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Department
Winter '02
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Winter Term 2002 changes and topics:
History 300 - Seminar in Ancient History - cancelled History 314 - Germany, 1914-2000 - cancelled [Professor Burleigh on leave 2001-2002 History 335 - Canada Since 1837 - cancelled [Professor Porter is offering History 374 - History of Southern Africa from the 17th century - instead] History 323 - Ethical Issues and World War II - cancelled [Professor Burleigh on leave 2001-2002 History 329 - The French Monarchy - A history of the French monarchy from the rise of the Capetian dynasty to the fall of the second empire. The course considers the monarchy as a cultural as well as a political institution and addresses topics such as the role of the monarchy in the creation of the French nation-state; the relationship between the king and the nobility; the king as father-figure and the social implications of monarchical paternalism; absolutism and the challenges of modernity; and the ripple effects of competing revolutionary and royalist/imperial legacies in modern French history. Doina Harsanyi, Visiting Professor from UNC Chapel Hill History 349 - The United States Since 1945 - cancelled Professor DeLaney on leave winter 2002] History 364 - Seminar on the Origins of the Constitution - cancelled History 374 - History of Southern Africa from the 17th century - added - Professor Porter History 380 - Japanese Civilization to 1800 - cancelled
Fall Term 2001 changes and topics:
History 103 - Modern China - cancelled [Professor Jeans on leave Fall '01] History 307 - French Revolution and Napoleon - Origins and trajectory of the French Revolution; the execution of the king and the first Republic; the Thermidorian moment; Napoleon and the first empire. This course will integrate social, political and cultural perspectives, and will discuss various interpretations of the Revolution. Doina Harsanyi, Visiting Professor from UNC Chapel Hill History 313 - Germany, 1815-1914 - cancelled [Professor Burleigh on leave '01-'02] History 326 - European Intellectual History, 1880 to the Present - cancelled [Professor Burleigh on leave '01-'02] History 329 - Ideas into Politics. Enlightenment in Europe - The ideas, politics and social/cultural practices of the age of the Enlightenment across Europe. The "new ideas" and the decline of absolutism. The Enlightenment project as gateway to modernity. Doina Harsanyi, Visiting Professor from UNC Chapel Hill History 383 - Imperial China - cancelled [Professor Jeans on leave Fall '01]
Spring Term 2001 changes and topics:
History 115 - Seminar: The Machiavellian Moment - New Course - An examination of the republican vision of history and politics elaborated by Machiavelli in his Prince, Discourses on Livy, and Florentine Histories, in the contexts of preceding humanist thought and the political crises of the late Italian Renaissance. Peterson History 152 - Seminar in American Foreign Relations [Fr-So] - Topic - The Vietnam War History 154 - Seminar in European History and Literature for Freshmen and Sophomores - Cancelled. History 195A - Seminar in Recent American Religious History: Christian Fundamentalism and the Political Right - Topical description - An historical overview of the emergence of organized religious fundamentalism in 20th-century America; the development of fundamentalist political activism from the 1960s to the present on issues such as abortion; school prayer; a perceived decline in American morality; and the convergence of religious fundamentalism with the political right including Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. Dalhouse History 195B - The Near Eastern Question: 1800-2001 - Topical description - Freshmen and Sophomores only - Ottoman Decline and Collapse: Modern Turkey, the Persian Gulf, Balkan and Arab Quagmires. (This course does not cover Israel.) Porter History 322 - Seminar in Russian History: The KGB - Topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. History 321 is recommended though not required. The course examines recent revelations from Russian archives on the workings of the Soviet secret police from the time of the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of the USSR in 1991. The centerpiece of the seminar is analysis of material from the "Mitrokhin Archive" as divulged in the recent voluminous study, THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD: THE MITROKHIN ARCHIVE AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE KGB by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. Seminar meetings are devoted to discussion of assigned readings, and students write a term paper on a topic of their own choosing relating to the Soviet secret police. Bidlack History 324 - Seminar: Totalitarianism - New Course - The evolution of the concept of totalitarianism from the 1920s to the present. Students study some of the classics of the literature, including George Orwell, Carl J. Friedrich, Z. Brezinski, Francois Furet, Karl-Dietrich Bracher, and Hannah Arendt, as well as the political purposes the concept sometimes served during the Cold War. Burleigh. History 329A - Seminar: The Machiavellian Moment - New Course - An examination of the republican vision of history and politics elaborated by Machiavelli in his Prince, Discourses on Livy, and Florentine Histories, in the contexts of preceding humanist thought and the political crises of the late Italian Renaissance. Taught at the advanced level. Peterson History 329B - Operas as Historical Sources - Topical description - A study of how operas reflect the time in which they were written, and also how they present historical figures and events through music and drama. How does opera as an art-form change from its beginnings to the present? How does music enhance our understanding of human characters and their interactions? We will study in detail works such as Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Verdi's Don Carlo, Wagner's Die Meistersinger, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Students will also be required to give presentations on specifically assigned works. Viewing opera videos and films will be an integral part of the course. Parker and Gaylard History 366 - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas - Cancelled (Taught Winter Term '01) History 367 - Violence in the South - Topical Description - A seminar surveying some of the major forms of violence distinctive to the South from 1800 through the first half of the twentieth century. Topics will include honor-related violence (such as dueling among Southern gentry), slave resistance and rebellion, guerilla warfare during the Civil War, rioting, and lynching. Most classes dedicated to discussion of readings. Class participation = fifty percent of the final grade. Students will also write a seminar paper, based on research in primary sources such as newspapers and magazines, on a single violent incident in the South. This paper = the other fifty percent of the final grade. No quizzes, midterm examination, or final examination. Senechal History 369A - The Civil Rights Movement - Topical Description - An intensive study of the Civil Rights movement from Brown v. Board of Education through Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The objective is to identify and analyze the issues and changes in the Civil Rights movement from 1954 through 1978. DeLaney History 369B - Topics in U.S. Social History - Topical Description - Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor - The history of gay and lesbian life in 20th century America. Nineteenth century romantic friendships; the invention of homosexuality; World War I; building communities; the 1930's, a worried decade; World War II; the 1950's: repression and growth; the 1960's: toward Stonewall; Gay liberation; the Aids Crisis, the >90's: assimilation or affirmation? N.B. This course is offered on a trial basis in a seminar format; it will not be a self-paced course. McAhren History 369C - History of Sport in America - Machado
Winter Term 2001 changes: History 329A - Ethical Issues and World War II - new course - An
examination of the key moral questions which arose immediately before,
during and after World War II. These will include Anglo-French appeasement
in the 1930s; the Nazi temptation and the responses of the Christian churches;
the dilemmas of Jewish people and their leaderships in occupied Europe;
moral self-righteousness and mass murder; the ethics of area bombing; Allied
repatriation of prisoners of war to Communist controlled countries; revenge
and retribution; the comparability of Nazi and Soviet criminality. - Burleigh
Fall Term 2000 changes: History 100 - European Civilization, 325-1517 - new course - An introductory
survey, featuring lectures and discussions of European culture, politics,
religion and social life, and of Europe's relations with neighboring societies,
from the rise of Christianity in Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages
and the Italian Renaissance, to the beginnings of the 16th century Protestant
and Catholic Reformations - Peterson
Spring Term 2000 changes: History 150 - Seminar in American History - Topic this spring: Thomas
Jefferson - Merchant
Winter Term 2000 changes: History 302 - Europe in the Late Middle Ages, 1198-1500 - New course
- Examines, through lectures and discussions, the high medieval papacy,
the rise of new lay religious movements, Franciscans and Dominicans, dissent
and heresy, the inquisition, Jews and minorities, the rise of universities,
scholasticism and humanism, the development of law, Parliament and constitutionalism,
the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the papal schism and conciliarism,
gender roles, family structures and child rearing, Europe's relations with
Islam and Byzantium, and the rise of commerce, cities and urban values,
as well as of the "new monarchies." Peterson.
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