HIST 200

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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 fall 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32494	Lecture-Discussion	A	11:00AM -12:20PM	MW	315 Gregory Hall	Whittington, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: Topic: Borders, Walls, and Frontiers: Making Others, Making Ourselvs Description: Despite the claims that borders have become increasingly irrelevant in a globalizing and interconnected world, recent events underscore their enduring importance. Indeed, borders and frontiers have long been at the center of creating states and societies. In this course, we will investigate the history of borders and border-making, drawing on examples from around the world and across time. Meetings will engage themes of migration, citizenship, mobility, statehood, nations and nationalism, race, gender, and empire. We will also consider how the history of borders, walls, and frontiers illuminates contemporary issues, including US domestic politics, the tightening of borders in response to a global pandemic, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Readings and assignments introduce historical methodologies, as students learn to analyze and work with sources.
32497	Lecture-Discussion	B	1:00PM -2:20PM	MW	315 Gregory Hall	Asaka, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: Topic: US Expansion to 1877 Description: Students will acquaint themselves with secondary scholarship and primary sources on the early history of U.S. expansion. The decades between the birth of the nation and end of Reconstruction saw the formal additions of continental territory through diplomatic, military, and extralegal means and attempts to invade Central America and the Caribbean to extend slavery. Continental expansion was coupled with the annexation of islands in the Pacific and Caribbean and the formation of treaties with Asian countries to gain access to products, markets, and human labor. Students will study these historical developments with an emphasis on the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality shaped and were shaped by the trajectories of U.S. expansion.
32500	Lecture-Discussion	C	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	307 Gregory Hall	Fu, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: Topic: Between China and the World: Hong Kong and Its Cinema Description: This is an interdisciplinary course with emphasis on how to properly understand motion pictures in its different layers of historical contexts and to approach it as historical sources. This is also a thematic introduction to the history and politics of Hong Kong cinema from the Cold War to the post-1997 period. As the world’s “gateway” to China, British Hong Kong had taken over Shanghai after 1949 to become the so-called “Hollywood of the East”. Catering to a global Chinese diaspora market, the colony was the world’s third largest film producers. And some of the popular genres it created during the Cold War period—martial arts and gangster films—have become important parts of global popular culture. Our course will explore the century-long history of its development, both as significant part of Hong Kong’s transformations from a colonial backwater to a global metropolis, and its key role in constructing the city’s cultural identity in between China and the world.
39271	Lecture-Discussion	D	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	321 Gregory Hall	Jaimes, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: Topic: Monarchy, Middle Ages to the Present Description: This course will examine the institution of monarchy, specifically in the context of European society, but with consideration to some countries outside of the European continent. This course will analyze why monarchy was, and in many cases remains, a predominant form of societal structuring, how monarchs themselves maintain(ed) power, and how everyday people relate(d) to monarchy. In doing so, we will look at how kingship and queenship changed over the centuries, largely in response to significant movements such as the Enlightenment and nationalism and how, even today, monarchs rule over many countries, albeit largely as figureheads. This course is meant to provide students with an introduction to historical analysis by examining both primary and secondary sources, grappling with key terms and concepts, and the construction of an independent project.