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FREN 8585 - Seminar in Civilization/ Cultural Studies
In-depth studies of cultural topics and research methodologies in French civilization. Prerequisite: FREN 580 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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FREN 8993 - Independent Study
Independent Study
Credits: 3
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FREN 8998 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 3 to 12
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FREN 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
Credits: 3 to 12
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FREN 9999 - Dissertation Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 3 to 12
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FRTR 7588 - Comparative Caribbean Culture
Comparative examination of contemporary culture in the Caribbean region with an emphasis on literature. Considers historical writing (essays), musical forms, and film as manifestations of the process of creolization in the area. Questions of ethnic diversity and nation-building are central to the course.
Credits: 3
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FRTR 7589 - Comparative Caribbean Literature
A comparative examination of postcolonialism and postmodernism in the Caribbean region, emphasizing the dynamics of center and margin. Texts are taken from the anglophone, francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5030 - Readings in Chinese Religion
Examines selected readings from a specific text, figure, or theme. Readings emphasize possible structures of religious language and their translation.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5060 - Interpretation of Myth
An interdisciplinary study of myth, focusing on structuralist, hermeneutical, and history of religion methodologies.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5070 - Interpretation Theory
Analyzes existentialist, phenomenological, structuralist, literary, historical, and psychological approaches to the interpretation of texts, especially narrative religious texts; and the interactions of language, history, and understanding.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5080 - Seminar on Religion and American Culture I
Historical examination of Americans’ religious identities in relation to the dominant values of American social and intellectual life, with particular attention to the concept of community. Subjects include Puritanism, the Mennonites, the Shakers, Mormonism, and the growth of Evangelicalism. Prerequisite: A course in either American history or American religious history. Open to upper-level undergraduates.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5140 - Seminar on a Major Religious Thinker
Studies the relationship between philosophical and religious thought as seen in a selected philosopher or theologian.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5150 - Issues in Religious Ethics
Studies selected issues such as mysticism and morality, conscience, natural law, nonviolence, and methodology in religious ethics.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5170 - Seminar in History of Religions
Introduces the basic thinkers in the field of history of religions and to fundamental problems in the study of religious sociology, mythology, and ritual.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5180 - Seminar in Philosophical Theology
Studies ideas of God in Western thought from Plato through Descartes.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5240 - Problems in Philosophy of Religion
Examines classic and contemporary discussions of problems in the philosophy of religion.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5370 - Feasting, Fasting and Faith: Food in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Feasting, Fasting and Faith: Food in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Credits: 3
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RELG 5515 - Issues in Religious Ethics
Studies selected issues such as mysticism and morality, conscience, natural law, nonviolence, and methodology in religious ethics.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5541 - Seminar in Social and Political Thought
An examination of the social and political thought of selected religious thinkers.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5559 - New Course in Religion
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of general religion.
Credits: 1 to 4
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RELG 5630 - Seminar: Issues in the Study of Religion and Literature
Analyzes, in terms of fundamental theory, the purposes, problems, and possibilities of interdisciplinary work in religion and literary criticism.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5690 - Contemporary Religious Movements
Studies the psychological, sociological, and political dimensions of conversion and ideological commitment in selected contemporary religious movements.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5710 - The Victorian Crisis of Faith: Its Religious and Literary Expressions
Studies the religious dilemmas at the center of English thought in the 19th century, from the time of Keble’s Assize sermon and the advent of the Oxford Movement into the period of Thomas Hardy. The focal figures include Newman, Tennyson, Clough, Arnold, Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5730 - Theology of Culture
Studies the relationship between religion and culture. Topics include a theological assessment of the value of culture; the impact of secularization; the critique of religion levied by various disciplines; and the problems of theology in a pluralistic context.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5750 - Myth and Ritual
Studies theories of myth and ritual from an interdisciplinary perspective, including selected mythological and ritual texts.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5780 - Wallace Stevens and the Absolute
A close reading of Wallace Steven’s major poems and an evaluation of their theological significance. Prerequisite: Graduate seminar plus advanced undergraduates in approved.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5850 - Narrative in Ethics and Theology
Examines the nature of narrative modes of representation and argument, and how narrative theory has been employed in contemporary ethics and religious thought.
Credits: 3
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RELG 5920 - Theology and Politics
Investigates the relationship between theological reflection and political thought, focusing on how theological positions may have implications for political theory and vice-versa. Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 7050 - Myth and Modern Drama
Studies the religious and narrative elements of Greek, biblical, and other mythic traditions as they exist in the works of modern dramatists.
Credits: 3
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RELG 7140 - Comparative Indo-European Mythology
Studies structural parallels between myths of the Indo-European language family, based on the methods pioneered by Georges Dumezil.
Credits: 1
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RELG 7210 - Kant and Philosophy of Religion
Examines Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, with special attention to Kant’s view of the relation between the theoretical and practical employments of reason, and the implications for theistic belief.
Credits: 3
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RELG 7220 - Rationality, Justification, and Religious Belief
Examines several major contemporary approaches to the question of the justification of religious belief, involving issues of relativism and kinds of rationality.
Credits: 3
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RELG 7250 - Kierkegaard and Philosophy of Religion
Examines Søren Kierkegaard’s contribution to the philosophy of religion through his major philosophical works, Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Their bearing on the philosophical study of religion is highlighted by a prefatory examination of some works by Hume or Kant which provide useful contrast.
Credits: 3
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RELG 7450 - Phenomenology and Theology
This seminar investigates the relations between phenomenology and theology.
Credits: 3
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RELG 7528 - Topics in Modern Religious Thought
Examination of a major topic in modern religious thought–e.g., religious imagination, ethical and religious subjectivity, metaphor and religious language, religious and ethical conceptions of love.
Credits: 3
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RELG 7559 - New Course in Religious Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Religious Studies.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8000 - Negativity and Religious Imagination
Examines the ways in which imaginative literature, theological reflection, and hermeneutical inquiry interpret aspects of negativity in human experience and understanding.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8055 - Seminar in the Thought of Martin Heidegger
Examines the works of Heidegger (especially Being and Time) and their contribution to contemporary theology.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8090 - Proseminar on Current Controversies in Bioethics
Studies controversies regarding research with the embryo and fetus, issues in AIDS prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and requests for assistance with suicide or euthanasia.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8100 - Proseminar in Clinical Ethics
Explores ethical perspectives and clinical decisions, including situation ethics, casuistry, principlism, and feminist perspectives.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8120 - Figures and Traditions in Philosophical and Religious Ethics
A two-semester course that introduces the basic ethical works and theories of central figures in the Western tradition: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bentham, Mill, Buber, Dewey, and Rawls.
Credits: 1 to 3
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RELG 8130 - Figures and Traditions in Philosophical and Religious
A two-semester course that introduces the basic ethical works and theories of central figures in the Western tradition: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bentham, Mill, Buber, Dewey, and Rawls.
Credits: 1 to 3
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RELG 8315 - Trinity
This seminar develops a systematic theology of the doctrine of the Trinity.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8330 - Comparative Religious Ethics
Examines the theoretical and methodological questions underlying comparative studies of religious ethics. Tests several methods in relation to materials from different religious traditions.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8340 - Contemporary Theological Ethics
Examines trends and controversies in contemporary theological ethics. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8350 - Proseminar in Scripture Interpretation and Practice
This one credit seminar introduces students the Scriptural Interpretation and Practice (SIP) program to recent approaches to the comparative study of scriptural sources and scriptural traditions.
Credits: 1
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RELG 8400 - Historiography Seminar in American Religion
Examines current historiographical issues in the interpretation of religion in American history. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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RELG 8559 - New Course in Religious Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of general religion.
Credits: 1 to 6
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RELG 8900 - Pedagogy
This seminar introduces graduate students to practical issues in the teaching of religious studies courses: such as constructing syllabi, planning and composing lectures and class activities, facilitating discussions, and evaluating student writing and other work.
Credits: 1
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HIST 5011 - Documentary Editing: Procedures and Practice
The principles and methods in interpreting and editing historical manuscripts, emphasizing the colonial and early national periods. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5012 - Documentary Editing: Procedures and Practice
The principles and methods in interpreting and editing historical manuscripts, emphasizing the colonial and early national periods. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5031 - Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data
The social scientific approach to historical inquiry, the formulation of theories, and their testing with historical data. Includes extensive directed readings in quantitative history and training in quantitative methods, sampling, the organization of a data-set, and data analysis. Prerequisite: Introductory course in statistics or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5041 - Monticello Internship
Directed research, largely in primary source materials, on topics relating to Jefferson’s estate, life, and times. Directed by senior members of the Monticello staff. A maximum of two students each semester are admitted to the course. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; graduate status or fourth-year undergraduate history majors.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5051 - History, Memory, Subjectivity
Considers a portion of the very extensive, and growing, literature on issues of memory, subjectivity, and historical evidence. ‘Memory’ is taken in a broad sense, to include not only the recall and narrativization of experience but also tradition and commemoration, since in the historical literature these different senses of memory are often mixed together. Students must find their own paper topics, and are encouraged to discuss the course with the instructor in advance.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5061 - Philosophy of History
Examines the theoretical presuppositions of historical research and writing.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5062 - Commerce, Culture, and Consumption in World History
Explores the circulation of goods throughout the world in the early modern and modern periods, and its cultural implications and consequences. Readings approach trade from a number of standpoints, including commodities, traders, trade routes, media of exchange, and consumers. Most major world areas will be represented, but there will be particular emphasis on Europe and its commercial relations with non-European lands and peoples.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5071 - Internship in History: Interpreting African-American Life at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
This internship program, devised and presented by Monticello staff, and offered in conjunction with UVa, is designed for students interested in the interpretation of African-American history to the public. The interns are trained as historical interpreters and to present Monticello’s Plantation Community tour. This walking tour explores Mulberry Row, the center of plantation activity where enslaved African-American families lived and worked, and examines the philosophical issue of Thomas Jefferson and slavery. Lectures, discussions and readings cover the historical content and interpretive techniques that allow interns to develop their individualized Plantation Community tours.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5077 - Pius XII, Hitler, the US and World War II
For the past forty years the role of Pius XII and the Vatican during World War II has been controversial. This seminar will look at that controversy and place it in the context of newly available archival material. The studnets will read severalbooks on both sides of the question and then present their own research papers, the topics of which will be chosen in consultation with the professor.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5091 - Nation-State, National Identity, Collective Memory
A huge scholarly literature now exists on the emergence in the period 1789-1923, of both the idea and the reality of a type of nation-state that claims to be based on, or to require, a unified national identity among its population. Characteristically, such states also worked hard to invent a “collective memory” to underpin the hoped-for identity. This course explores this development, as well as alternative models of political engagement. Prerequisites: Undergraduates must be at least actual 3rd years.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5092 - Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire
Study of how a large empire governed a diverse population, between 1453 and 1918, from the perspective of concerns about recent nationalist, racial and ethnic conflicts in modern nation states. Course 1st examines how the Ottomans managed relations between ethnic and religious groups to 1750, then the reasons for increased communial conflicts after 1750, and their efforts to re-engineer relations among groups along liberal, constitutional lines.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5111 - Slavery in World History
Historical study of ‘slavery’ from very early times through the nineteenth century, on a global scale (including ancient Mediterranean, Islamic world, Africa, Europe, and the Americas).
Credits: 3
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HIST 5131 - The Atlantic Slave Trade
Studies the growth and development of the international slave trade from Africa to the New World from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5291 - History of US Intelligence in the 20th Century and its Impace on Policymaking
The course traces the development of U.S. intelligence activities in the 20th Century. It focuses on the origins, creation, and development of CIA and the U.S. intelligence community and their impact on U.S. policymaking.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5559 - New Course in General History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of general history.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIST 5621 - Genocide
Readings and discussion of the history of genocide and other forms of one-sided, state-sponsored mass killing in the twentieth century.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5891 - South Atlantic History
This class explores the history of the South Atlantic by focusing on Africa and Brazil. It is divided into three major section. The first section consists of a historiographical analysis of concepts such as Atlantic history, African diaspora, and the Black Atlantic. The second section looks at the interaction between Europeans and indigenous people in Brazil and Africa. The last section deals with the abolition of the slavic trade.
Credits: 3
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HIST 5920 - History of Documentary Photography
Examines the history of documentary photography, the work of some of the most significant documentary photographers of the past and the present, and the ethical and theoretical issues which surround documentary practice.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7002 - Graduate Colloquium on World History
Introduces graduate students in History to the growing literature on world history, with emphasis on the epistemology of history, both the usual regional fields and history on broader scales. Supports the qualifying examination fields for the PhD. May be taken, with instructor approval, at any point in the graduate program.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7011 - Atlantic World
Introduces graduate students in all fields of history to their overlapping and complementing aspects in an Atlantic context from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It distinguishes a historical epistemology significantly distinct from, but also integral to, any of its component fields. Thus it supports regional graduate history fields and dissertation research. It also orients students toward development of qualifications to meet the “world history” component of many current teaching positions. Graduate students in other departments may find the colloquium a useful enhancement to their primary academic agendas, as well as for reflection on the relationships of thinking historically to their own academic disciplines. ABDs are welcome to participate in the colloquium as a dissertation-writing workshop.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7051 - Economic History
Extensive directed readings on selected topics, covering both substantive historical literature and relevant theoretical works. Students must write a minimum of two papers during the term.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7061 - Comparative Readings in British America and Latin America Before 1800
Graduate colloquium devoted to comparative readings in colonial Latin America and colonial British America, co-taught by specialists in each of the respective fields. Identifies broad areas of similarity and contrast in the settlement and development of the two colonial societies.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7071 - Methods in Social History
A colloquium open to students in all fields and periods. Examines new approaches, methods, and subject matter in the broad area of social history.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7081 - Colloquium in Methodological Perspectives
Surveys different methodological perspectives currently exhibited in historical scholarship, such as social history, intellectual history, political history, feminist history, and economic history, as reflected in distinctive works of scholarship.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7111 - Modern French Imperialism
Topics in the study of France’s political, social, and cultural influence in Africa and Asia since 1798. Emphasis on indigenous perspectives of those who lived under French colonial rule in the Middle East and North Africa.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7151 - History, Memory, Narrative
Explores how the growing scholarly literature on memory in the last generation changed the way we think about history and the way we write it, if at all. At the center of the course is how the history and narrative of foundational events (the Holocaust, the Indian Partition, 1948 in Palestine, the American Civil War) changed as a result of the growing interest in memory and testimony.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7191 - History of Technology: Theory and Methods
Examines the role of technology in both American history and world history. Readings introduce major issues and methodology. No technical or scientific expertise required.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7201 - History of Environment and Technology
This seminar introduces graduate students to environmental history and the history of technology, with an emphasis on their overlap. Environmental historians study the role of nature in the human past. Historians of technology examine the role of tools in history. This course emphasizes the synthesis of ideas from both fields to help us understand environmental, technological, and social change. Students read, discuss, and write about classic and new works of scholarship.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7231 - Topics in Environmental History
Introduces students to the literature and methods of environmental history from a global perspective. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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HIST 7331 - History of Gender and Sexuality
A survey of recent literature on the history of gender and sexuality from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The class is both comparative and transnational with readings drawn from literatures on the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Credits: 3
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HIST 8002 - Intermediate Research Seminar
A seminar for master’s candidates in non-American fields of history emphasizing individual research projects. Intended to allow students to complete their master’s essays. Provides training in research techniques and general historiographical issues. Prerequisite: An 800-level course or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIST 8011 - Summer Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students needing to meet seminar requirements for the M.A. or Ph.D. degrees during the nine-week summer session. Not open to degree candidates enrolled during the regular academic session. Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies or chair of the department.
Credits: 3
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HIST 8051 - Economic History
In-depth exploration of selected problems in United States economic history. Prerequisite: Some background in economics, particularly micro-economics.
Credits: 3
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HIST 8211 - English Legal Thought
Studies English legal thought in the nineteenth century, particularly the background, opinions, and conception of law held by Blackstone, Bentham, John Austin, Lord Eldon, Sir Henry Maine, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, A.V. Dicey, and F.W. Maitland. (See School of Law listing.)
Credits: 3
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HIST 8212 - English Legal History
Research seminar on topics of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English legal history. Limited (if necessary) to 18, and preference is given (if necessary) to those who have taken English Legal Thought.
Credits: 3
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HIST 8240 - Law: Comparative Contexts, to 1850
Research course on law in comparative, transnational, and imperial contexts, to 1850.
Credits: 3
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HIST 8421 - Writing Transnational History
This seminar will focus on ways of writing about the past that transcend the limitations of strictly national history. Students will be encouraged to develop substantial research projects concerning the movement of individuals, peoples, goods, or ideas across national boundaries or the establishment of transnational and/or colonial relationships, associations, or spaces.
Credits: 3
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HIST 8559 - New Course in General History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of general history.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIST 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 9011 - Advanced Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students preparing for the oral qualifying examination and for the dissertation. Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the graduate program, or permission of the graduate committee.
Credits: 3
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HIST 9012 - Advanced Research Seminar
A general research seminar for students preparing for the oral qualifying examination and for the dissertation. Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the graduate program, or permission of the graduate committee.
Credits: 3
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HIST 9951 - Supervised Research
Normally required of first-year graduate students in the second semester. Reading and/or research in particular fields under supervision of an instructor.
Credits: 3
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HIST 9960 - Independent Research
Independent Research
Credits: 3
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HIST 9961 - Independent Research
Independent Research
Credits: 3
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HIST 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
Credits: 3 to 12
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HIST 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 3 to 12
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LNGS 5000 - Applied Linguistics for Teachers of Foreign Languages
To provide prospective language teachers with the background in descriptive and theoretical linguistics, and thus to enable them to make informed pedagogical decisions, set realistic pedagogical goals, and read scholarship in pedagogy of the type that appears in relevant scholarly journals (eg The Modern Language Journal).
To consider trends in Second Language Acquisition and the relevance thereto of Applied Linguistics in recent years.
Credits: 3
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LNGS 5060 - Syntax and Semantics
Syntax and Semantics
Credits: 3
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LNGS 7010 - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
Linguistic Theory and Analysis
Credits: 3
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LNGS 7020 - Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Studies linguistic change focusing on the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction. Prerequisite: LNGS 701 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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