Courses

Considers current theoretical approaches to the history of sexuality and traces the changing meaning of same-sex sexuality in the United States through investigation of lesbian/gay identity formation, community development, politics, and queer cultural resistance. Prereq., HIST 1015 or 1025 or 1035 or 1045 or WMST 2000. Same as HIST 5636 and WMST 4636.

Focuses on economic, social, and cultural history of immigration, return migration, and permanent settlement in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Examines the ways in which race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality shape social relations. Prereq., HIST 1015 or 1025 or 1035 or 1045. Restricted to junior/senior HIST or ETHN majors.

Students gain an acquaintance with major works in the field and discuss current issues of interpretation and methodology. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines female experience in the United States from 17th century European colonization to 19th century settlement of the frontier. Emphasizes comparison between classes, regions, and racial/ethnic groups. Women's writings provide the basis for discussions of private and public roles, definitions of femininity, interpersonal relationships, and struggles for survival and self-expression. Prereq., HIST 1025. Restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors. HIST 4616 and 5616 are the same course. Also same as WMST 4616. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Restricted to graduate students. Same as HIST 4636 and WMST 4636.

Prereq., undergraduate work in American history.

Explores the history of politics in the U.S., with an emphasis on the period since 1865. Key themes include the relations between state and society, the origins and nature of social movements, and the role played by political culture. Prereq., graduate standing.

Examines the history of ideas and the social history of intellectuals in American society during the 19th and 20th centuries. Stresses social and political dimensions and the changing cultural and institutional contexts of intellectual discourse. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to History graduate students only.

Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Introduces standard works and recent developments in cultural history. Explores structuralism and post-structuralism, semiotics, social construction, relativism, hegemony, and the idea of postmodernity in the uses of culture as an historical category. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Focuses on analytical, ideological, cultural, and political tensions between understandings of race and nationalism. Readings are interdisciplinary, but students identify and analyze tensions between race and nationalism at particular historical moments. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Explores various issues in U.S. labor history through readings and research projects. Most of the readings are taken from writings on U.S. labor history. Special attention is given to women, immigration, and regional patterns. Research skills emphasized. Prereq., HIST 6536 or instructor consent.

Prereq., one 6000-level readings course in women's history.