HIST 495

Fall 2014 All Classes

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Honors Research & Writing Sem

Credit: 3 hours.

A topic-specific course required of all students in the History Honors Program, and meeting with HIST 498. Each student's work will be evaluated and graded by the instructor of the HIST 498. In addition, students will complete a self-assessment exercise supervised by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: HIST 200 and admission to the History Honors Program.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Advanced Composition

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HIST 495 class schedule data for fall 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
51139	Discussion/ Recitation	A	9:30AM -11:20AM	T	1020 Lincoln Hall	Barrett, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: For Students in the History Honors Program. Meets with HIST 498, Section A. Topic: Chicago: Class, Race, and Ethnicity. Description: The University of Chicago's pioneering sociologists had the idea first in the early years of the twentieth century: The city might become a laboratory in which to observe and study the process of urbanization and related social problems. Nowhere did urbanization and the other broad forces of change that have transformed life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--industrialization, social class formation, migration and immigration--occur more rapidly than in Chicago and nowhere did they unfold with more dramatic results. This course employs the history of Chicago as a particularly appropriate case study of key problems in the field of U.S. Social history: the theory and process of urbanization; formation of classes and the evolution of class conflict; immigration, mass migration and ethnic diversity; racial formation and conflict. Readings will include four or five books, plus a course reader with about a dozen articles and documents. Student performance in the course is judged on three criteria: in-class discussion; an oral presentation; and a major research paper on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. We will visit the library and the research paper will be developed in a series of stages -- topic, proposal, bibliography, rough draft, final draft. Please note that classes will involve extensive discussion and participation will constitute an important element in the grading for the course. Lack of participation will result in a lower grade. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
55910	Discussion/ Recitation	B	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	317 Gregory Hall	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: For Students in the History Honors Program. Meets with HIST 498, Section B. Topic: Shipwreck. Description: This course will examine the sea as a cultural location through stories about shipwrecks, castaways, and captives in the early modern and modern era. Yes, of course, we will examine the Titanic, but also the "Tempest," Robinsoe Crusoe, and other historical shipwreck narratives and reflections on shipwreck in modern times. Along the way, we will explore the "Raft of the Medusa," the mutiny on the Bounty, and the "unredeemed captive" in the French and Indian wars. The ultimate goal is for students to write their own research paper about ships, wrecks, and sailors. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
55911	Discussion/ Recitation	C	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	317 Gregory Hall	Todorova, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: For Students in the History Honors Program. Meets with HIST 498, Section C. Topic: History of Travel/Travel as History. Description: What can the study of travel tell us about our past and present? How do we approach travelogues as historical sources? This course offers an introduction to the ways scholars are thinking about the phenomenon of travel in a historical perspective. It will survey the ars apodemica, or "art of travel" in antiquity, the medieval and early modern period, and will focus on the rationale and mechanisms of travel from the Enlightenment to the present. Key topics we will consider are the delineation of types of travel in different periods according to a variety of characteristics: motives, provenance, social class,duration, means of transport, and so on. Others include aspects of the role of travel as a method of research, i.e. the accumulation and systematization of descriptive and evaluative knowledge through travel for the formation of new disciplines and genres in the humanities: anthropology, sociology, political science, comparative history, literature, etc. We shall explore different regions of "discovery"-Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Southern and Eastern Europe, finally Europe as a whole and North America itself, and will deal with questions of representation. Special attention will be devoted to the problem of women travelers and their work. Throughout, our central objective will be to attempt to evaluate travelogues as historical sources. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
55912	Discussion/ Recitation	D	3:30PM -5:20PM	T	331 Gregory Hall	Levine, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: For Students in the History Honors Program. Meets with HIST 498, Section D. Topic: Slavery, Serfdom, & Emancipation in Comparative Perspective. Description: This senior seminar sets the United States' experience with slavery and its elimination in comparative perspective. More specifically, it compares the historical trajectory of slavery in the United States with the rise and decline of this and other forms of bound labor elsewhere in the world. Class discussion will focus upon readings that address one or another general or locally specific aspect of the international comparison. Among other subjects, we will investigate the origins of and differences between serfdom and slavery. We will ask why in some cases emancipation occurred in a violent and revolutionary manner but in others occurred peacefully and gradually. We will ask how the experience of emancipation in one country influenced developments in others. Finally, we will look at the long-term impact that different types of emancipation had on upon post-emancipation life in various places. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.