Fall 2018 History Course Catalog!1

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1 Fall 2018 History Course Catalog!1

2 Upper-level European History 309: The Viking Age Kimberly Rivers MWF 12:40-1:40 Who were the people we call "Vikings" and how did they live? How does our modern memory of the Vikings correspond to what scholars have been able to reconstruct of their family life, economy, political organizations, art, and poetry? This class will attempt to answer these questions and others through the study and discussion of written records, archaeological findings, and the works of modern historians. The Global Scholar course will concentrate on a long Viking Age, from the eighth to the early thirteenth centuries, in order to incorporate Icelandic sources and Scandinavian expansion west to the North Atlantic islands of the Faroes, Shetland, Orkney, Iceland, Greenland and, eventually, to North America. Core & USP Explore/ Quest Courses The Department of History offers a broad range of 100- and 200-level courses, as well as Quest I, Quest II and Quest III courses for the University Studies Program. See TitanWeb for a listing of these courses. Have a question about any of these courses? Call or ..the History Department Office; or historyoffice@uwosh.edu the History Department chair, Stephen Kercher: or kercher@uwosh.edu or any of us in the History Department! History 315 Unlike other history courses that focus mainly on content, this course teaches skills and methodology. The overarching goal is for history students to gain an increased understanding of history as a discipline and how historians make sense of the past. This is a required course that all majors should complete by the end of their junior year. History 312: Special Topics in European History: Sarajevo Crossroads of History Andrea Jakobs M-F 9-12 (Winter interim) The city of churches, synagogues, and minarets, the city ruled by Habsburgs and Ottomans, a city of coexistence and bloody warfare is at the center of our study of a unique region, a slice of Islamic East in the heart of Europe. The region we will examine will be the overlap of the Habsburg Empire s territories in central Europe and the Ottoman Empire s territories in the Balkans, roughly from the early modern period to WWI. We will understand better the history of this region by looking at the literature, architecture, music, and art that flourished from this interchange of cultures. Fall 2018 History Course Catalog!2

3 Senior Seminar Registration for the History 413 seminar (see below) is typically restricted to seniors, but History majors of junior standing interested in pursuing research earlier in their undergraduate careers may apply for entry. Speak with your History Department advisor for more information. History 323: Old Regime, French Revolution, and Napoleon, Michael Rutz TR 11:30-1:00 Study the political, socioeconomic, and cultural history connected with the causes and consequences of the French Revolution, one of the most significant turning points in world history. Topics will include: political and social structures of the Ancien Regime, France's colonial rivalry with Britain in Asia and the Americas, the impact of the Enlightenment, the outbreak and radicalization of the Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as the global consequences of the Revolution. History 350: Modern Eastern Europe Karl Loewenstein TR 1:20-2:50 This course will focus on the key revolutionary moments of 20th Century East Europe. We will examine this history with an eye to understanding the turbulent situation at the beginning of the 21st Century. Because this course covers more material than can be reasonably handled in one semester, we will focus on 4 crucial moments: World War II, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968, and the revolutions of Upper-level United States History 339: Public History Gabe Loiacono TR 11:30-1:00 Students here will investigate the promises and problems of presenting history to the public, together with the connections between public history and environmental sustainability. THEN, students will create their own public history, with a possibility of seeing it presented on campus. This course is especially good for anyone thinking of careers in: *Museums *Natural Resources *Teaching *Genealogy *National Parks & other Historical Sites *Digital History *Historical Interpretation *Historical Films *Environmental Stewardship Join the History Club! The History Club hosts a variety of activities throughout the semester including Bowling with Professors. Join the History Club and get to know other History majors and minors outside of the classroom. For more information, historyclub@uwosh.edu. Fall 2018 History Course Catalog!3

4 History 327: History of American Cities Jeffrey Pickron TR 1:20-2:50 This course examines the development of American urban centers from the mid 19 th century to the present, focusing especially on the formation and evolution of the physical urban environment, urban political economy, structures of race, class and gender, growth and decline, suburbanization, and responses to the urban crisis. Throughout the course we will not only analyze urban development but will connect it to the broader patterns of American social, cultural, political, and economic history. In doing so, we will consider many American cities to understand their historical significance in regional, national and international contexts. History 315: History Methods Gabriel Loiacono MWF 10:20-11:20 This introduction to the history major at UWO is a required course for history majors, but it is also open to interested nonmajors, including history minors and broadfield social science majors. It covers several topics: from critical reading to ever better writing, from researching the past to getting a job in the future. History 341: History of Wisconsin Thomas Rowland MWF 9:10-10:10 This survey of Wisconsin history addresses the principal political, economic, social and cultural themes in the evolution of the place called Wisconsin from its pre-historical foundations to the modern era. Included in this survey will be: the initial contact between indigenous peoples and the arriving Europeans; the French & British eras, the American territorial period, and the emergence of the state in It then surveys the history of Wisconsin throughout the second-half of the nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth. History 386: Women in the United States Susan Rensing MW 1:50-3:20 This course centers the experiences of women in the past. What status did they have? How did they fight for change? How did different groups of women have different interests and desires? We start with colonial goodwives and witches and move through the 19 th century cult of domesticity, committed abolitionists, Progressive Era reformers and suffragists, and end with second wave feminism. This course also considers women as agents of historical change in the United States. We will examine how women of different races and ethnicities were integral to the goals, actions, and fabric of our country. Particular attention will be paid to women s relationship to power and social activism. Fall 2018 History Course Catalog!4

5 Upper-level Non-Western See your advisor soon. All History majors who have completed 12 credits in History are assigned a faculty advisor within the Department of History. Faculty advisors are eager to help you select your courses in History and other disciplines, speak with you about unique internship and research experiences and help you begin thinking about how you can market the skills you re acquiring with potential employers. If you do not know who your assigned faculty advisor is or have any questions about the advising process, please contact historyoffice@uwosh.edu, the History Department chair, Stephen Kercher ( or kercher@uwosh.edu), or any of us in the History Department! History 383: The Traditional Middle East James Frey MWF 10:20-11:20 The history of the Islamic World from the immediate pre-islamic era up to the establishment of the Ottoman Empire. This course features an intensive focus on early Islam and the formation of Islamic practice, theology, and philosophy. Much of the remainder of the course is a broad-ranging exploration of the development of a classical Islamic civilization under the Abbasid Caliphate and its successors. History 313: Special Topics NW History: India- Mutiny & Revolt James Frey MWF 1:50-2:50 This special topics course focuses on the Indian Mutiny of , in which a mutiny within the British Indian Army expanded into a popular uprising across much of northern India. In this class, we will examine the transformation of colonialism from its mercantilist to its imperial form, and we will explore how the Mutiny was, for India, the point during which the country stepped from the pre-modern age into the modern age. The course will also explore the Mutiny as an episode of imperial counter-insurgency. Much of the course will revolve around the reading and analysis of selected primary sources. Latin America & the U.S. From Independence to the Late 20th Century Ana Maria Kapelusz-Poppi MW 1:50-3:20 Interactions between Latin America and the United States have been multiple and, often, of a contradictory nature. Early Latin American patriots were fascinated by the United States Constitution, but in modern times, many observers and politicians accused the U.S. of collaborating with brutal local dictatorships. In many cases, links and connections did not rely on the decisions made by governments, but rather on the actions of individual citizens. The twentieth century was marred by events led by American forces, such as the intervention in Nicaragua or the failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. At the same time, there were many cultural interactions between Latin America and Englishspeaking North America. Throughout the semester, this course will try to capture the essence of the multifaceted and contradictory character of the relations between the United States and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Fall 2018 History Course Catalog!5