Department of History The University of Texas at El Paso Spring 2014 Course Descriptions Upper-Division and Graduate Level Courses Undergraduate Advisors Contact Department 915.747.5508 for Advisor Assignment & office hours Dr. Charles Ambler LART 332 915.747.8039 cambler@utep.edu Dr. Michelle Armstrong-Partida LART 313 915.747.7063 marmstrongpartida@utep.edu Dr. Samuel Brunk LART 312 915.747.7049 sbrunk@utep.edu Dr. Ernesto Chavez LART 314 915.747.6591 echavez@utep.edu Dr. Maceo Dailey LART 401 915.747.8650 mdailey@utep.edu Dr. Paul Edison LART 330 915.747.6808 pedison@utep.edu Dr. Joshua Fan LART 337 915.747.8948 jfan@utep.edu Dr. Yasuhide Kawashima Pre-law Advisor LART 131 915.747.7068 ykawashi@utep.edu Dr. Ron Weber Kelly 223A 915.747.6512 rweber@utep.edu Graduate Masters Advisors By Email: Dr. Adam Arenson LART 325 915.747.6277 aiarenson@utep.edu In Person (appointment required) Dr. Yolanda Leyva LART 320 915.747.5508 yleyva@utep.edu Doctoral Advisor Dr. Jeffrey Shepherd LART 326 915.747-6805 jpshepherd@utep.edu LA 316 History Department LART 320 915.747.5508 history@utep.edu
Undergraduate Courses THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION HIST 3302 C R N 26508 T R 9:00-10:20 a.m. Yasuhide Kawashima HIST 3302 C R N 26973 T R 6:00-7:20 p.m. The American Revolution is one of the most important events in American History. In this course an attempt will be made to understand the event in a broad and global perspective. Majors topics to be covered are the colonial background of the American Revolution, the breakdown of the Anglo-American political system, the development of American political principles, the War for Independence and social readjustment, the role of minorities and ethnic groups, the diplomacy of the Revolution, the creation of new government, the rise of political parties, the Federalist and Jeffersonian administration, the War of 1812, and the emergence of national character. AGE OF JACKSON HIST 3304 C R N 26506 M W 12:30-1:50 p.m. Brad Cartwright This course examines American politics, economics, and culture from the end of the War of 1812 to the Compromise of 1850. These years represent a period of intense change in America. Revolutions in transportation, communications, and markets stimulated enormous economic growth. Religious movements inspired people to radically reform their society. As more white men got the right to vote, women and nonwhites increasingly began to demand equal political and economic rights for themselves. These decades also witnessed hardening racial perspectives, the growth of the institution of slavery, and the forceful removal of Native Americans from their native lands. Lastly, by the late 1840s, America s manifest destiny to expand westward led to a controversial and costly war with Mexico. While engaging with this content, students will learn to think like historians by analyzing primary and secondary sources. In this way, students will learn that history is not merely a series of facts neatly tied together to form fixed conclusions, but instead is an interpretative enterprise which continually evolves as a result of new evidence and changing perspectives. MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY HIST 3309 C R N 23165 M W F 1:30-2:20 p.m. Manuel Ramirez HISTORY OF TEXAS HIST 3317 C R N 25101 M W F 10:30-11:20 a.m. Charles Martin 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, 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, de la Teja, et al., Texas: Crossroads of North America, 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 pass 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. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY HIST 3329 C R N 23899 T R 1:30-2:50 p.m. Maceo Dailey THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION HIST 3350 C R N 26510 T R 1:30-2:50 p.m. Samuel Brunk This course will examine the events during the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911) that led to the Mexican Revolution, the actual fighting of the revolution (1910-1920), the institutionalization of the revolution in the decades after 1920, the period of economic growth often called the Mexican Miracle (1940-1970), and the extended period of change and crisis that followed. Among the topics we will discuss are the reasons the revolution happened; the goals of different revolutionary groups; state and nation building in the aftermath of the fighting; the struggle for economic development; and the role of the United States in Mexican history. Along the way we will discuss the lives of such figures as Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Lázaro Cárdenas, and Subcomandante Marcos. Three books will constitute most of the required reading; there will be two exams, a book review, and a short research paper. The course will combine lecture and discussion. ANCIENT GREECE HIST 3360 C R N 26509 M W 3:00-4:20 p.m. Ronald Weber 19 TH C EUROPE HIST 3368 C R N 26507 T R 12:00-1:20 p.m. Paul Edison
HISTORY, SPECIAL TOPICS Topic: Afro-Mexico: A History of Race and Gender HIST 3390 C R N 24035 T R 12:00-1:20 p.m. Selfa Chew Smithart HISTORY SPECIAL TOPICS Topic: The Civil War on Trial HIST 3390 C R N 24171 T R 10:30-11:50 a.m. Yasuhide Kawashima The Civil War is not the War between the states; it is the War for the Southern independence, similar to the American Revolution. In this course, the Civil War, one of the most familiar and popular subjects in America history, will be analyzed strictly from the legal point of view. Major topics include: the American law of slavery and other causes of the War, the major campaigns and battles, the War in the international context, the consequences of the War, and the legal nature of the War. HISTORY SPECIAL TOPICS Topic: The U.S.-Mexico Border since 1848 HIST 3390 C R N 26999 W 4:30-7:20 p.m. Jeffrey Shepherd This course will focus on the border region shared by Mexico and the United States after 1848. Although the geographical scope will remain closely bound to the line between the U.S. and Mexico, content will address a broad range of themes, debates, patterns, and concepts. Foundational notions of race, citizenship, class, gender, sexuality, labor relations, immigration, war, nation-hood, state formation, militarization, vice, activism will guide our investigation of important historical events and people. To the best of our ability, we will anchor the course in a transnational framework that emphasizes the flows of capital, culture, people, and ideas across the line. We will note the structural tensions between the U.S. and Mexico, but we will also observe the communities who have straddled the increasingly rigid international boundary between nation states. Course materials will emphasize articles and essays, primary sources, documents, and films. Each student will complete a 12-15 page original research paper on some aspect of U.S. Mexico border history. Students are also required to attend one of three organized class visits to local places tied to issues discussed in class. HISTORY OF WOMEN Topic: Women in Roman, Medieval, and Early Modern Society HIST 3391 C R N 26511 T R 3:00-4:20 p.m. Michelle Armstrong-Partida This course will focus on the experiences of women and attitudes toward women in pre-modern European societies. Christian ideas about sex have greatly influenced Western notions of marriage, same-sex love, and the appropriate roles for men and women in society. We will explore how European societies constructed femininity and masculinity. The course is designed to consider the social, political, and religious forces that shaped gender identities. Topics covered include family, work, religious life, women s agency, same-sex desires, prostitution, medical theories of the body, the effects of war on women, as well as the connections between gender and power, sex and violence, and the social practices that contradicted the Church s teachings. Assessment: Grades will be based on class attendance and participation, in-class quizzes, exams, and an 8-10 page research paper. Attendance is mandatory.
JUNIOR/SENIOR Topic: Progressive Era and the Interwar Years HIST 4325 C R N 22417 T 1:30-4:20 p.m. Ann Gabbert The junior-senior seminar is designed to guide students through the process of researching and writing a major scholarly history paper based on primary research. This section will focus on the United States and the El Paso Borderlands during the Progressive Era and the interwar years. Course readings will introduce a variety of themes from the period, including social and political reform, immigration, changing roles for women, urbanization, public health, labor, and the resurgence of the KKK. Students may select local, regional or national topics for their papers, from the period 1880-1941. The course requirements include regular attendance, short writing assignments, and completion of all steps required for a major original research paper based on primary sources (17-20 pages) including peer editing, revision, and oral presentation. Three students from the class who demonstrate superior research and writing skills will be invited to participate in the Harper Student History Conference at the end of the semester. JUNIOR-SENIOR SEMINAR Topic: The Pacific World HIST 4325 C R N 21449 W 4:30-7:20 p.m. Brad Cartwright This seminar focuses on the making of a Pacific World from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Topics to be explored include islander societies, western exploration, the racial and gendered nature of cross-cultural encounters, colonization, migration, labor, trade, and war. Upon completing this course, students will have constructed a 17-20 page research paper. This paper will represent the culmination of a series of steps designed to assist students in becoming familiar with the Pacific s historiography, conducting primary source research, and crafting original historical interpretations. At the end of the semester, students will make a presentation summarizing the results of their research.
Graduate Courses STUDIES IN UNITED STATES HISTORY Topic: Civil Rights and Black Power HIST 5305 C R N 26513 R 4:30-7:20 p.m. Charles Martin This discussion-based readings class will focus on one of the most celebrated social movements in American history the modern Civil Rights Movement and one of the most controversial the Black Power Movement. During the semester we will explore the various ways in which these two movements have been compared, constructed, and evaluated by contemporaries and scholars. In exploring the Civil Rights Movement the course will devote considerable attention to the classic phase or heroic years of the movement from 1954 to 1968. Emphasis will also be placed on the overlap between the two movements and the transition from civil rights to black power, with several readings devoted specifically to the multiple meanings of Black Power. Weekly discussions on the assigned readings will be complemented by short papers and formal book reviews, and each student will write a major historiographical paper at the end of the semester. In addition, we will view individual episodes from the famous PBS series Eyes on the Prize, a documentary on Malcolm X, and selected parts of other documentaries and films. Some of the possible readings for the class include: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past ; Sundiata Keita Cha- Jua and Clarence Lang, The Long Movement as Vampire ; Robert J. Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee; Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy; Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom s Sake: The Life of Fanny Lou Hamer; Steve Estes, I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement; Hasan K. Jeffries, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama s Black Belt; Tim Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power; and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. STUDIES IN WORLD HISTORY Topic: Modern China HIST 5306 C R N 24160 M 4:30-7:20 p.m. Joshua Fan This seminar focuses on recent English-language scholarships on modern China and gives non-specialists an introduction to major issues and events in modern Chinese history. Some of the issues and events we will examine are: changing gender and familial relations, popular religion, WWII and the Chinese civil war, ethnic identity, population control, new media, and popular protest. We will also encounter a variety of perspectives and approaches to this history such as anthropological, biographical, environmental, geopolitical, military, and oral.
STUDIES IN BORDERLANDS HISTORY Topic: Mexico as a Frontier Society, 1500-1900 HIST 5312 C R N 25132 W 4:30-7:20 p.m. Ignacio Martinez This course explores important themes and concepts in the development of Mexican history from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In particular, this class will pay special attention to Mexico s northern frontier, and will ask students to think critically about how frontiers and borderlands influence the economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual evolution of nation-states. In order to achieve this task, we will incorporate a comparative framework that will place Mexico within a broader Latin American context. Readings for the class will cover a wide range of thematic and theoretical topics such as hegemony and counter-hegemony, nationalism and state formation, popular culture, liberalism, and the development of national myths and narratives. SEMINAR IN BORDERLANDS HISTORY Topic: Identity and Community in the Borderlands HIST 5374 C R N 24206 T 1:30-4:20 p.m. Ernesto Chavez SEMINAR IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY Topic: Women and Gender in Latin America after Independence HIST 5377 C R N 26515 T 4:30-7:20 p.m. Sandra McGee Deutsch The readings will include classic articles on the history of women and of gender, historiographical articles, and a selection of recent works of note on women, gender, and sexuality in Latin America. The main task of the course will be the production of a paper based heavily on primary sources. PUBLIC HISTORY INTERNSHIP Department approval required HIST 5390 C R N 26516 M 1:30-4:20 p.m. Yolanda Leyva HISTORY TEACHING AND LEARNING HIST 6320 C R N 26517 W 1:30-4:20 p.m. Keith Erekson Course description not available at time of printing, please see professor for further information