HIST 200

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Intro Hist Interpretation

Credit: 3 hours.

Through the careful examination of a specific topic or theme, this course provides a thorough introduction to historical interpretation. Particular attention will be devoted to research strategies, writing practices, handling primary and secondary sources, and the analysis of historiography.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours with permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Prerequisite: A 100-level course in history or consent of instructor.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

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HIST 200 class schedule data for spring 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34112	Lecture-Discussion	A	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	327 Gregory Hall	Rabin, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic: Gender and Crime in the Early Modern World. Description: What can the study of crime and punishment tell us about the past and about our present? This course will explore the range of behavior considered criminal in the early modern world (1450-1815) and set it beside a study of gender to examine the ways in which definitions of crime intersected, shaped, and were shaped by notions of femininity, masculinity, and gender. We will consider the importance of legal codes to early modern conceptions of order and lawfulness and study how different legal systems enforced the law. The class will also examine systems of punishment and how theories about punishment varied depending on religious belief and cultural values. Using a comparative approach we will study crime and gender in early modern Europe, colonial America, the Caribbean, the near east, and Asia. The readings will include primary sources like trial transcripts, newspapers, and pamphlets as well as a range of scholarship on these questions. Assignments include response papers, a mid-term examination, and a research paper based on primary sources, and a poster presentation.
34113	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -2:20PM	MW	327 Gregory Hall	Schneider, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic: The 1960s. Description: This class will focus on the History of the 1960s, a tumultuous decade in the social and political history of the United States. The class has two main goals: 1. Provide a solid knowledge of the history of this period and its social and economic developments. 2. Develop skills as a researcher, analytic reader and writer in academic history. The first part of the semester will be devoted to the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s on. The "Great Society ", the Vietnam War and urban unrest will take up the middle of the semester. The last part of the semester will be devoted to the cultural and social diversity that developed from the mid 1960s on. While the classic forms of historical writing will form some of the core readings, sources and other materials will also come from the social sciences, oral histories, newspapers, document reports, art exhibitions, movies and music. Historians need to feel comfortable with all types of sources to do their work effectively!
34114	Lecture-Discussion	C	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	221 Gregory Hall	Hertzman, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic: History of "Black Music" in the Americas and Beyond. Description: Can we use music to write history? What, exactly, is "black music," and how has the category shaped (and been shaped by) larger understandings of race, music, and nation? This course explores such questions while providing a broad introduction to what it means to write history and an exploration of how history can help prepare you for a wide range of career paths. In this version of History 200, you will develop research skills, familiarize yourself with new technology, and learn how to ask and answer difficult, complex questions, all while listening to, discussing, and writing about great music.
39385	Lecture-Discussion	D	10:00AM -11:20AM	MW	325 David Kinley Hall	Oberdeck, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic: Making History Local: Approaches to Place-Based US History in Champaign-Urbana and Beyond. Description: This introduction to historical interpretation will focus on histories that focus on local places and communities in order to illuminate broader historical questions, while also engaging with specific communities interested in preserving and investigating their own past. We will consider the methods historians use to look at place-based history in terms of landscape/environment; the built environment of private and public spaces and their meanings; oral histories of community and local struggle related to particular places; /global connections; public history and its institutions; and the different questions deriving from the study of rural as opposed to urban places. The class will engage in a group project transcribing a local oral history of the 5th and Hill neighborhood in Champaign and its movement for environmental justice, will serve as a "laboratory" for connecting some of these approaches to a practical project. Methodological as well as historiographical readings featuring various issues arising from the project of place-based history will illustrate the relevance of this worker to history in other local places. In addition to the group project, students will each develop a rationale and plan of research for an imagined historical project connecting local sources to broader historical issues, as well as a number of shorter exercises involving the analysis of historical arguments and various kinds of primary sources.