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Spring 2017Department of History7941310115697000GRADUATECourse Description GuideUniversity of MassachusettsDepartment of HistoryGraduate Course Description GuideSpring 2017Advanced undergraduates are invited to inquire about enrolling in graduate courses. Such enrollment depends on the permission of individual instructors who should be contacted directly. Questions can also be directed to the Graduate Program Director, Anna Taylor, at annat@history.umass.edu. 601European HistoriographyJ. Heuer662Museums and Historic SitesS. Redman691JModern ChinaS. Sigrid691VUS and the World in the Age of Emancipation S. Cornell691W/791WWriting HistoryS. Platt693FEmpire and NationP. Srivastava693RReadings in Colonial Latin American HistoryH. Scott697ITopics in US Women’s HistoryL. LovettThe following courses are undergraduate courses in which seats have also been reserved for graduate students with an interest in this topic. Graduate enrollment is capped at 8 for these courses.697CMHistory Communication M. Miller697VWPublic History WorkshopM. MillerYou may take two courses outside the department that will count toward your degree. Check Spire to see graduate course offerings beyond our department. Students often find relevant courses in Anthropology, English, the W.E. B. Du Bois Department of African American Studies; Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, Public Policy, and other places around campus. History 597Under the University Numbering System, M.A. students wishing to enroll in an upper-level undergraduate course (at UMass or on one of the Give College campuses) may do so under the special topics number, History 597, with permission from the instructor and also with the understanding that instructors will require additional work of graduate students in those courses. signed by the faculty member teaching the course (turn this in to Mary Lashway in Herter 612). Check SPIRE for the listings of undergraduate courses. There are forms available in Herter 612 describing the additional work to be bperfromed for graduate credit; these must be signed by the instructor. Students will be responsible for discussing the course requirements with instructors. Please see the Graduate Program Assistant about registration to ensure that a grade will be submitted for you at the end of the semester. Only two 597 courses may count as topics courses towards completion of the M.A. degree. History 696 or 796 (Independent Study)Students may enroll in independent studies as either History 696 (reading independent study) or History 796 (research/writing independent study) with a faculty member overseeing the plan of study. To enroll in History 696 or 796 pick up an independent study form from Mary Lashway in Herter 612. This form must be filled out including name, student number, course number (696 or 796), credits, a detailed description of the plan of work for the independent study (e.g. research paper, book reviews, historiography, essays, etc.), and signed by the professor overseeing the independent study. After it has been filled out and signed it needs to be returned to Mary Lashway to be entered on Spire. Only two independent studies may be counted towards completion of the M.A. degree.Scheduled Courses:601 European HistoriographyJennifer HeuerTuesday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThis course is designed to introduce you to some of the most exciting historical writing on modern Europe. ?We will look at influential ways of approaching history, including competing models of social and cultural history; debates over the uses of microstoria and the limits of historical speculation; and global-history perspectives on Europe's past. ?Specific topics may range from classic questions about the nature of French Revolution or collaboration and resistance under the Nazis, to new inquiries about the development of ethnic and national identities; the dynamics of work and consumer society; and the relationships between imperialism, gender, and sexuality. This course meets the historiography requirement. 662 Museums and Historic SitesSamuel RedmanWednesday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThe aim of this course is to introduce students to some of the many intangible issues surrounding museum and historic site interpretation. We will also be addressing some of these challenges through on-the-ground and digital collaborations with museums in Massachusetts and beyond. Seminar discussion will explore readings, including both theoretical and practical works. Writing assignments will be both practical (writing exhibit labels, digital history websites) and theoretical (analyzing meaning-making in museum exhibits and at historic sites). Students will expand their insights and develop their skills by undertaking a set of “field service” projects for community partners.691J Modern ChinaSigrid SchmalzerThursday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThis is a seminar on the history and historiography of modern China (c. 1800 to present). Expecting that many students will come to the course with primary interests in other areas, we will emphasize comparative and transnational approaches that encourage cross-fertilization with other coursework. Students will further have the opportunity to select some of the readings based on their own interests (for example, gender history, urban history, art history, history of science, etc.). The big question that will frame the first half of the course is: How do we study modern China? Do we seek to make sense of Chinese history with respect to Western history or "on its own terms"? Do we highlight internal causes of change or influences from abroad? And what is "China" anyway—a "civilization," an "empire," a "nation," a "culture"...? We will build the syllabus for the second half of the course based on student interests.691V US and World in the Age of EmancipationSarah CornellThursday, 2:30pm-3:45pmThe history of the U.S. Civil War is often framed as a purely domestic conflict. But global currents shaped the United States on the road to disunion, during the war and its aftermath. In turn, events in the United States during this era influenced developments around the globe. This course will begin by examining the transnationalization of U.S. history from its roots in the 1890s to its recent resurgence in the wake of the Organization of American Historians’ 1996 Project on Internationalizing the Study of American History. We will then investigate U.S. slavery and secession, including the roles played by the Haitian Revolution, West Indian Emancipation, nationalism, unification, and separatist movements in Europe. We will then turn to the war itself, studying its place in 19th-century warfare, foreigners in the armies, and diplomacy. Finally, we will study U.S. Reconstruction in light of transnational trends creating new racial and labor practices and political regimes. Along the way, we will examine different historians’ approaches and methodologies that seek to link the local, national, and the global. Students will be required to write a book review, create a short lesson plan to locate the U.S. Civil War Era in a world perspective, and produce an historiographical essay.691W/791W Writing HistoryStephen PlattMonday, 2:30pm-5:00pmIn this class, students will experiment with the tools for writing history for a general audience. We will cover the structure of various types of historical writing, the sorts of research that support a convincing argument, the audiences writing must attract, and the common writing errors that weaken prose. Several guest speakers will talk about their own approaches to the craft, including the 2017 writer in residence, Allyson Hobbs. During the semester, students will hone their writing and editing skills as they develop their own projects and comment on those of their classmates. The course is designed to meet the requirements of a 600-level seminar, but some students, with consent of the instructor, will be able to enroll in the course at the 700 level, depending on the nature of their proposed semester-long project.693F Empire and NationPriyanka SrivastavaThursday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThis graduate seminar explores the history and historiography of British Empire in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. We will examine how Britain derived power, profit, and glory from its colony in India. We will also examine the ways in which religion, caste, class, and gender constituted the ideas and practices of anti-imperialist nationalism(s) in India. Readings will cover a wide range of topics including indentured servitude; the opium trade; colonial knowledge and power systems, British rule and gender relations; the Mutiny of 1857, Gandhian and subaltern strategies of resistance, and the partition of India in 1947. This seminar is designed to help prepare students for an exam field in British Empire as well as related fields such as global or comparative history, and transnational women’s history. Prior knowledge of Indian history is neither required nor assumed for this course. 693R Readings in Colonial Latin American HistoryHeidi ScottWednesday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThis course examines key moments and processes in the historical trajectories of colonial Latin America, with particular emphasis on the territories ruled by Spain. The principal focal point of discussion is the era of Iberian conquest and the nearly three centuries of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule (ca. 1530 to 1809). Our conversations begin, however, by focusing on indigenous societies prior to European colonization (before 1492) and conclude with reflections on continuity and change between the colonial era and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reading and discussion centers on prominent themes and debates in recent historiography on colonial Latin America. The dynamics of conquest, the creation and characteristics of colonial urban environments, the transformation of religious patterns and thought, the role of slavery in Iberian colonial societies, patterns of rebellion and resistance, and debates over the emergence of patriotic sentiments and attachments are just a few of the themes this course addresses. Wherever possible, class discussions and assignments make use of primary sources (historical texts, maps, and other visual images) in addition to secondary literature. An in-depth historiographical essay forms the centerpiece of written assignments. Students with a broad interest in colonial Latin American history and in the dynamics of colonialism and postcolonial thinking across the globe are encouraged to take this course, in addition to those with a specific interest in Latin America.697I Topics in US Women’s HistoryLaura LovettThursday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThis course will focus on selected topics in U.S. women's and gender history from the colonial era to the present. Our focus will be on how interpretations of women's experience have been influenced by changing conceptions of race ethnicity, sexuality, family, class, religion, region, immigration, economics, and politics. We will consider and compare the lives of Native American women, African American, Asian American women, Latina women, and European American women from the colonial period through industrialization and into the twentieth century. We may also give special consideration to different forms of women's political participation, to the influences of different conceptions of masculinity and femininity on political and cultural discourse, and to changing scientific constructions of body norms, ability and disability, reproduction, race and eugenics, womanhood and motherhood, heterosexuality and homosexuality.114300337820The following courses are undergraduate courses in which seats have also been reserved for graduate students with an interest in this topic. Graduate enrollment is capped at 8 for these courses. 697CM History CommunicationMarla MillerThursday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThis course introduces students to History Communication (#histcomm) as an emerging field. The first-ever national summit on this subject, which brought together 30 thought-leaders from around the nation to help articulate this new field (for more, see?), was convened at UMass in Spring 2016 and followed by a curriculum planning discussion in Summer 2017; this syllabus emerges from those conversations. The course is grounded in the premise that history today is communicated through a wide array of formats and across a growing variety of media platforms, and that history communicators will need to develop new skills at the intersection of our discipline and others, like journalism, communication, technology and design. ?Sites history communication occurs include narrative nonfiction, magazine articles, op-eds, and museum exhibitions, but also policy documents, blogs, podcasts, fiction and nonfiction film, twitter feeds, memes and other places throughout the culture, and audiences include policy makers, federal, state and local officials, educators, students, journalists, funders, pundits, commentators, social media followers, enthusiasts and those with only casual interest in History. ?Students in the course will consider the past and present state of historians' presence in the media, and explore a variety of sites of history communication, from policy briefings to podcasts, and including visual and audio media.697VW Public History WorkshopMarla MillerTuesday, 2:30pm-5:00pm"Public History Workshop" is the name/number the History Department uses for a course in which students explore how historical insight can be put to work in the world by collaborating on a semester-long public history project with a community partner. In Spring 2017, we are partnering with 1) the Humanities Action Lab at the New School for Social Research in New York City to explore the field of Social Justice Humanities through the national collaboration "States of Incarceration: A National Dialog of Local Stories" (see?) and 2) the National Park Service Northeast Region to consider how the creation of a new park around the gun manufactory at Hartford’s Coltsville should address the city’s history and experience with gun violence.Students in the workshop will learn about the emerging field of Social Justice Humanities by connecting with these and other examples/case studies, and contemplate ways that historians can contribute to national dialogues around pressing social issues. ?Students will also get real-world public history experience when, as part of the Humanities Action Lab initiative, they help mount and dismantle (and possibly help evaluate) the traveling exhibition "Statesof Incarceration" when it comes to Northampton (the Forbes Library and Historic Northampton) and Holyoke (the Wauregan Bldg) in March 2017, and also asthey develop a project to contribute to the creation of Hartford's new national park.00The following courses are undergraduate courses in which seats have also been reserved for graduate students with an interest in this topic. Graduate enrollment is capped at 8 for these courses. 697CM History CommunicationMarla MillerThursday, 2:30pm-5:00pmThis course introduces students to History Communication (#histcomm) as an emerging field. The first-ever national summit on this subject, which brought together 30 thought-leaders from around the nation to help articulate this new field (for more, see? HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" ), was convened at UMass in Spring 2016 and followed by a curriculum planning discussion in Summer 2017; this syllabus emerges from those conversations. The course is grounded in the premise that history today is communicated through a wide array of formats and across a growing variety of media platforms, and that history communicators will need to develop new skills at the intersection of our discipline and others, like journalism, communication, technology and design. ?Sites history communication occurs include narrative nonfiction, magazine articles, op-eds, and museum exhibitions, but also policy documents, blogs, podcasts, fiction and nonfiction film, twitter feeds, memes and other places throughout the culture, and audiences include policy makers, federal, state and local officials, educators, students, journalists, funders, pundits, commentators, social media followers, enthusiasts and those with only casual interest in History. ?Students in the course will consider the past and present state of historians' presence in the media, and explore a variety of sites of history communication, from policy briefings to podcasts, and including visual and audio media.697VW Public History WorkshopMarla MillerTuesday, 2:30pm-5:00pm"Public History Workshop" is the name/number the History Department uses for a course in which students explore how historical insight can be put to work in the world by collaborating on a semester-long public history project with a community partner. In Spring 2017, we are partnering with 1) the Humanities Action Lab at the New School for Social Research in New York City to explore the field of Social Justice Humanities through the national collaboration "States of Incarceration: A National Dialog of Local Stories" (see? HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" ) and 2) the National Park Service Northeast Region to consider how the creation of a new park around the gun manufactory at Hartford’s Coltsville should address the city’s history and experience with gun violence.Students in the workshop will learn about the emerging field of Social Justice Humanities by connecting with these and other examples/case studies, and contemplate ways that historians can contribute to national dialogues around pressing social issues. ?Students will also get real-world public history experience when, as part of the Humanities Action Lab initiative, they help mount and dismantle (and possibly help evaluate) the traveling exhibition "Statesof Incarceration" when it comes to Northampton (the Forbes Library and Historic Northampton) and Holyoke (the Wauregan Bldg) in March 2017, and also asthey develop a project to contribute to the creation of Hartford's new national park.Additional Course Options — enrollment requires instructor permissionYou may take two courses outside the department that will count toward your degree. Below are several that may be of interest to you. As always, please refer to SPIRE for the most current class information, and contact the course instructor directly for permission to enroll. This is just a sampling of courses from outside the History Department that may be of interest to our graduate students. Please see Spire and/or departmental websites to see what other courses are available. ................
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