History Department

Graduate Courses Fall 2008

history department

Please note that this information is subject to change.  Please refer to the Student Services website for additional information.


Graduate Colloqiua

A colloquium consists of readings, primarily in secondary sources, on a series of selected topics.  All graduate students are urged to take at least one colloquium each semester.

HS-802-01 Coll: Intro to Doctoral Studies Quigley Mondays 5-7
HS-804-01 Coll: Methods in Cultural History Baldwin Thursday 3-5
HS-821-01 Coll: Comparative Studies Levenson Mondays 3-5
HS-825-01 Coll: Topics in Modern British History Weiler Tuesdays 5-7
HS-865-01 Coll: Religion in America O'Toole Wednesdays 5-7
HS-897-01 Coll: Modern European History Cronin Thursdays 5-7

 

Graduate Seminars
Seminars primarily involve research in a carefully delineated topic.  Students must discuss with the professor whether or not they have the necessary background and, where appropriate, the necessary foreign language ability to qualify for admission into the seminar.  Students are urged to take at least 1 seminar during their first year of classes.

HS-921-01 Sem: Medieval History Fleming Wednesdays 3-5
HS-937-01 Sem: Modern European History Pendas Wednesdays 3-5
HS-944-01 Sem: Irish History Ferriter Thursdays 3-5


Graduate Courses
An asterisk (*) indicates a 75-minute class

HS-303-01 Late Imperial China Nedostup MWF 10:00
HS-320-01 Modern Brazil Morgan MWF 1:00
HS-325-01 Revolutionary Cuba Taylor MWF 12:00
HS-326-01 Modern Iran Banuazizi TTh 10:30*
HS-330-01 Religion in Latin America: From the Sun to Christ the Worker Levenson-Estrada TTh 9:00*
HS-358-01 The Death Penalty: U.S. & E.U. Rogers TTh 1:30*
HS-360-01 History of Racism Braude TTh 10:30*
HS-373-01 Slave Societies in the Caribbean & Latin America Taylor MW 3:00*
HS-385-01 Modern South Asia Parthasarathi MWF 11:00
HS-433-01 Great Hunger O'Neill TTh 10:30*
HS-434-01 History of Northern Ireland, 1912-Present Savage TTh 9:00*
HS-444-01 End of History & After Cronin TTh 3:00*
HS-448-01 Eastern and East Central Europe Szelenyi TTh 12:00*
HS-452-01 War and Genocide Pendas MWF 12:00
HS-466-01 Europe 1871-1914, Triumph to Disaster Reinerman MWF 10:00
HS-469-01 Intellectual History of Modern Europe I Breines TTh 1:30*
HS-473-01 Catholicism Confronts Modernity Schloesser W 2-4:30
HS-489-01 France in the Nineteenth Century Spagnoli MWF 11:00
HS-506-01 History of the American West Johnson TTh 1:30*
HS-510-01 Black Modernity Baldwin TTh 1:30*
HS-517-01 US Constitutional History I Rogers TTh 10:30*
HS-531-01 History of American Religion O'Toole TTh 12:00*
HS-571-01 US Foreign Policy I Jacobs MWF 12:00
HS-609-01 Cairo: City of 1001 Nights Bloom T 3-5:30
HS-633-01 Imperial Legacies in Africa Northrup T 3-5
HS-654-01 Irish Women Emigrants: The Irish and American Context Harris W 3-5
HS-665-01 Seminar in College Teaching: Women's Studies Brooks T 5:30-7:30
HS-670-01 The Art Museum: History, Philosophy, & Practice Leone/Netzer  M 3-5:30