HIST 502

Spring 2016 All Classes

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Prob in Comparative History

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Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive comparative examinations of particular issues in the histories of multiple countries, cultures or periods; emphasizes methodology, the discipline of comparative history, and the nature of historiography in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary context.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

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

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HIST 502 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32431	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	T	318 Gregory Hall	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Info: Title: Hisotry of the Present: Genealogies & Narrative of War in Afghanistan & Iraq. Topic: As a class, we will try to configure intellectual tools to understand the practice and experience of madern war in Afghanistan and Iraq drawing on, among other things, Michel Foucault's concept of "The History of the Present", the one-hundredth anniversary of World War I, the pedagogy of the Vietnam War, and the lessons of counter-insurgency. We will begin with an analysis of the memory of literature of war in the twentieth century, including Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory, daniel Swift's Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War, Jean Larteguy's 1960 novel about Algeria, The Centurions, Tim O'Brien's Vietnam classic, The Things They Carried, and Anthony Swofford's Persian Gulf memoir, Jarhead, and then we will move on to work in common to find finger and hand grips on the wars since 2001. We will be making the class up together. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.