HIST 478 - TOPICS LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY Credits: 3 Seminar on selected topics in Latin American history. Contents vary. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 479 - HISTORY: BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES Credits: 3 Seminar on the history of medicine, demography, health and nutrition. Course will acquaint students with importance of biology in explaining the history of the world and writing of history from outside the discipline. Content will focus on general histories of human societies and studies drawn from nutrition, anthropology and economics. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 480 - HISTORY AND PUBLIC POLICY Credits: 3 Seminar in economic history and historical political economy. Students will become acquainted with the analytical tools and quantitative techniques of public policy analysis through the examination of historical case studies, and the range of public policy issues that confronted 19th century policy makers in Latin America and the United States. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 481 - HEALTH AND WELFARE DURING INDUSTRIALIZATION Credits: 3 Seminar explores the changing state of human welfare during industrialization by looking at the evolution of living standards in comparative international perspective. Comparing and contrasting experiences around the world from a broad perspective of indicators: region, timing of industrialization, nature of government policy, pace of change and cultural circumstances. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 482 - DOCTATORS, POPULISTS AND REBELS Credits: 3 Seminar examines the political history of Latin America since Independence by looking at the personalities of its most distinctive dictators, populist and revolutionary leaders such as Pinochet, Trujillo, Chavez, Peron, Che Guevara, Castro, Zapata and Villa among others, within the context of the institutions and organizations of each nation. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 486 - SEX, LIES AND DEPOSITIONS: MICROHISTORIES OF VIRGINIA COUNTY COURT RECORDS Credits: 3 Court records are fascinating sources for understanding the ordinary and extraordinary experiences of early Virginians. Students will read 17th and early 18th century court records and write a research paper based on selected court cases, learning the historian's craft of researching and writing about the past. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 487 - BLACK FEMINISM, THEORY AND HISTORY Credits: 3 Seminar investigates the experiences of black women in the United States from the gendered origins of racial slavery in the British North American colonies, through 19th century slavery and into the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Focus will be on black women's words, ideas and deeds. Cross-list: SWGS 487. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 490 - COLONIAL MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA Credits: 3 History of ideas, treaties, market and corporate strategies in imperialist and anti-imperialist movement in East Asia in 19th, 20th centuries. Uses theories of colonialism and specific case studies of fashion, architecture, mass media, urban planning, etc., to define colonial modernity transnationally. Three analytic essays and one research paper. Cross-list: ASIA 490. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 491 - UNDERSTANDING SECTARIANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST Credits: 3 Seminar will examine the validity of the notion of age-old religious and tribal violence in the region, relate the nature of religious violence in the Ottoman Empire to Zionism in Palestine and sectarianism in Lebanon, and analyze the sectarian struggle in contemporary Iraq in light of the American occupation. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 492 - GENDER HISTORIES OF MODERN CHINA Credits: 3 Seminar course, with some lectures, considers conceptual tools (gynotechnics, globalization, representation, etc.) in Late Imperial/20th Century China thru femininity-masculinity. Late Qing gender order through revolutionary eras Party state formation, Great Transformations of late 20th and early 21st centuries. Visual culture, film, primary texts, secondary histories readings. Cross-listed with ASIA 492 and SWGS 492. Cross-list: ASIA 492, SWGS 492. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 493 - GREAT ISLAMIC EMPIRES OF THE EARLY MODERN AGE Credits: 3 The Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Uzbek Empires shared similar origins but each developed distinct imperial understandings of power and legitimacy, gender, religion, aesthetics. This seminar is a comparative and cross- regional study of early modern Islamic culture and society, its inspiration and legacy. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 494 - MUGHAL HISTORY Credits: 3 Seminar on 16th century Central Asia Muslim Turks who conquered India and, in collusion with local political and social forces developed a sophisticated syncretic royal culture. Readings include memoirs and letters of the royal family, Hindu courtiers, visiting Jesuit priests, European merchants and Ottoman adventurers, examining religion, art, women, family, war and diplomacy. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 495 - COMPARATIVE MODERNIZATION OF CHINA AND JAPAN Credits: 3 Research seminar examining not only the respective modernizing experiences of Japan and China in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also the way that developments in one country influenced developments in the other. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 496 - A TURBULENT TIME: THE WORLD OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION Credits: 3 An examination of the impact of the powerful forces unleashed by the Haitian Revolution on societies in the Caribbean, the U.S., and Latin America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 498 - PROJECTS IN AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY Credits: 3 Seminar in which participants propose and execute a collaborative project in Afro-American history. Work will culminate with a substantive piece of public history (group publication, exhibit, broadcast, or electronic document, for example). For further information, or to suggest a possible project, contact the instructor. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 509 - DIRECTED READINGS Credits: 4 Graduate level, independent readings course. Topics vary. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 510 - DIRECTED READINGS Credits: 4 Graduate level, independent reading course. Topics vary. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 534 - CIVILIZING MISSIONS Credits: 4 The development of "civilizing missions" legitimized territorial and spiritual conquest and validated the suppression of subject customs, cultures, and religions. Course will explore the idea which became an integral part of imperial, religious, and national ideologies. Readings include (in translation) modern historical, geographical, legal, ethnographic, religious, and literary texts. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 537 - COMPARATIVE EMPIRES Credits: 4 Graduate seminar examines Roman and Ottoman notions of empire, European and Eastern historiography of empire in the 18 & 19th centuries, and imperial practice as it was conceived and carried out in both the Ottoman and British contexts (focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on Egypt and India). College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 539 - ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA Credits: 4 Graduate research seminar focused on central issues in the articulation of black society, culture, and labor in the Americas from the 15th century to the early 19th century. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 540 - INDUSTRIALIZATING AMERICA Credits: 4 Seminar will examine, through readings and discussion, the transformation of the United States under the impact of industrialization from 1870 through World War I. Topics include labor, immigration, feminism, the social gospel, Progressivism, the Great Migration of African Americans from the South, and the rise and fall of Victorian culture. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 542 - THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits: 4 Graduate version of HIST 442. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 442 and HIST 542. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 442. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 543 - TOPICS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY Credits: 4 Graduate research seminar on selected themes in modern European history. Topic Fall 2008: exploration of the ongoing history of how Europeans and Americans interpreted Nazism during the "Third Reich" and since 1945 by examining works of scholarship in English and translation. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 544 - MAX WEBER Credits: 4 Graduate seminar, examines sociologist Max Weber in context. Focus on: Weber's methodology and notion of the "ideal type"; modernization theory; the typologies of religious and political understanding; political sociology; the crisis of German liberalism in Weber's own politics. Undergraduates admitted with permission of the instructor. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 545 - WOMEN AND GENDER: EUROPE AND BEYOND Credits: 4 Graduate seminar exploring recent work in key areas of research on women and gender: nationalisms; the modern welfare state; and the challenges which histories of working-class women have posed to definitions of politics, feminism, class, and family. Settings will include colonial Britain, India, Africa, Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Germany. Cross-list: SWGS 545. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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