HIST 498

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Research and Writing Seminar

Credit: 3 hours.

Capstone course required of all majors. Students will make history by researching and writing a work of original scholarship. Several of these seminars are offered each term and each focuses on a special topic, thus allowing students with similar interests to work through the process of gathering, interpreting, and organizing historical evidence under the direction of an expert in the field. The topics on offer each semester will be listed in the Class Schedule and described in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: HIST 200 and junior standing, or consent of the Director of Undergraduate Studies; 15 hours in history or consent of instructor.

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

Advanced Composition

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HIST 498 class schedule data for spring 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32175	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	Gregory Hall	Hitchins, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section: A. Topic: Empires: Mongols, Mughals, Ottomans. Description: We shall investigate empires through a comparative study of the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan and his successors, the Mughal Empire in India, and the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia and southeastern Europe. We shall also give some attention to the Safavid Empire in Persia. Our main concerns will be the formation of empires, their armies and methods of warfare, their conquests and treatment of conquered peoples, their political and economic organization, their religious and legal institutions, especially Islamic, their relations with Europe, and their decline. Besides surveys of each empire, we shall inquire into the nature of empires in general from Roman times to the twentieth century and thus place our three case studies within this broad historical context in order to see how empire building evolved. There will be readings, discussions and a research paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32178	Discussion/ Recitation	B	10:00AM -11:50AM	T	Gregory Hall	Ghamari-Tabrizi, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section: B. Topic: Orientalism and Its Critics. Description: This course examines the ways in which the Orient has been imagined and described by Western missionaries, artists, filmmakers, and colonial administrators. This course requires original research in the library archives. Students are expected to work on group projects and presentations as well as individual research for a final paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
43311	Discussion/ Recitation	C	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	Gregory Hall	Crowston, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section C. Topic: The History of the Body in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Description: Seemingly the most natural element of human existence, the body is in fact deeply historical. Not only has the understanding of the body changed dramatically over time, humans' experience and perception of their own bodies has also undergone profound transitions. With its monumental economic, social, political and intellectual innovations, eighteenth-century Europe is a crucial time and place in which to examine the body as a historical artifact. This course will explore the history of the body in eighteenth-century Europe from a wide variety of perspectives. We will read primary and secondary sources related to the laboring body and the function of apprenticeship as a means of transmitting embodied craft skills. We will also study the gendered and sexed body, the relationship between new concepts about race and imperial expansion, and the development of medical and intellectual theories about the role of the body's senses in creating knowledge. Work, sex, pain, pleasure, blood, and racial difference -- these topics and more will be the subjects of our readings. Students will be encouraged to think creatively and follow their own interests in selecting questions for their research papers. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32180	Discussion/ Recitation	D	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	Lincoln Hall	Canales, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section D. Topic: Technology and Experience. Description: This course analyzes the role of technology in major historical transformations. Did the invention of the stirrup in the 9th century helped transform Carolingian society into a feudal system? Did Gutenberg's printing press bring about the Reformation? Did the invention of the cotton gin lead to the American Civil War by making cotton picking lucrative through slavery? Did "The Pill" cause a sexual revolution? Technology and Experience will analyze various ways in which historians introduce novel inventions into their narratives with the purpose of thinking critically about "technological determinism." Students will read and discuss texts that explore ways of treating things and objects as historical actors. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.