HIST 200

Spring 2019 All Classes

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Intro Hist Interpretation

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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.

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 2019
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34112	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:00AM -10:20AM	MW	221 Gregory Hall	Wilson, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Info: Topic: Science, Technology, Medicine in East Asia Description: The two primary aims of this course are to read important works in the history of science and to explore how science was used to produce various bodies of knowledge about people, their environments, and their technologies in East Asia. The first half of the semester will focus on old and new research about science within the Qing (China), Joseon (Korea), and Tokugawa (Japan) regimes. The second half of the semester will examine more popular uses and interpretations of science in twentieth-century East Asia. In exploring these topics, you will also learn a variety of historical methods that will help you investigate how people in the past made sense of the worlds within which they lived. Assessment will be based on short reading response papers, engagement in class discussion, and a semester-long research project on a topic chosen by the student.
34113	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -2:20PM	MW	221 Gregory Hall	Schneider, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Info: Topic: The American Family Description: Families have been at the core of human existence for a long time. Ideas and imagery of what families should be continue to influence contemporary American life. This class will focus on the changes in American families from the pre-revolutionary period to the twenty-first century as a way to understand and research history from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. From the family ideals (and dysfunctions) of the Puritans to "Hippie" families in the 1960s, and the families conceived beyond the gender binary in the 21st century, the seminar will approach different understandings of family as embedded in America's shifting national identity. Class requirements will be short textual analyses and summaries, a bibliography and a 12-18 page paper on a subject of the student's choice.
34114	Lecture-Discussion	C	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	221 Gregory Hall	Chettiar, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Info: Title: Madness and Society Topic: The discipline of psychiatry is foundational to our understanding of a wide range of modern concepts from personality and responsibility through to illness and deviance. Our understanding of our own identities, our motivations, and our patterns of behavior are all deeply influenced by modern psychiatric ideas. This course provides a broad overview of psychiatric practice in Europe from the beginning of state-regulated asylums through to the advent of current policies of pharmaceutical treatment and care in the community. Using a mixture of secondary sources and primary texts, we will examine how the diagnosis and treatment of madness has been shaped through the rich interaction of social, scientific, political, economic and cultural factors.
39385	Lecture-Discussion	D	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	315 Gregory Hall	Brosseder, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Info: Topic: The History of Native People in Latin America Description: How can we write the history of the indigenous people of Latin America from the colonial period to the modern era? This question has vexed generations of historians and they have found different ways of writing about the native people from Meso- and South America, their cultures, and their adaptations to new cultural influences. By reading the most outstanding of these historians - with a particular focus on the Andes - we want to analyze how Western concepts of natives have changed over time. Whenever we can, we try to counter these narratives with native peoples' own historiographies and self-perceptions. By doing so, we are induced to reflect upon changing historical methods over almost six hundred years; not least to reflect upon our own historical methods.