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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Individual supervised work for students who wish to explore an area of interest in history. Before registering, a student must plan a course of study with a member of the History Faculty and secure approval from the Head of the History Faculty. Normal maximum is 6 units; exceptional 9-unit projects occasionally approved. HASS credit awarded only by individual petition to the Subcommittee on the HASS Requirement; minimum of 9 units required for HASS credit.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Develops a teaching knowledge of the field through extensive reading and discussion of major works. Readings cover a broad range of topics (political, economic, social, and cultural) and represent a variety of historical methods. Students make frequent oral presentations and prepare a 20-page review essay.
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Prereq: 21H.991
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2.00 Credits
Historical exploration of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, worship of animal gods, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of animals, display of exotic and performing animals, and pet-keeping. Themes include changing ideas about animal agency and intelligence, our moral obligations to animals, and the limits imposed on the use of animals. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between the study of natural history, both domestic and exotic, by Europeans and Americans, and concrete exploitation of the natural world. Focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the development of social and cultural history in the 20th century. Topics include agrarian history, class, race, and gender as historical categories, historical demography, new economic, and environmental history, microhistory, and history on film. Topics drawn from European, American, and Asian history.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Opportunity for group study of special subject not listed in the regular History curriculum.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
Students writing a thesis in History develop their research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame their research questions and arguments, choose an appropriate methodology for analysis, and draft the introductory and methodology sections of their theses. Includes substantial practice in writing (with revision) and oral presentations.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Completion of work on the senior major thesis under supervision of a faculty thesis advisor. Includes oral presentation of thesis progress early in the term, assembling and revising the final text, and a final meeting with a committee of faculty evaluators to discuss the successes and limitations of the project. Required for students pursuing a full major in History.
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Prereq: 21H.ThT
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3.00 Credits
Intensive focus on the reading and writing skills used to analyze literary texts such as poems by Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare or Langston Hughes; short stories by Chekhov, Joyce, or Alice Walker; and a short novel by Melville or Toni Morrison. Designed not only to prepare students for further work in writing and literary and media study, but also to provide increased confidence and pleasure in their reading, writing, and analytical skills. Students write or revise essays weekly. Enrollment limited.
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Prereq: None
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