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Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
History (HIST)

Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000. This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar (reg@rice.edu).

NOTE: Course web pages are available for some HIST courses.



HIST 102   EUROPE'S FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, 1815 TO PRE Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Hist 101. May take courses separately. Recommended for Freshmen
and Sophomores. Offered with additional work as Hist 302.
001 TBA                                 Zammito, John H.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 118   THE UNITED STATES,1877-PRESENT           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A continuation of Hist 117 (though 117 is not a prerequisite) from the
Reconstruction to the present.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 142   FRESHMAN SEMINAR:MURDER TRIALS IN BRITAI Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Major murder trials have raised large questions about personal responsibility,
social relationships, balancing public safety and personal liberty, and
determining guilt and innocence.  Such trials have frequently thrown a
spotlight onto the darker corners of British and American society.  A select
number of these trials will be explored as windows into their worlds.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: 15

HIST 151   FRESHMAN SEMINAR:RECORDING THE PAST IN H Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of how historical texts and moving images offer different
approaches to understanding the past.  Includes the relationships of evidence,
narrative method and authorial intent in both media as well as discussion of
films and ancient and modern historical works.
Prereq- see instructor by first class meeting.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 152   FRESHMAN SEM IN ANCIENT HIST             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The Hero and his Companion from Gilgamesh to Sam Spade.  How does presentation
of heroic action illustrate the basic values of a society? Through
consideration as historical sources of several ancient texts, modern mystery
stories, and two "western" movies, we will see the development of a style of
community service that links heroism with alienation. The extent to which women
participate will be traced. Limited enrollment. Permission of instructor
required.
001 TBA - W 07:00PM - 10:00PM           Maas, Michael R.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 207   GREEK CIVILIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION      Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This class will present an introduction to and overview of the great literary,
artistic and intellectual monuments of classical Greek civilization from Homer
and the bronze age through the golden age of classical Athens to the spread of
Greek culture in the Hellenistic world.  The historical background will be
covered.  Readings will consist mainly of primary sources.  Two lectures and
one discussion per week.  No prerequisites.
Also offered as CLAS 207
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 212   AMER THOUGHT&SOCIETY II                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A topical introductory survey of nineteenth and twentieth century American
history, primarily concerned with intellectual and social developments
underlying the surface of events. Offered with additional work as Hist 312.
001 TBA                                 Haskell, Thomas L.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 214   CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will focus on the slow, steady process through which nation states
emerged in the Caribbean from the 18th century to the present, as well as the
difficulties they face amidst increasing globalization.  Offered with additionl
work as Hist 314.
Also offered as RELI 214
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM         Cox, Edward L.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 220   CONTEMPORARY CHINA                       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This introductory ("foundational") course is designed to encourage creative
ways of thinking about "Cultural China"--a broad-ranging concept that includes
the People's Republic, the newly established Special Administrative Region
(SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese
communities throughout the world.  The course will be team-taught and will
employ a number of different media, including not only printed texts but also
films, videotapes, slides, and materials on the world-wide web.  It will
involve group projects (emphasizing cooperation rather than competition),
wide-ranging discussions, and a number of interesting guest lecturers,
including Wang
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 222   JAPANESE HISTORY II: MODERN JAPAN        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Over the last two hundred years, the people of Japan have adopted western
dress, waged three international wars, experienced the atom bomb, and built one
of the world's leading economies.  This survey of ninetheenth- and
twentieth-century Japan examines the political, economic, and social forces
that have shaped these events.  Offerd with additional work as Hist 422.
001 TBA                                 Thal, Sara                Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 232   THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course surveys the transformation of Africa from the late 19th century to
the present. The topics covered include: Europe and Africa in the 19th century;
the scramble for and the partition of Africa; the evolution of the colonial
state; economic change in the 20th century;  plantation and peasant
agriculture, mining and industrialization, wage and migrant labour, African
capitalism, rural differentiation, the roots of hunger and poverty; social
change in the 20th Century:  the invention of ethnic identity; the emergence of
the elites; cultural policies--language, leisure; the changing roles of women;
relilgion and cultural resistances; the rival conceptions of law and order,
changes in
001 TBA                                 Odhiambo, Atieno S.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 241   A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A study of the social, economic, and political history of American women from
pre-colonial times to the present.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 250   CHINESE CULTURE                          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and
social customs of China. Offered with additional work as Hist 450.
001 TBA - TTH 02:30AM - 03:50AM         Smith, Richard J.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 260   SOCI IMPACT INDUS REVOLUTIONS            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
From the reign of Elizabeth I to the reign of Elizabeth II, this course
explores the history of women and gender in England.  Looking expecially at
critical moments in politics, economics, medicine, and literary expression,
this course investigates the changes in women's experience from an era of
privileged aristocracy and pre-industrial labor to the varied employment and
mass politics of the twentieth century.  In the Early Modern and the Modern
periods, gender boundaries and changing gender definitions shaped the
experiences of women as leaders, writers, workers and members of English
society.  This course explores issues in lectures, discussions, and analyses of
primary sources.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 262   HISTORY OF BRITAIN, 1815-PRESENT         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of Britain's takeoff into the industrial revolution, its adaptation
to  the flourishing of the empire, and its 20th-century geopolitical and
economic decline.  Includes the use of novels, biographies, and other materials
to examine these transformations.  Offered with additional work as Hist 362.
001 TBA                                 Wiener, Martin J.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 274   MEDIEVAL & MODERN JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Hist 273/373. The Jews' expulsion from Spain to the
establishment  of the state of Israel. Life is western and eastern Europe as
well as in Islamic countries, seen from the perspective of settlement,
assimilation, and the particularities of the Jewish historical experience.
Lecture and discussion of primary sources in translation. Offered with
additional work as Hist 374.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 278   ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY 1914-PRES Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course surveys the history and culture of the Arab world as it has
developed from World War to the present. Themes covered are nationalism,
colonialism and orientalism, as they have been understood and discussed in the
contemporary Arab world through debates about the question of Palestine, the
status of women and the rise of modern Islamic politics. Offered with
additional work as Hist 378.
001 TBA                                 Makdisi, Ussama           Enr: 0 Max: 40

HIST 291   MODERN EUROPEAN CULTURAL  HISTORY        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This survey of the main developments in modern
European cultural history
combines reverence with irreverence. We will focus on
the intellectual,
literary, and artistic dimensions of such cultual movements
as the
Enlightenment, Romanticism, Bohemianism, Surrealism, Modernism, and
the
film age. We will frequently visit Houston museums and art
installations.
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Wolin, Richard            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 294   WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The theory, practice, and experience of war in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.  Reading includes selections from Clausewitz and Liddell Hart.
Offered with additional work as Hist 394.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 295   THE AMERICAN SOUTH                       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introductory survey of the history of the American South, from the
development of Native American cultures to the present. A lecture-reading
course, it will emphasize social, cultural, and intellectual history, with much
attention to the origins and development of slavery and the plantation economy,
the rise of southern distinctiveness, Civil War and Reconstruction,
sharecropping, political reform, the civil rights movement, the rise of the
Sunbelt, southern religion, music, and literature, and the future of southern
regionalism. Offered with additional work as Hist 395.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 298   CONST & LEGAL HIST OF U.S. II            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the development of American law from Reconstuction to the
present.  This course examines the ways in whcih law shaped and was shaped by
major transformations in economy, society, and political culture: emancipation,
industrialization, progressive reform, the New Deal, race-and gender-based
movements for civil rights, and the "crisis" of postmodernism.  Major themes
include the legal response to industrialization, the emergence of new
conceptions of individual rights, and the legal underpinnings of the modern
liberal state.  Readings include legal materials (cases, statues, treatises),
as well as major monographic interpretations.  History 297/397 is not a
001 TBA                                 Wilson, Steven            Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 300   INDEPENDENT STUDIES                      Credits   Spring 00
Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 302   EUROPE'S FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, 1815 TO PRE Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 102.  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
102 and 302. Recommended for Juniors and Seniors.
001 TBA                                 Zammito, John H.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 304   UNDERGRAD INDEPENDENT READING            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Independent reading under the supervision of a faculty member.  Open to a
limited number of advanced students with special permission.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 307   IMPERIAL ROME FROM CAESAR TO DIOCLETIAN  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
How did Rome acquire, maintain, and understand her empire?  This course
considers the development of a political, social, and ideological system fitted
to an empire reaching from Scotland to Mesopotamia during the three centuries
of Rome's greatest power.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 308   THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from
Diocletian to the rise of Islam,  with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of
the Mediterranean world and the formation of Byzantine society in the Greek
East.
001 TBA                                 Maas, Michael R.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 310   CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 220 (and Anth 220).  Students may not receive
credit credit for both Hist 220 and Hist 310 (or Anth 220/310 or any
combination thereof).
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 312   AMERICAN THOUGHT & SOCIETY II            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 212.  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
212 and 312.
001 TBA                                 Haskell, Thomas L.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 313   THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Mexico is run today by politicians who see themselves as the heirs to the
1910-1917 revolution.  Yet their authorization government rules Mexico in
nearly the same way as did the dictatorships they ousted.  This lecture and
discussion course will examine the roots of the Mexican Revolution, the
development of the coalitions of peasants, workers, and middle-class
politicians that participated in the conflict and the slow institutionalization
that followed.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 314   CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Enriched version of Hist 214. May not receive credit for both Hist 214
and 314.
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM         Cox, Edward L.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 318   THE UNITED STATES,1877-PRESENT           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 118. Students may not receive credit for both Hist
118 and 318.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 319   SLAVERY & FREEDOM IN AMERICA, 1830-1880  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will focus on the political, environmental and social impacts of
technology on urban growth in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.  We
will devote particular attention to the city-building process, urban
technology, public works and city services, and environmental conditions.
001 TBA                                 Dailey, Jane E.           Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 321   SCIENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of the radical transformation in content, method, and institutional
setting of Greek science (which was assimilated during the High Middle Ages)
between 1400 and 1700.  Includes Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes,
Newton, and others, viewed within the general cultural history of this period.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 322   PHY.SCI FROM NEWTON - EINSTEIN           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A survey of the physical science from the establishment of the Newtonian world
view, Ca. 1700, to its breakdown in the twentieth century.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 323   MEDIEVAL SLAVERY IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSP Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Examination of the social category of the unfree, including captives, slaves,
and serfs as well as eunuchs, concubines, and military slaves in European and
Islamic societies. We will also trace the evolution of the justifications of
slavery and consider the factors favoring a growing association of slavery with
race.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 324   WOMEN IN GREECE AND ROME                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
A survey of the depiction of women in Greek and Roman mythology, literature and
art together with study of the "real" lives of Greek and Roman women as
evidenced by archaeological as well as literary materials.
Also offered as CLAS 322
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 329   1ST EURO EXPANSION, 1492-1640            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
This will be a course covering the comparative history of the English, French,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch expansion into the New World, Africa, and Asia.
Topics will include the changing nature of empire, and the status of the
principal rationales for colonization including "just war" and conversion.
001 TBA                                 Seed, Patricia            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 330   U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY               Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will trace the history of human interaction with the American
environment from colonial times to the present.  Topics will include
colonization, westward expansion, industrialization, conservation and
environmentalism as we discuss five centuries of both reckless exploitation and
efforts to restore harmony between humans and the natural world.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 333   GALILEO IN CONTEXT                       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is usually remembered as one
of the founders of modern science and a martyr who was condemned for his
scientific ideas.  In this course we will examine his life and work in the
context of European science at the turn of the seventeenth century and the
culture of the absolutist courts in Italy.  Subjects covered in depth include
experimentation, the role of mathematics in science, Galileo's celestial
discoveries with the telescope, and his trial.  Class time will be devoted as
much as possible to discussions of Galileo's writings. Students will be
expected to familiarize themselves with the Galileo network project, use it as
an information resource and
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 334   HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A lecture and discussion course dealing with topics in the history of astronomy
and cosmology from Antiquity to the 20th century.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 335   CARIBBEAN HISTORY TO 1838                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
History of the Caribbean from the arrival of Europeans to the abolition of
slavery in the British West Indies in 1838.  Focus will be on the social and
economic history of the region during this period.  Why did slavery and the
plantation system emerge?  Why did they fall?
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 336   CARIBBEAN HISTORY: 1838 TO THE PRESENT   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Social, economic, and political history of the people from the abolition of
slavery to the emergence of independent nations in the modern era.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 337   TWILIGHT OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Were the late Middle Ages (14th-15th C.) a distinct culture, dazzling, bloody,
and anarchic, or merely a way station  between the High Middle Ages and the
early modern world?  Here we will study some aspects of the age, including the
Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, Burgundian court life, and the early
Renaissance.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 340   VICTORIAN INTELLECTUALS                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of the upheaval in late 19th-century social thought and culture caused in
part by Darwin's theory of evolution, with emphasis on American readings, using
English and continental writers for comparsion. May include Spencer, Veblen,
Henry Adams, William James, Dewey, Matthew Arnold, and Nietzsche.
001 TBA                                 Haskell, Thomas L.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 342   MODERN CHINA                             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of HIST 341.  Includes China's revolutionary transformation in the
19th and 20th centuries, from the Ch'ing dynasty to the People's Republic. May
take HIST 341 and 342  separately.
001 TBA                                 Smith, Richard J.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 345   EARLY MODERN EUROPE:HUMANISM & EXPANSION Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of major cultural developments in Western Europe from the rise of
Italian humanism in the 14th Century to European conquest and expansion in the
16th century.
001 TBA                                 Quillen, Carol E.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 349   WOMEN & GENDER IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of the political and cultural discussions concerning the so-called
"Woman Question" in 19th century Europe.  Includes the role of public and
private legal rights in republicanism and the early feminist movement, the
reformulation of notions of gender quality in the context of 19th century
socialist movements and the challenges to gender identity posed by cultural
modernism at the end of the century.
001 TBA                                 Caldwell, Peter C.        Enr: 0 Max: 15

HIST 351   MAO ZEDONG&CHINESE REVOLUTION            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of major economic, social and political developments in the United
States since 1945.
001 TBA                                 Matusow, Allen J.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 355   MODERN GERMANY                           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of German history from the crisis of the monarchical regime before
World War I to the unification of East and West Germany in  1989-90, with
emphasis on political attempts to come to terms with challenges posed by
organized capitalism by the political demands of the working classes, and by
advanced technology.  Includes the dictatorship of World War I, Weimar
democracy and the welfare state, the National Socialist revolution, and the
West German model of a welfare state under law vs. the East German model of
"real, existing socialism."
Also offered as HUMA 330
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 360   GENDER&SEXUALITY-MOD FREN HIST           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of gender roles, gender ideology, and sexual practices in the
construction of French society and culture from the Enlightenment to World War
II.  Topics to be examined include:  sexual politice & the emergent notion of
the "public sphere" in the 18th century; masculine & feminine images of the
state during the Revolutionary period; feminist discourses & politics in 1789,
1848, and in the campaign for women's suffrage; family structures, patriarchy,
& notions of property.  Readings will include novels and memoirs as well as
historical works.  Taught in English; some readings may be done in French.
Also offered as FREN 360
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 362   MODERN BRITISH HISTORY, 1830-2000        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 262.  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
262 and Hist 362.
001 TBA                                 Wiener, Martin J.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 364   IMPERIAL SPLENDOR MADE IN AUSTRIA: THE H Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the Habsburg dynasty
ruling Austria from 1278-1918.  The course will analyze those forces which
brought the collapse of the mulinational, dynastic state of the Habsburgs at
the beginning of the twentieth century and those which held it together through
the end of the nineteenth.  Special emphasis will be placed on the diverse
cultural manifestations in music, architecture, fine arts, and literature that
made Austria a leading force in European cultural history.
Also offered as GERM 361
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 365   WOMEN & CONFLICT IN 20TH CENTURY EUROPE  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An investigation of the causes, process, and consequences of the American
Revolution.  Special emphasis will be placed on the reasons why colonial
Americans rebelled, on the character of the War for American Independence, and
on the constitutional settlement of 1787 and the securing of fundamental
liberties.
001 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 366   HISTORY OF MODERN BRAZIL                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Latin America's largest and most economically powerful nation, Brazil boasts a
history that is quite distinct from the histories of its Spanish American
neighbors.  This lecture and discussion course will examine Brazil's history
from its peaceful independence declaration in 1822 to its present struggles to
create a democratic society in the aftermath of a twenty-year military
dictatorship.  We will pay close attention to Brazil's legacy as the world's
largest slave holding society in the nineteenth century, its struggle to
conquer its huge territory, and the interaction of those factors in shaping its
national identity.
001 TBA                                 Wolfe, Joel               Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 370   EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: BACON TO  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Survey of major thinkers and intellectual movements from the scientific
revolution to the French Revolution.  Includes the use of primary and secondary
sources to establish the main contours of philosophical, political, and
cultural expression and to relate them to their historical context.
001 TBA                                 Zammito, John H.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 372   SOCIETY & POLITICS IN MODERN FRANCE, 187 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The emergence of Modern France:  the impact of war, industrialization,
imperialism, and cultural mastery.
Also offered as FREN 372
001 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 374   MEDIEVAL & MODERN JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Hist 373. Enriched version of Hist 274. May not receive credit
for both Hist 274 and 374.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 375   EUROPEAN ROMANICISM 1750-1850            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will investigate the emergence, triumph and defeat of Romanticism
as a major cultural force in European history.  We will focus on national and
epochal diversity within Romanticism, considering the British, German and
French cases.  Major literary figures for consideration are Rousseau, Goethe,
Schiller, Schlegel, Schelling, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Stendhal, Hugo and
Baudelaire.  The course will try to incorporate the music and art of
Romanticism as well.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 378   THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1914 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 278. May not receive credit for both Hist 278 and 378.
001 TBA                                 Makdisi, Ussama           Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 380   HISTORY OF MOD POLI THOUGHT              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
We will examine the rise and fall of three major intellectual paradigms in
postwar France--existential humanism, poststructuralism, and neoliberalism--as
they relate to broader themes of French political and cultural history.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 382   CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURE                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the culture and religion of the Islamic world from the 9th
through the 14th centuries.  Topics include Islamic law and theology,
philosophy, ritual, Islamic science and medicine, classical Arabic literature,
the impact of Arabo-Islamic culture on Jewish and Christian cultures of the
Islamic world.
001 TBA                                 Sanders, Paula            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 384   AFRICAN SOC HIST C.1800-1960             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of the Crusades (11th to 15th centuries) from the point of view of
both Christian Europe and the Islamic Near East.  Includes the political and
military history of the Crusades, as well as the social, cultural and religious
transformations that caused, and were wrought by, these conflicts.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 394   WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 294.  Students may not receive credit for both 294
and Hist 394.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 395   THE AMERICAN SOUTH                       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 295. Students may not receive credit for both Hist
295 and 395.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 398   CONS & LEGAL HIST OF U.S. II             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 298.  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
298 and 398.
001 TBA                                 Wilson, Steven            Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 404   SENIOR THESIS                            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Continuation of Hist 403, which is prerequisite for enrollment.  Completion of
this course is required to obtain credit for Hist 403.
001 TBA                                 Zammito, John H.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 410   KENYA IN MODERN HISTORY                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will trace the path of the transformation of Kenya from tribal
societies to a modern state.  A background survey of the  migrations,
settlement and emergence of precolonial societies will be provided.  The
underlying cultural unities of the precolonial societies will be sketched, as
well as the precapitalist socioeconomic formations. The course will then cover:
 Kenya in the 19th century; the British conquest of Kenya; the colonial state
and its contradictions; the colonial economy; educational and religious
changes; social and cultural changes; the traditions of resistance and
collaboration; the invention of tribes; clan, district and territorial
politics; Mau Mau, decolon-
001 TBA                                 Odhiambo, Atieno S.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 415   THE RISE & FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
How the largest empire in world history came into existence, the impact it had
on people and states worldwide, and its decline and fall. Course work will
consist of reading, viewing, and evaluating films, and, most important,
preparing and summarizing in class a research paper on a topic of
choice.
Prereq- some background in either British history or the history of one
of the areas impacted by the British desirable.
001 TBA - TH 02:30PM - 05:30PM          Wiener, Martin J.         Enr: 0 Max: 15

HIST 416   BLACKS IN RONALD REAGAN'S AMERICA        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This is still Ronald Reagan's America--era of individualism and conservatism
quite at odds with the America of Martin Luther King, Jr.  In this reading- and
writing-intensive seminar, students will examine American conservatism in the
wake of the civil rights movement and explore contemporary African American
history.
001 TBA                                 Byrd, Alexander Xavier    Enr: 0 Max: 15

HIST 422   JAPANESE HISTORY II: MODERN JAPAN        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Enriched version of Hist 222.  May not receive credit for both Hist 222
and 422.
001 TBA                                 Thal, Sara                Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 424   NAVIGATION & CARTOGRAPHY                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Navigation and cartography changed more rapidly in the period from 1400 to 1600
than in any other period prior to the 20th century.  Topics covered include the
history of projections, origin of latitude and longitude scales, compass roses,
ship design and related subjects.  A list of the subjects covered apears at
<http://www.rice.edu/latitude>.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 425   COLONIAL/POST COLONIAL DISCOURSE         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The course will cover one of the most important theoretical issues in the study
of the Third World peoples, namely how Europeans and Americans have created
definitions of who these people are, and how they behave, by virtue of not
their systems of knowledge but ours.  The constitution of colonized peoples as
subjects of knowledge by their colonizers is known as colonial discourse; the
reactions of the colonized, post-colonial discourse.  The first half of the
course will analyze the theories of colonial and post-colonial discourse, the
second half will deal with examples from Latin America, Africa, and South Asia.
Prereq- Either one Third World history course (any area) or a course in
001 TBA - F 01:00PM - 04:00PM           Seed, Patricia            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 427   HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT     Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of the modern civil rights movement, with emphasis on the goals and
strategies of major spokespersons and leaders, as well as the achievements of
the campaign.  Includes the extent of its success or failure and whether or not
an "unfinished" agenda needs to be completed.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 429   TECHNOLOGIES OF NATIONALISM              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The rise of the modern nation-state and the development of nationalism
throughout the globe took place in an era of scientific and technological
innovation.  In this seminar we will analyze, through a series of case studies
from around the world, the close relationship between nationalism and
technology.  Topics that will be studied include the advent of the railroad,
urban feforma nd renewal, automobility, air travel and warfare, the space race,
and the information technology revolution.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 435   PRE-INDUST'L AMERICA 1606-1850           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This seminar focuses on themes of colonialism and nationalism in the modern
Middle East.  Beginning with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, the seminar
delves into specific case studies of European and Middle Eastern encounters and
their representations that span both the 19th and 20th centuries.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 436   SEM:HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST :AMERICA  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of American political, cultural, and religious involvement in the
Middle East. Includes how Americans represented themselves, how these
representations have changed over time, how Americans represented the East,
and how local inhabitants preceived America. Finally, how do these
represenations relate to the Ottoman empire,  to World War I, and to the
Arab-Israeli conflict? offered with additionall work as Hist 536.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA                                 Makdisi, Ussama           Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 447   "REMEMBER":HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS & HI Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A look at the development of Jewish historiography from its biblical
foundations till the establishment of academic institutions for Jewish
historigraphy in modern times and today, with emphasis on the Middle Ages and
the 19th and 20th centuries. Lecture and discussion of primary (in translation)
and secondary sources.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 448   CREATING MODERN JAPAN: THE MEIJI RESTORA Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The Meiji Restoration is often considered the founding event of modern Japan,
similar in stature to the French and American Revolutions.  This seminar
examines the political, social, and cultural creation of modern Japan by
investigating why the Meiji Restoration occurred and how the changes of the
late nineteenth century shaped modern Japan.
001 TBA - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM           Thal, Sara                Enr: 0 Max: 15

HIST 450   CHINESE CULTURE                          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Hist 250.  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
250 and 450.
001 TBA - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM         Smith, Richard J.         Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 451   PHILOSOPHIES & THEOLOGIES/HIST           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Modern thought on the meaning and ultimate direction of history; roots in
eschatology, Augustine, flowering in progress and historicism--e.g., Vico,
Lessing, Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Harnack, Troeltsch, Meinecke,
Spengler, Heidegger, Butterfield, Dawson, Schweitzer, Jaspers, Toynbee.
Also offered as RELI 451
001 TBA - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Stroup, John M.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 457   IMAGES OF EUROPE:IDENTITY AND CULTURE    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Europe from 1939 to 1956:  the Second World War and its consequences, with
special attention to the role of the United States in world affairs.
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 459   TOPICS IN MODERN GERMANY                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
This course will focus on selected topics in the history of Germany.  Topics
change from year to year.  Spring 2000: The social, political, and cultural
histroy of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
001 TBA                                 Caldwell, Peter C.        Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 462   VICTORIAN MARRIAGE                       Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This seminar will look at the institution and experience of marriage in
nineteenth-century England from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.  Using
sources ranging from novels to political debates to conduct and medical
manuals, we will explore the literary, psychological and political power of
matrimonial ideology and how it affected the self-understanding of Victorian
men and women.
Also offered as ENGL 462
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 464   FOREIGN POLICY OF NIXON AND KISSINGER    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Seminar requiring three short research papers.
Prereq- permission of instructor required.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 466   AMERICAN REV. 1754-1789                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The origins and implications of the American Revolution, emphasizing
constitutional, social, and political developments.
001 TBA                                 Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 469   INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This seminar examines relations between the United States and various Latin
American countries from the 1840's to the present, with an emphasis on the 20th
century.  We will examine U.S. territorial expansionism, trade relations, and
the culture of imperialism.  Specific case studies will include Mexico, Cuba,
Central America, Brazil, and Chile.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 470   THE CULTURE OF MUSEUMS                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
This course will explore the museum as a central institution of Western Culture
since the eighteenth century.  Topics include the politics of collecting and
display, the representation of national pasts and ethnic "other" in museums,
exhibitions, and the cultural marketplace, the museum as public space, and
museums as sites of knowledge and classification of objects.  Readings will be
drawn from a variety of approaches, both historical and theoretical, and will
be supplemented by working visits to Houston-area institutions.  The scope of
the course is comparative in terms both of insitutions and of culture, but
special attention will be paid to art museums and to France.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 473   EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Research seminar on selected themes and figures in modern European intellectual
history.  Topic for 1998-99: Leibniz and Kant (team-taught with Prof Kulstad
(Philosophy)).
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 477   THE IDEA OF HUMAN RIGHTS                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An in-depth examination of the intellectual and historical origins of the
discourse of human rights.  We will begin with the birth of the concept of
"natural right", review major criticisms in this concept, and then study the
way this idea was institutionalized in the course of the French and American
Revolutions as well as the American case.  After examining recent
controversaries surrounding feminism and the "rights of man", we will conclude
by focusing on the way new discourse of human rights emerged out of the ashes
of WWII to play a major role in the legitimation of right and left-wing
dictatorships in the 1980s and 1990s.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 482   WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Southern women were divided along lines of class, region, and above all, race.
Yet the lives of black and white women in the south were intimately intertwin
both before and after Emancipation.  How did slavery and it's legacies affect
relationships among women, and between women and men?  What forces and issues
brought southern women together and what held them apart?  How did race affect
construction of gender?  We will look at women's lives in the South from the
mature slave system of the 1830s through the Civil Rights Movement of the
1960s.
Also offered as WGST 417
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 484   POLITICS OF RACE IN THE SOUTH, 1865-PRES Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course will examine the ways in which both the concrete public power of
African Americans and discourses about race informed post-emanicipation
southern politics.  Although we will pay attention to electoral politics and
formal political alliances, the definition of "politics" in this course is
broad and designed to breach the distance between public and private contests
for dignity and power.  At the heart of our deliberations will be the creation
and dissolution of the Jim Crow South.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 485   WOMEN & GENDER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY      Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
In recent years scholars have asked how gender affects our notions of the past.
 Was there a Renaissance for women?  How did gender influence the roles of
women and men in Renaissance society?  This course will explore these and other
questions through readings and discussion of Renaissance and modern sources.
001 TBA - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Brown, Judith Cora        Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 488   MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The Middle Ages has been portrayed as the period in which Western "intolerance"
was born and Europe became a persecuting society.  It is in this period that
the crusade was developed as a weapon against internal and external enemies,
that the inquisition was established to pursue hereby, that massacres of Jews
and other minorities began, and that accusations of witchcraft, ritual murder,
sodomy, etc. became common.  We will explore some of the ways in which these
minorities were persecuted.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 496   A TURBULENT TIME: THE WORLD OF THE HAITI Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
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 eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
001 TBA - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Cox, Edward L.            Enr: 0 Max: 15

HIST 502   MASTER'S HISTORICAL RESEARCH             Credits   Spring 00
See Hist 501.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 504   GRADUATE TOPICS                          Credits   Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 512   DIRECTED READING AMER HIST I             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 514   DIRECTED READING AMER HIST II            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 516   DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY    Credits 4.00  Spring 00
No description
001 TBA                                 Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 518   DIRECT READ HIST/SCI & TECH              Credits 4.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Van Helden, Albert        Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 522   DIR READING-MEDIEVAL HISTORY             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 524   COLONIAL/POST COLONIAL DISCOURSE         Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Hist 425,  Students may not receive credit for both Hist
425 and 524.
001 TBA - F 01:00PM - 04:00PM           Seed, Patricia            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 526   DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY     Credits 4.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Odhiambo, Atieno S.       Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 528   DIR READING NONWESTERN HISTORY           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 530   DIR READ-MOD EUR HIST I                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 532   DIR READ-MOD EUR HIS II                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 536   SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAS Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Hist 436. Students may not receive credit for both Hist 436
and 536.
001 TBA                                 Makdisi, Ussama           Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 542   RACE, NATION & IDENTITY                  Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Focusing on France but using a comparative approach this research seminar will
examine the leading themes and figures in the emergence of
 racial thought in
the 19th century and its development in the 20th. The
 relationship between
race, nation, and identity will be among the salient features of the course.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 545   THE GERMAN IDEOLOGY                      Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Contemporary cultural criticism has been profoundly shaped by the writings of
the Frankfurt School -- Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer,
Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas.  The course will focus on the way in
which their theories took shape in response to some of the major crises of our
time: the historical failure of Marxism, the rise of political
authoritarianism, and the emergence of the so-called "culture industry."
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 548   MARX                                     Credits 4.00  Spring 00
This course provides in introduction to key concepts of Marxist theory,
including alienation, production, reification, and revolution, through close
reading of original sources.  The course further traces the dissemination of
these concepts into literary theory, cultural studies, and the social sciences.
 A series of short secondary readings identify the impact and continuing charge
provided by Marxist theory for addressing aporias of representation, theories
of subjectivity, new political movements, transnationality, and post-industrial
capitalism.
Also offered as ENGL 587
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 550   MAIN ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY         Credits 4.00  Spring 00
This course will focus on some of the major local and international forces and
ideas which have shaped the course of the history of the Caribbean.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 554   TOPICS IN LATE MEDIEVAL SPANISH HISTORY  Credits 4.00  Spring 00
This course examines the history of Iberia from the onset of the Black Death to
the conquest of Granada/expulsion of the Jews.  We will focus on the political
crises of the period and emphasize how these crises affected relations between
Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Prereq- Reading knowledge of Spanish, Catalan, Hebrew, or Latin.
001 TBA                                 Nirenberg, David          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 565   EARLY AMERICA, 1607-1800                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Study of major works on the English colonies of North America, as well as
topics of particular interest to individual students.
001 TBA                                 Gruber, Ira D.            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 566   19&20 CENT EUROPEAN HIST                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
The emphasis in this course will be on the Anglo-American world of the 17th and
18th centuries, but students may choose topics that go beyond the immediate
focus of the course.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 567   20TH-CENTURY U.S. HISTORY                Credits 4.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 568   EMANCIPATION & TRANSITION TO FREEDOM/POS Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Reading and research
seminar.
001 TBA - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM           Dailey, Jane E.           Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 569   INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS                 Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Graduate version of Hist 469.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 573   EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY            Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Research seminar on selected themes and figures in modern European intellectual
history.  Topic for 1998-99: Leibniz and Kant.  Open to qualified undergraduate
students with permission of instructors.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 578   AFTER POSTMODERNISM                      Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Why has postmodernism failed--run aground, as it were, on its
own
superficiality? What are the new, 'positive" intellectual paradigms
that
have emerged in its wake? After surveying the reasons postmodernism
proved
unable to respond to the posttotalitarian caesura of 1989, we
will examine the
renewal of democratic thought. Among the thinkers we
will examine will be
Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor and
Jean Elshtain.
001 TBA - M 06:00PM - 10:00PM           Wolin, Richard            Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 586   U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL&LEGAL HIS            Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Significant constitutional and legal original research questions stressing
civil liberties, criminal law, civil-military relations, race relations, and
urban problems.
001 TBA                                 Hyman, Harold M.          Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 587   GRAD SEM IN U.S. CULTURAL/ INTELLECTUAL  Credits 4.00  Spring 00
An intensive survay of the literature of cultural/intellectual history,
focusing on 19th century America.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 588   RESEARCH SEMINAR IN U.S. INTELLECTUAL/CU Credits 4.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 591   GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Spring 00
Graduate reading in conjunction with another course.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 592   GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Spring 00
See Hist 591.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 593   GRADUATE READING                         Credits 1.00  Spring 00
See Hist 591.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

HIST 597   RES SEM: LAW, SOCIETY & THE STATE IN PRO Credits 4.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 598   READINGS IN AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY       Credits 4.00  Spring 00
For graduate students only.
001 TBA                                 TBA                       Enr: 0 Max:

HIST 800   PH.D. RESEARCH                           Credits   Spring 00
Doctoral dissertation.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA



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