Spring Quarter
| Dept | Course No and Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| HISTORY (S18) | 250C TWENTIETH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA | TINSMAN, HEIDI |
| This seminar explores selected debates in the historiography on modern Latin America in the 20th century. It addresses conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches to histories of modern state formation, politics, and popular culture, including struggles over labor, race, and gender in the consolidation of national projects. Students will make two in-class presentations and write two 7-8 page essays on assigned literature. | ||
| HISTORY (S18) | 290 DECOLONIZNG SCIENCE | PHILIP, K. |
| Over the past two decades, ethical and diversity issues in the practice of science have grown dramatically in importance. Scholars, policy makers and activists have argued that the views of practicing scientists, of social scientists, and of philosophers should inform one another. This interdisciplinary explosion forms the backdrop to this seminar, which asks two particular questions: How have the politics of decolonization shaped scientific and technological change? How can the historical study of scientific and technological practice offer a fuller picture of this putatively unprecedented incursion of science and technology into everyday cultural life? Readings will draw from the history of objectivity, statistics, colonial administration, and digital media, with a strong emphasis on South Asia and the British Empire. Debates and assignments will focus on the cultural, economic, and political history of science and technology as they shaped gender, race, sexuality, caste, and class. | ||
| HISTORY (S18) | 240B FREEDOM&SLAVERY | O'TOOLE, R. |
| This course explores how enslaved and free people constructed race, historically, in the Atlantic Americas. By exploring how women and men negotiated slavery, colonialism, and citizenship, the course provokes an examination of the law worked historically, in and outside the courts. The methods of the course include micro/macro world history scale, critical race theories of subject positionality, and close textual readings. In addition to weekly summaries, participants will choose one of these four options: write two critical essays, construct a research paper, create a course curriculum, or organize an archive. | ||
| HISTORY (S18) | 260B 19TH CENTURY US | MILLWARD, J. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (S18) | 298 EXPER GROUP STUDY | LEHMANN, M |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (S18) | 204B 2ND YEAR RESRCH SEM | CHATURVEDI, V. |
| No detailed description available. | ||
| HISTORY (S18) | 203 1ST YEAR RESRCH SEM | BAUM, E. |
| This course is the second part in a two-quarter sequence, normally required of all first-year graduate students in the department. In this quarter, students will build on the research they conducted in the first part of the sequence to produce a research paper of publishable quality. Throughout, we will discuss how to craft historical arguments, create an authorial voice, and successfully approach the writing, editing, and publishing process. | ||