Fall Department of History

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1 Fall 2016 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO Department of History Upper-Division & Graduate Level Course Descriptions For further information, call , or come by LART 320

2 Undergraduate Courses HIST 3302 CRN American Revolution Yasuhide Kawashima T R 9:00 10:20 a.m. HIST 3305 CRN Civil War and Reconstruction Susan Stanfield T R 3:00 4:20 p.m. This course examines American society during the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We will explore the themes of sectional conflict, slavery, and the causes of the war, political and military conflict, emancipation, and the social, economic, and political reconstruction of the South. This course also pays close attention to the experience of war and its impact on civilians and soldiers, men and women, both during and after the military conflict. Readings, primary documents and images will help us investigate the meaning of this war, for those that experienced it as well as through historical memory. HIST 3317 CRN History of Texas Charles Martin M W F 10:30 11:20 a.m. This course will explore the rich, diverse, and sometimes eccentric political and social history of the Lone Star State, from the 1600s through the early twenty-first century. Although the period of Spanish rule before 1821 will be covered in some detail, the class will concentrate on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A mixture of small group discussions, in which all students will participate, full class discussions, short writing projects, and formal lectures will be utilized in the class. Students will read a core textbook by Jesús F. de la Teja, et al., Texas: Crossroads of North America (SECOND Edition), one paperback monograph, and a xeroxed collection of essays, articles, and documents on a wide variety of topics. There are three major tests, a final examination, individual and group short papers, and a combination paper/test on the one monograph. Students must also successfully complete a map exercise in which they correctly locate the major cities, rivers, and regions of Texas. Students may also participate for credit in the Center for Civic Engagement s Shine--Citizenship Program as an intern. Regular attendance is required. By the end of the semester, students should be able to identify and analyze major developments and issues in Texas History, identify central arguments in written texts, and write clear, effective historical essays.

3 HIST 3329 CRN African American History Selfa Chew Melendez M W 1:30 2:50 p.m. This course is an introduction to African American Studies and includes the study of the history, literature, arts, and material culture of peoples of African descent in the United States. Textbook, articles, and films will assist us to understand the role that African American men and women have in the history of the United States. Our analysis will center on the political, cultural, social, and economic strategies developed to challenge racism and other relations of power. Lectures, audiovisual material and activities are selected to examine persisting inequalities affecting African Americans as well as accomplishments in the struggle for equality. Prominent themes include the Reconstruction; African Americans migration; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; African American intellectuals; deindustrialization; and contemporary struggles. The intersections of gender, race, and class will be repeatedly visited in our analysis of African American History. HIST 3360 CRN Ancient Greece Ronald Weber M W 3:00 4:20 p.m. The Greek in the ancient period was a staunch individualist who prized his personal freedom and fiercely guarded it against the inherent jealousy of gods and men. He has left us a chaotic picture. However, as a nation the Greeks played an essential role in the birth of Western thought. In this class the aim will be to marshal the remains of Greek culture in a way that gives the student a clear picture of the quality of the evidence, an exposure to the different interpretations of the evidence, and an opportunity to form his/her own learned opinion about ancient Greece and her people. The semester's work will investigate the evolution of Greek institutions like the polis, tyranny, democracy, oligarchy and their characterizations in Greek drama, literature, philosophy, religion, and architecture. HIST 3390 CRN History, Special Topics Topic: Afro-Mexico History Selfa Chew Melendez T R 10:30 11: 50 a.m. Identified as the third root, African cultures and histories have played significant roles in the formation of Mexico, from the colonial period to the present. The notion of mestizaje, however, left little to imagining and envisioning the history of so many women and men of African descent in Mexico. This course is an effort to explore Mexico s history through the perspective of the African Mexican communities. Our review of a sample of the most significant scholarship in the field will assist us to identify and comprehend the multiple roles Africans and Afro-mestizos played in the nation s political, economic, and socio-cultural development as well as in the transnational communities of which Afro- Mexicans are members. Race, gender, and class will guide us in reading, discussing, and constructing questions on an often neglected aspect of history accounting for the presence of persons of African descent living in metaphorical and geopolitical border regions.

4 HIST 3390 CRN History, Special Topics Topic: The Black Panther Party Selfa Chew Melendez T R 1:30 2:50 p.m. This course examines the history and legacy of the Black Panther Party ( ). Founded as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, it became one of the most notorious organizations of the 20 th century. Lectures, films, and discussions will highlight the BPP s attempts to create racial justice, and to maintain its connections with other labor and civil rights organizations in the United States and abroad. Materials should encourage a critical analysis of internal tensions, including gendered roles and perspectives, as well as the state efforts to criminalize and control BPP activists. The course not only provides a historical perspective for persistent class and racial inequality but it leads to discussions on contemporary racial justice issues. HIST 3390 CRN History, Special Topics Topic: History and Film T 1:30 4:20 p.m. American popular culture shapes the way we think about most aspect of the past, present, and future. In order to think in a more complex manner about the role of art in society, this course will focus on how the U.S. past has been depicted in films. As a means to do this we will read history texts and also watch movies that provide a unique narrative and at times serve a didactic purpose. The course will also take into consideration the context for the production of the films themselves. Among the movies we will watch and discuss are, The Birth of a Nation, The New World, Stage Coach, All the President s Men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Front, and Lincoln. In addition to a midterm and final exam, students will also write five response papers that engage and think critically about the films. Attendance is required since we will be watching and discussing movies every week. HIST 3390 CRN History, Special Topics Topic: Jews in Latin America Sandra McGee Deutsch T R 12:00 1:20 p.m. We will study Jews of diverse backgrounds and their varied experiences in Latin America, beginning with the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal (Iberia) and the Iberian conquest of Latin America. The emphasis will be on the years after We will examine how Jews have inserted themselves in political, cultural, and economic life in Latin America, as well as into its gender and racial hierarchies. We will also compare these Jews to those in other regions and to other immigrants and minorities in Latin America. We will seek answers to the following questions: To what extent have Latin American societies accepted Jews? How have Jews tied their destinies to those of the Latin American countries in which they reside? What kinds of hybrid identities have these Jewish women and men created? Are the majority best described as Jewish Latin Americans, meaning their Latin American identities are paramount, or Latin American Jews, meaning their Jewish identities are paramount?

5 HIST 3390 CRN History, Special Topics: Topic: Mexican Migration to the United States Larisa Veloz M W 1:30-2:50 p.m. In this course students will examine migration within the broader context of Mexican and U.S. history, and focus on migrant narratives that reflect immigrant and migrant realities on both sides of the border. We will examine how and why migrants made their way north (and south) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the impact of deportations and repatriations of Mexicans during the 1930s, war-time contract labor agreements during the Bracero era, and the rise of legal and illegal immigration during the second half of the twentieth century. Additionally, we will compare various group migrations and consider how migration whether internal or international and motivated by politics, economics, or social and cultural networks, has served as an adaptive strategy in a changing world. HIST 3391 CRN History of Women Topic: U.S. Women s History Heather Sinclair M W F 9:30-10:20 a.m. HIST 4325 CRN Junior-Senior Seminar Topic: The Great Depression Manuel Ramirez W 1:30-4:20 p.m. This course seeks to provide students with the opportunity to conduct original research on the Great Depression. The course readings examine a variety of topics related to the history of the 1930s. Several issues will be discussed including labor, politics, gender, minorities, and the New Deal. The primary and secondary readings in this course attempt to aid students in their exploration of their chosen topics. HIST 4325 CRN Junior-Senior Seminar Topic: Migrant Memoirs Michael Topp M 1:30-4:20 p.m.

6 HIST 4330 CRN Teaching History/Social Studies Brad Cartwright T R 9:00-10:20 a.m. This course serves as a capstone experience for pre-service secondary history and social studies teachers by uniting content knowledge and pedagogical skills. Teaching is an art, but like other arts, it is best cultivated through mastering basic techniques, learning from the experiences of others, and studying the theoretical underpinnings of practice. Accordingly, the major tasks of this course revolve around professional development, lesson planning, and reflection. You will prepare a résumé and a statement on your teaching philosophy, as well as interview for a teaching position. You will also design multiple lesson plans. Throughout this process, you will observe different teaching styles, encounter a variety of teaching activities, review the content presented, gain experience as an evaluator, and reflect upon your evolution as a teacher. Lastly, because the discipline of history lies at the core of the social studies curriculum, special emphasis will be given to history teaching and learning. Graduate Courses HIST 5304 CRN Studies in Public History Yolanda Leyva M 1:30 4:20 p.m. HIST 5304 focuses on oral history with a borderlands focus. The class provides students with both theoretical and methodological knowledge as well as hands-on experience. We will begin the semester by reading several books on oral history. We will also read books that will provide us a historical understanding of borderlands history. In the second half of the semester, we will conduct oral histories that will be deposited in UTEP s Institute of Oral History for future researchers. Because Dr. Leyva is the director of the Institute of Oral History, students will have the opportunity to learn the process of collecting and depositing oral histories from the beginning to the end. According to the Oral History Association, Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Oral history is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders in the 1940s and now using 21st-century digital technologies. The class will be useful for both MA and PhD students. HIST 5305 CRN Studies in United States History Topic: Transnational American History Patrick Iber T 1:30 4:20 p.m. The transnational turn in U.S. historiography has made scholars aware of the interdependence of U.S. history on the history of the rest of the world. It has had a particularly significant impact on intellectual

7 and cultural history, which is now written with an eye towards international currents and contexts. This graduate readings class will present several significant examples of works that use transnational projects some set in the borderlands, some not to generate new insight into the history of the United States. We will use their examples to think through how borderlands history anticipates and can take advantage of the transnational turn. HIST 5305 CRN Studies in United States History Topic: Early American Society Yasuhide Kawashima M 5:00 7:50 p.m. HIST 5306 CRN Studies in World History Topic: France and Empire Paul Edison R 5:00 7:50 p.m. HIST 5309 CRN Studies in Latin American History Topic: Environmental History Samuel Brunk R 1:30 4:20 p.m. The primary aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic works and issues of the environmental history of Latin America, in both colonial and modern periods. This is a relatively new and underdeveloped field, but prompted by growing environmental awareness in contemporary societies, scholars are increasingly finding that a better understanding of history s environmental dimension sheds new light on their political, economic, social, and cultural concerns. Topics will include the impact of livestock on American ecosystems, deforestation, disease, the impact of banana monoculture, and the creation of national parks. HIST 5312 CRN Studies in Borderlands History Topic: Law and Power in the Borderlands Jeffrey Shepherd M 1:30 4:20 p.m. This graduate studies course will focus on two crucial components of borderlands history: law and power. While the notion of the law may seem concrete in that it derives from the decisions of components of the state (presidents and prime ministers, the courts, or a legislature), it is in fact a very mercurial concept that is rooted in ideological assumptions, social constructions, and dubious epistemological foundations. Power, on the other hand, has provoked endless debates about its

8 sources, scope, meaning, shape, function, objective, and nature. Like law, cultures construct power differently across space and time, and philosophers and social critics have searched for its multiple meanings. This class, then, will investigate the ways in which law and power have been constructed and contested across numerous geo-political, discursive, and conceptual borderlands. Drawing from the scholarship of Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, post-colonialism, and works on settlercolonialism, this class will introduce students to a wide range of books and articles that are both classical and cutting edge. Topics and themes include, sexuality and the state, courts and racialization, Indigenous treaties and colonialism, immigration law and the surveillance state; miscegenation law; and the intersections of power and bodily intimacy. Students will read one book and one article every week, and have the option of writing three 6-8 page papers or one larger theoretical/synthetic paper of pages. HIST 5354 CRN W 1:30 4:20 p.m. Literature and Methodology in Transnational and World History Joshua Fan Literature and Methodology of World / Transnational History is designed to introduce doctoral students to some of the literature, methodologies and conceptual possibilities of world and transnational history. There will be three types of readings in this course: those that trace the development and transformation of world history and transnational history; those that propose alternative ways of examining historical narratives especial within world history; and finally some of the recent exciting works in these two subfields. This course will also help doctoral students identify, develop, and complete their third field portfolio for either the World /Transnational History third field or the Teaching World History third field. HIST 5370 CRN Seminar: United States History Topic: The Early Republic Brad Cartwright W 5:00 7:50 p.m. This graduate research seminar focuses on the history of the early American republic and its top priority will be to help students hone their skills in research and writing. We will begin by discussing the challenges and strategies involved in conceptualizing a manageable seminar paper one that is based on original primary source research and engaged with relevant historiographical debates. Thus, during the first several weeks of the semester, we will discuss potential topics and explore the era s historiography. Then, once students have defined their topic, they will devote their time outside of class to intensive research and writing. The last few weeks of the course will be dedicated to peer review and presentations. The course requirements include regular attendance, active and informed participation in class discussions, and the completion of all steps required for an original research project. Ultimately, this seminar paper should function as an important step on the path toward your graduate degree and becoming a professional historian.

9 HIST 5374 CRN Seminar: Borderlands History Topic: Ethnohistory Ignacio Martinez T 5:00 7:50 p.m. This graduate seminar will focus on the nature and practice of ethnohistory. In particular, but not exclusively, this course will concentrate on the development of this field as it relates to Latin America and the borderlands. The first half of the class will survey the state of the literature from the 1980s to the present and will ask students to think critically about what topic(s) they may want to pursue for the class. In addition to reading foundational works, we will spend a significant amount of time gaining requisite skills in Spanish paleography and for conducting oral history interviews. For the second half of the class, students will research and produce a page essay based largely on primary sources. The goal is to produce an essay that can be submitted for publication at the end of the course or that will comprise a chapter in a doctoral dissertation.