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Graduate Record 2011-2012 
    
Graduate Record 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

Course Descriptions


 

History of Art and Architecture

  
  • ARAH 9565 - Seminar in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics


    Investigates problems in architecture theory, comparative, and other topics



    Credits: 3
  
  • ARAH 9570 - Seminar in the Architecture of the Americas


    Investigates problems in architecture of the Americas



    Credits: 3
  
  • ARAH 9575 - Seminar in the Art of the Americas


    Investigates problems in art of the Americas



    Credits: 3
  
  • ARAH 9580 - Seminar in the Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia


    Investigates problems in architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia



    Credits: 3
  
  • ARAH 9585 - Seminar in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia


    Investigates problems in art of East, South, and Southeast Asia



    Credits: 3
  
  • ARAH 9590 - Seminar in the Architecture of Africa or Islam


    Investigates problems in architecture of Africa or Islam



    Credits: 3
  
  • ARAH 9595 - Seminar in the Art of Africa or Islam


    Investigates problems in art of Africa or Islam.



    Credits: 3
  
  • ARAH 9995 - Supervised Research


    Supervised Research



    Credits: 3 to 12
  
  • ARAH 9998 - Non-Topical Rsch,Doctoral Prep


    For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.



    Credits: 1 to 12
  
  • ARAH 9999 - Non-Topical Research, Doctoral


    For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.



    Credits: 3 to 12

History-African History

  
  • HIAF 5559 - New Course in African History


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • HIAF 7001 - The History and Historiography of Africa


    Taught for graduate students with no previous experience in African history; consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of HIAF 201, 202, and weekly discussions devoted to more detailed examination of the technical and interpretive problems in writing African history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIAF 7002 - The History and Historiography of Africa


    Taught for graduate students with no previous experience in African history; consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of HIAF 201, 202, and weekly discussions devoted to more detailed examination of the technical and interpretive problems in writing African history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIAF 7031 - History and Historiography of North Africa, ca. 1800-Present


    Introduces the literature on North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) from the precolonial period to the postcolonial era. An intensive readings and discussion colloquium devoted to the major issues in the region’s political, economic, social, and cultural history, and to the issues raised by colonial historiography. Prerequisite: HIME 201, 202.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIAF 7559 - New Course in African History


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • HIAF 8002 - Graduate Seminar in Modern African History


    Graduate seminar introducing research in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Africa, for students in History as well as in other departments wishing historical framing for their degree work. Prerequisites: Consultation with instructor.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIAF 8011 - African History


    Advanced research in African history. Topics vary with student and instructor interest.



    Credits: 3

History-East Asian History

  
  • HIEA 5151 - Mao and the Chinese Revolution


    This course, an advanced reading seminar, provides an in-depth investigation of one of the most significant, yet destructive, revolutions in human history–the Chinese Communist revolution, as well as the person who led the revolution–Mao Zedong.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 5559 - New Course in East Asian History


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • HIEA 7011 - Traditional East Asian History


    Offered to graduate students with no previous background in East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level of the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 7021 - Traditional East Asian History


    Offered to graduate students with no previous background in East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level of the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 7031 - Modern East Asian History


    Offered to graduate students with no previous background in modern East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on modern East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level on the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 7041 - Modern East Asian History


    Offered to graduate students with no previous background in modern East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on modern East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level on the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 7061 - Modern Chinese History


    Research and writing on selected topics in modern Chinese history, emphasizing the period since 1919.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 7559 - New Course in East Asian History


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • HIEA 8011 - East Asian History


    Directed readings, discussions, and research papers on selected topics in Chinese and Japanese history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 8021 - East Asian History


    Directed readings, discussions, and research papers on selected topics in Chinese and Japanese history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 8111 - Traditional Chinese History


    Studies documents related to social and political philosophy. Emphasizes translated texts, but some attention will be paid to Chinese texts and the problems of translation.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 8211 - Japanese History


    Discusses selected issues in the social, political, and economic development of Japan from the Tokugawa period to the present.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEA 8559 - New Course in East Asian History


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.



    Credits: 1 to 4

History-European History

  
  • HIEU 5001 - Dark Age Greece


    Examines the structural, political, and conceptual rise of the Greek polis and explores other aspects of the archaeology, art, history, and literature of the ‘iron age’ and early archaic period (1000-600 BC) in Greece. Prerequisite: HIEU 203 or equivalent



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5011 - Late Archaic Greece


    Examines the history of Greece in the late archaic age down to the end of the Persian wars. Prerequisite: HIEU 203 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5021 - Greece in the Fifth Century


    Examination of the political, diplomatic, and social history of Greece from the end of the Persian Wars in 479 b.c. to the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404/3 b.c. Investigates the origins, course, and importance of the latter war, the major watershed in classical Greek history. Prerequisite: HIEU 203 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5031 - Greece in the Fourth Century


    Advanced course in Greek history that examines in detail the social and economic history of Greece from the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 b.c. to the defeat of the Greek city-states at Chaeronea in 338. Prerequisite: HIEU 204 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5041 - Roman Republic


    Studies the expansion of Rome from city-state to world empire to the death of Caesar. Prerequisite: HIEU 204 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5051 - Roman Empire


    Studies the founding and institutions of the Principate, the Dominate, and the decline of antiquity. Prerequisite: HIEU 204 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5061 - Roman Imperialism


    Examines Roman transmarine expansion to determine how and why it happened, and what consequences it had, both in Rome and abroad. Prerequisite: HIEU 204 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5072 - Modern Theory


    For students with previous knowledge of philosophy, political, or sociological theory, or religious studies. Discusses three or four major nineteenth- or twentieth-century theorists in depth. Prerequisite: One 300-level course in intellectual history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5082 - Modernity and History


    Surveys a range of philosophers and other writers who have reflected on the role of history in modern life. Prerequisite: Upper class standing or above, with one or more courses in relevant theory



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5101 - Early Christian Thought


    Intensive consideration of a selected issue, movement or figure in Christian thought of the second through fifth centuries. Prerequisite: RELC 205 or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5111 - Early Medieval England


    A documentary history of English society from the late Saxon period to the reign of King John.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5131 - Medieval France


    Societies and governments in medieval Francia from the 11th century to the 14th.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5141 - Thucydides


    A team-taught course reading Thucydides in ancient Greek, with attention to his style, the structure of his work, its literary qualities, and scholarly controveries about the author. Meets twice a week: one session to read the text together in the Greek, and the other to consider the historical and historiographical issues to which the text gives rise, with readings in modern scholarly literature.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5181 - Historians in the Middle Ages


    Discusses how prominent Latin writers of the medieval period looked at the past.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5191 - War and Society in the Middle Ages


    A documentary history of warfare in Western Europe from the 9th century to the 16th with a discussion of its effect on the political, economic, social, and religious development of the emerging nation states.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5201 - The Culture of the Renaissance


    Surveys the writing of humanists who lived between 1300 and 1600. Topics include the contributions of humanists to the history of education, political theory, religion, gender relations, and artistic theory. Authors include Petrarch, Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Erasmus. Prerequisite: Undergraduates require instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5211 - Early Modern Germany, 1350-1750


    Studies late medieval politics, economy, and culture, including the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Wars of Religion; pietism and the baroque.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5221 - English Social History, 1550-1800


    Provides a survey of major themes in English social history, examining agriculture, rural community structures, demography, urban life, religious, political, and legal practices, popular culture, and relations between men and women. Prerequisite: undergraduates by instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5241 - The Carolingian World


    Addresses the political, social and cultural history of continental Western Europe in the period c. 700 to 850. Prerequisite: minimum of one course in pre-modern European history, preferably in medieval history, or instruction permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5261 - Russian History to 1700


    Selected topics in the evolution of the Russian peoples to the reign of Peter the Great. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5302 - Nationality, Ethnicity, and Race in Modern Europe


    Colloquium on how categories of human identity have been conceived, applied, and experienced in Western and Eastern Europe from 1789 to the present. Topics include the construction of identities, national assimilation, inter-confessional conflict, colonialism, immigration, and the human sciences. Prerequisite: One course in modern European history or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5312 - Era of the World Wars, 1914-1945


    A study of the major countries of Europe in the era 1914-1945, with special attention to international relations, and political, economic, and social developments. Most suitable for third- and fourth- year students with some background in European history and for graduate students.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5332 - The German World After 1918


    Studies the problems in German politics and society, including those of Austria, Switzerland, and such border areas as Alsace-Lorraine, Luxemburg, and the German regions of Czechoslovakia.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5352 - The British Economy Since 1850


    Studies the structure, performance and policy in the British economy since 1850, focusing on the causes and consequences of Britain’s relative economic decline. Cross listed as ECON 507.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5362 - British History Since 1760


    Readings and discussion on selected topics in British history since the reign of George III. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5372 - British History Since 1760


    Readings and discussion on selected topics in British history since the reign of George III. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5382 - The British Empire


    The history of British expansion over four centuries, moving between the history of the imperial center, and the stories of encounter, settlement, violence, resistance, and of the transformation of lifeways and identity, at the American, Asian, African, and Pacific peripheries of British influence.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5452 - The History of Twentieth-Century Europe, 1900-1941


    An intensive study of monograph literature dealing with the first half of the 20th century, concentrating on some major problems that have incited scholarly controversy.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5462 - The History of Twentieth-Century Europe Since 1941


    An intensive study of the monographic literature dealing with controversial issues in European history since World War II.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5559 - New Course in European History


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • HIEU 5612 - The Age of Reform and Revolution in Russia, 1855-1917


    Addresses the social and political effects of efforts to modernize and industrialize Russia, which led to the growth of political and revolutionary opposition and the overthrow of the monarchy.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5622 - Russia Since 1917


    Readings and discussion of the causes for the collapse of the Tsarist regime and the triumph of the Bolsheviks. Examines the development of the Soviet state. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5642 - Russian and Soviet Diplomatic History


    An examination, through readings and discussion, of aspects of Soviet diplomatic history between the wars; attempts by the revolutionary regime to overthrow the capitalist states and to coexist with them; and the road to World War II. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5662 - Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History


    Readings and discussion of seminal Russian intellectuals and their ideas under the later Romanov Tsars. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5672 - Russian Social History


    Readings and discussion on selected topics in Russian social history during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5722 - Germany 1500-2000


    A comparison of topics from early modern German history with their modern manifestations. Topics such as the history of warfare, death, religion, politics, intellectual life, and the economy are considered. Prerequisite: Advanced undergraduates with prior coursework in European History or graduate status.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5732 - European Social History


    Reading and discussion of the evolution of private life, emphasizing methodology and the interpretation of sources in social history. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5752 - Evolution of the International System, 1815-1950


    Studies the evolution of great-power politics from the post-Napoleonic Congress of Vienna and the systems of Metternich and Bismarck to the great convulsions of the twentieth century and the Russo-American Cold War after World War II. Covers same thematic material as HIEU 375 on a more intensive level. Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5772 - History of Modern Science


    Reading and discussion on selected topics in the history of the natural and social science since 1600.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5791 - European Intellectual History


    Reading, discussion, and papers on selected topics in European intellectual history to 17th century. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 5792 - European Intellectual History


    Reading, discussion, and papers on selected topics in European intellectual history since the 17th century. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7001 - Colloquium in Medieval European History


    The first semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century and structured around central themes in medieval history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7002 - Colloquium in Early Modern European History


    The second semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century and structured around central themes in early modern European history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7003 - Colloquium in Modern European History I


    The first semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period from the eighteenth century to the present and structured around central themes in European history between c. 1750 and c. 1870.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7004 - Colloquium in Modern European History II


    The second semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century to the present and structured around central themes in European history c. 1870.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7011 - Historiography


    Introduces the theory of historiography. Examines various works of historiographical theory (Collingwood, Veyne, Ricoeur, and others), bringing them to bear on a sampling of historical writing.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7012 - Roman Religion


    Examines the institutions, practices, and attitudes associated with Roman religion, focusing chiefly on aspects of Roman religion as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and devoting itself primarily to the Republican and early imperial periods. Cross listed as LATI 706.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7013 - Anthropology of Ancient Greece


    A survey of anthropological methods useful for the study of the past: simultaneously an economic introduction to the Great Books of anthropology, to a prominent aspect of contemporary classical scholarship, and to the opportunities and problems presented by using the methods of one field to illuminate another.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7014 - Ancient History


    Introduces non-literary materials of use to the historian in correcting and/or amplifying the literary record, including inscriptions, papyri, coins, etc.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7071 - Fragmentary Roman Historians


    This class reads the many fragments of Roman Republican historians and learns how to analyze them from three perspectives: linguistic (including textual problems); literary; and historical. Why did early Romans, many of them active statesmen and generals, write history? What themes are perceptible in their surviving fragments? What was the historical context of the author, and what was the historical contribution of his work?



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7111 - Medieval History


    Reading and discussion of selected topics in medieval history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7211 - The Renaissance


    Studies European politics and society from the commercial revolution to Cateau Cambresis.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7221 - The Age of Reformation


    Surveys current problems in the history of the religion, science, philosophy, politics, economics, and social structure. Covers Europe (especially England, France, Germany, and Italy), 1350-1750.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7231 - Early Modern Europe


    A colloquium on central topics of European history, 1400-1789, emphasizing developments in social, political, economic, and cultural history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7241 - Popular Religion 1300-1800


    Traditionally, the history of religion was limited to the study of formal theology and ecclesiastical institutions. It has now become common to ask what the religious ideas and experience of ordinary people was, and to examine the connection between formal dogma and lay piety. Course introduces some of the most exciting works of this new direction and establishes bridges between history and religious studies, between the late medieval and early modern periods, and between intellectual and social history. Cross-listed as RELC 724.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7261 - Early Modern England


    Readings and discussion on special topics in the period 1485 to 1760.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7271 - Early Modern Inquisitions


    Close examination of the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions: their initial and later targets, the theological and legal premises on which they operated, the ways in which modern scholars can use surviving Inquisition records. Prerequisite: Graduate students or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7291 - Modern European Social History


    A comparative approach to major changes and problems in political, social, and cultural history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7301 - History of Science


    Introduces the historiography of science, and especially to new approaches which integrate the history of the natural and social sciences into intellectual, social, political, and economic history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7311 - The Enlightenment


    Intensive reading and discussion of the primary and secondary literature.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7321 - Europe in the Eighteenth Century and Revolutionary Period


    Intensive readings on Europe, 1715-1799, emphasizing the origins of the French Revolution.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7331 - The Fortune of Gender in Early Modern Europe


    After tracing the emergence in the 1790s of the history of women and a decade later the history of gender as coherent modes of investigation, we shall examine recent developments and tensions in these fields by discussing important monographs and collections of essays.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7351 - Modern France


    A reading course devoted to the historiography of France 1700. Emphasizes recent trends in the literature. Prerequisite: HIEU 350 or equivalent.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7356 - Victorian England


    Selected topics in the history of England from 1815 to the late 19th century.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7391 - Europe Since 1789


    Intensive reading and discussion of topics in comparative European history since 1789.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7401 - Nineteenth-Century Europe


    Intensive reading and discussion of the secondary literature.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7451 - Twentieth-Century Europe


    Intensive reading in selected topics, emphasizing new or emerging nations in Europe.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7471 - European Economic History


    Intensive reading and discussion of topics in European economic history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIEU 7559 - New Course in European History


    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.



    Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • HIEU 7611 - Russia 1894-1917


    Russia in the revolutionary era, 1894-1917. Study of Russian society, its institutions, culture, and the revolutionary forces confronting the Tsarist regime in the reign of Nicholas II.



    Credits: 3
 

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