World As They Knew It: Culture, Cafés, and Crisis in Europe, 1880-1918 (HISTORY 236F)
The years stretching from roughly 1880 to end of the First World War were marked by profound social upheaval and an intense burst of creativity. This seminar will focus on the major cultural movements and big ideas of the period. Topics covered include the rise of mass culture and cinema, the origins of psychoanalysis, anti-Semitism and Zionism, new anxieties about sexuality and the 'New Woman,' anarchism, decadence, degeneration, and Dada - with cameos from Bernhardt, Freud, Klimt, Nietzsche, Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilde, Zola, and other luminaries of the age.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Braude, M. (PI)
HISTORY 337: The Holocaust (HISTORY 137, JEWISHST 183, JEWISHST 383)
The emergence of modern racism and radical anti-Semitism. The Nazi rise to power and the Jews. Anti-Semitic legislation in the 30s. WW II and the beginning of mass killings in the East. Deportations and ghettos. The mass extermination of European Jewry.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Rodrigue, A. (PI)
HISTORY 337C: Street History: Learning the Past in School and Out (EDUC 356)
Interdisciplinary. Since Herodotus, history and memory have competed to shape minds: history cultivates doubt and demands interpretation; memory seeks certainty and detests that which thwarts its aims. History and memory collide in modern society, often violently. How do young people become historical amidst these forces; how do school, family, nation, and mass media contribute to the process?
Last offered: Spring 2009
HISTORY 337K: Speed and Power in Twentieth-Century Europe (HISTORY 237K)
Europeans living in the 20th century witnessed an unprecedented (and, to many observers, frightening) acceleration in the pace of everyday life, wrought by the introduction of a host of new travel technologies. Focusing on the metropolises of Europe, this seminar will explore the various ways that trains, planes, and automobiles have shaped modern urban life. We'll also look at how 20th-century artists and writers have treated the interrelated themes of speed and power in their work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Braude, M. (PI)
HISTORY 338A: Graduate Colloquium in Modern British History, Part I
Influential approaches to problems in British, European, and imperial history. The 19th-century British experience and its relationship to Europe and empire. National identity, the industrial revolution, class formation, gender, liberalism, and state building. Goal is to prepare specialists and non-specialists for oral exams.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Satia, P. (PI)
HISTORY 338E: European Legal History (HISTORY 238E)
(Same as
LAW 441.) This seminar will explore major topics in European legal history from ancient Rome through the present: Roman law, canon law, feudalism, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century constitutionalism, modern natural law, the age of absolutism and the rise of the centralized, administrative state, the structure of Old Regime law and society and the radical changes brought about by revolution, the German historical school of jurisprudence, and the rise of the European Union and a new culture of international human rights. In exploring these topics, we will focus on certain core, recurring themes that continue profoundly to shape the world in which we live. These include the sources and nature of law (positive law vs. custom), the relationship between law and society, and the relationship between law and history. Classroom discussion will focus on selected primary- and secondary-source texts that we will read as a group. nnThis course is cross-listed with
LAW441. The course will be limited to 12 SLS students with 10 additional slots held for students enrolling in
HISTORY338E.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Kessler, A. (PI)
HISTORY 338G: Ethnography of the Late Middle Ages: Social history and popular culture in the age of the plague (HISTORY 238G)
During the late Middle Ages, as Europe was recovering from the devastation of the Black Death, political reorganization contributed to a burst of archival documentation that allows historians richly detailed glimpses of societies in transition. We will be reading selected scholarly articles and monographs covering such topics as persecution, prechristian cultural remnants, folk theologies, festival cultures, peasant revolts, heresy, and the advent of the diabolic witch.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
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