Spring 2021 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- Human Rights in History (67484)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 16 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Hist 3020 and jr 2nd term or sr
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:55PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (15 of 15 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67484/1213
Spring 2021 | HIST 4010W Section 003: Research Seminar -- Researching the Long Civil Rights Movement (67485)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 16 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Hist 3020 and jr 2nd term or sr
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:25AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 18 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67485/1213
Fall 2020 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- Murder and the Law in the Middle Ages (34132)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 16 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Hist 3020, 3021, 3022 and jr 2nd Term or Senior
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:40PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (17 of 15 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34132/1209
Fall 2020 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- The Significance of Violence: Theory and Practice (34133)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 16 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Hist 3020, 3021, 3022 and jr 2nd Term or Senior
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 04:10PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (15 of 15 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
The term violence implies both aggression inflicted and aggression received. Violence can therefore be physical, moral or symbolic. Furthermore, it can be more or less intense depending on the circumstances. Françoise Héritier, in her two-volume work provides a definition of violence as "all physical or mental constraints which induce terror, displacement, misfortune, suffering or the death of a loved one; any intrusive act that has the effect, either voluntary or involuntary of dispossessing others; the damage or destruction of inanimate objects." This definition suggests the complexity of theorizing and categorizing violence.
Ecofeminists have argued that oppression and violence form a continuum; that the differences in the exploitation of the earth, of domestic violence, of social violence, of all-out warfare are simply a matter of degree. In other words, all violence is the same. Or is it?
The fact violence is inherent to human behavior has produced an extensive interdisciplinary literature on the subject. This literature has tended to focus on four main strands: institutional violence (war, torture, dictatorial practices, police brutality, genocide); gender, racial or social violence (homophobic aggression, domestic violence, misogynist killings, racial lynching, urban riots, rural vandalism, immigration stigma, religious sanctions), textual violence (exclusionary discourses, hate speech, violence in literature) and social trauma studies (memory syndromes of war, genocide, slavery, dictatorship, colonization, decolonization, exile, etc.). By creating these theoretical frameworks do scholarly theories of violence obscure or illuminate our understanding of its practices? In other words, are the Ecofeminists right or is violence a more complex phenomenon that needs to be analytically teased out?
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Students who need a senior paper class to graduate.
- Learning Objectives:
- This course will provide you with the opportunity to do your own research on a topic of your choosing relating to violence. The course will introduce students to the way in which a research paper is conceptualized, researched and written. You will be introduced to the methodologies of researching and analyzing different types of violence as well as guidance in writing a research proposal, producing a first draft and revising the draft to create the final paper.
- Grading:
- You will be graded on the various stages that lead up to the final paper. These grades will merely be indicative of your progress. The most important grade, which will count as your final grade, will be on the final paper.
- Exam Format:
- There are no exams. The aim is to write a good senior paper.
- Class Format:
- On Line
- Workload:
- Presentation of a Proposal, Thesis, Bibliography, 2 Drafts and the Final Paper.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34133/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 July 2020
Spring 2020 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- Modern Political Revolutions (65989)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:25AMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1210ABC
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (15 of 15 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65989/1203
Spring 2020 | HIST 4010W Section 003: Research Seminar -- Social Justice: Using the Past for the Future (65991)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:40PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 435
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (14 of 15 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Did you know that you can write a high-quality research paper on Japan by using English-language materials? This course is for those who are interested in conducting research on a topic related to Japan and the Japanese empire (such as colonial Korea and Taiwan) for a term paper, a senior paper, or your own enjoyment. No Japanese language is required; in fact, the main purpose of the course is to introduce collections of primary materials (in our libraries and online) in English from the past and the present. Those who want to incorporate Japanese-language materials will have a chance to do so as well. Another purpose of the course is to learn how to do research and write a research paper. Students will do a pilot research project (pre-arranged by the instructor) at the beginning, and conduct his/her own research project in the latter half of the semester. The course is in a seminar style, with many hands-on mini assignments that guide you step by step to complete a short research paper by the end of the course. It would work best if you take this course before senior paper writing, but it can be taken in conjunction with senior paper writing. Please consult with the instructor.
- Grading:
- 30% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
15% Reports/Papers
15% In-class Presentations - Exam Format:
- research paper
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
30% Discussion
30% Small Group Activities
10% Field Trips
10% Web Based Archive visits, computer lab demonstrations, etc - Workload:
- 80 Pages Reading Per Week
35 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: other small weekly assignments - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65991/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2014
Fall 2019 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- Drug Use, Drug Abuse, and the War on Drugs (34571)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:55PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 140
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 20 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34571/1199
Fall 2019 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- Jerusalem: the Contested City, Ancient to Modern (34572)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:25AMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 15
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (14 of 20 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34572/1199
Spring 2019 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- Researching the Long Civil Rights Movement (67165)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:40PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (23 of 20 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67165/1193
Spring 2019 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- Sex, Crime, and Riots in the 19th Century (67865)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:40PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 210
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (23 of 20 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67865/1193
Fall 2018 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- The Significance of Violence: Theory and Practice (34719)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 184
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (17 of 18 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34719/1189
Fall 2018 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- Drug Use, Drug Abuse, and the War on Drugs (34720)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:55PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 135
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (15 of 18 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34720/1189
Spring 2018 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- "Converting" the Mediterranean World (68904)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 04:10PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (23 of 20 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68904/1183
Spring 2018 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- Jerusalem: the Contested City, Ancient to Modern (68905)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:25AMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 30
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (18 of 17 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68905/1183
Fall 2017 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- The Black Death (17833)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 317
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17833/1179
Spring 2017 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar (68066)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Wed 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1210B
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mayne001+HIST4010W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- ?Modern Political Revolutions: Political Contention and Global Historical Transformations? With the publication in 1962 of The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 Eric Hobsbawm took the history of revolutions in new directions by connecting political revolutions with economic transformation. Hobsbawm also anticipated later developments in global history by suggesting connections between revolutionary ideas and events in Europe and contemporaneous or subsequent revolutions elsewhere in the world ? in the Americas and beyond. Starting with a global reframing of `the age of revolutions? this course will focus on select revolutionary moments from the mid-18th century to the early 21st century that hold particular significance in terms of global dynamics. We examine a continuum of political movements and processes that resulted in transfers of power over states, such as the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. But we will not limit ourselves to ?successful? revolutions; we will also include cases where revolutionary situations did not result directly in regime change, such as the Taiping Rebellion or the 1848-49 revolts in Europe. The first half of the semester will be devoted to common reading and development of frameworks for analyzing revolutions. In the second half, each student will do a research project addressing selected dimensions of a particular revolution. In addition, the student research project should involve some element of tracking specific global flows ? of ideas, people, processes, or political practices ? that connected the revolutionary movement to other event across the globe or across time.
- Grading:
- 40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
25% Reflection Papers
10% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation
5% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
40% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
25-30 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
5 Homework Assignment(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68066/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2014
Spring 2017 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar (68067)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 110
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?reyer001+HIST4010W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68067/1173
Fall 2016 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar (33690)
- Instructor(s)
- https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/chambers" target="lookup">Sarah Chambers
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Wed 01:25PM - 03:55PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 150
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- Encounters in Early America http://classinfo.umn.edu/?chambers+HIST4010W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
Beginning in 1492, peoples from the continents of Europe, Africa and America began to encounter each other across the Americas, setting off centuries of confrontation and adaptation, cultural clashes and cultural mixing, enslavement and resistance. Histories of these encounters were dominated for decades by the European perspective, but scholars have been increasingly seeking new sources and methods to uncover and interpret the perspectives and actions of Native peoples and Africans. In addition to written narratives in European languages, they have analyzed sources in Native languages, visual representations, and material culture. In this seminar, we will explore some of these approaches and sources together through topics such as first contact, military conflict, mapping, religion, and culture. Then you will have the opportunity to write a research paper on a topic of your choice on the theme of encounters in the early Americas. (You may also choose a theme related to early modern encounters elsewhere in the globe.) Although most of the papers will likely focus on the 15th to the 18th centuries, "first" encounters have continued and you may propose any paper that fits within the theme. Our seminar will take advantage of the excellent primary sources available in the James Ford Bell Library, and you will have the option of using a source/sources from that collection for your research.
- Grading:
Participation: 20%
Short Response Papers to Readings: 15%
Assignments building toward research paper: 15%
First Draft of Research Paper: 15%
Final Paper: 35%
- Class Format:
- Discussion, research, presentations, in-class skills building
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33690/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 April 2016
Spring 2016 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar (54769)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 140
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Sex, Violence and Death in Victorian London http://classinfo.umn.edu/?clark106+HIST4010W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- In this course we will explore together the seamy underworld of Victorian Britain. With the techniques of historical investigation, we will survey the gaslight streets of Whitechapel, inquiring why prostitutes solicited men on streetcorners, even if they feared Jack the Ripper. We will trace the course of sewage from elegant apartments down through the streets and into water pumps, where children fetched the water that would infect them with cholera. We will discover why graves were covered with stout iron bars; the body snatchers who dug up fresh coffins to provide corpses for anatomists. Students will become historical detectives, for instance reading trial transcripts of robbery and murder from the Old Bailey Sessions and comparing them to newspaper accounts. We will look at Victorian maps which detailed the class compositions of neighborhoods. We will compare how other historical detectives interpret this evidence from the perspectives of medical history, history of crime, gender and sexuality history, and popular history. Popular histories are entertaining, but what do they leave out? Are they accurate? Students will learn how to write their own histories using these primary sources. Students who are planning to write a senior paper will also get a chance to work on their proposals.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54769/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2014
Spring 2016 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar (57711)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1210A
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: The 1950s: Conforming to a Decade of Change http://classinfo.umn.edu/?smathieu+HIST4010W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57711/1163
Spring 2016 | HIST 4010W Section 004: Research Seminar (59998)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 004
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 20
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: The Arab Spring http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hakimc+HIST4010W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59998/1163
Fall 2015 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar (23881)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 140
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?reyer001+HIST4010W+Fall2015 SEMINAR TITLE: The Medieval Mediterranean: Merchants and Pirates
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23881/1159
Fall 2015 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- Encounters in Early America (24082)
- Instructor(s)
- https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/chambers" target="lookup">Sarah Chambers
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 220
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Encounters in Early America
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24082/1159
Fall 2015 | HIST 4010W Section 090: Research Seminar (34017)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 090
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue 05:45PM - 07:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 60
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?schro800+HIST4010W+Fall2015 SEMINAR TITLE: Jerusalem: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Contested City
- Class Description:
- This course examines the history of Jerusalem, shaped by the three major religions that consider the city sacred: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We examine the ways in which Jerusalem was developed since ancient times by each dominant religion, and how the contest between national groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the city in the modern period. Jerusalem has been considered sacred by millions of people who do not live there but who feel they have much at stake in the control of the city. This has been a major influence in the history of Jerusalem, shaping the daily lives of its residents. Jerusalem is unique because there is no city in the world that has been as contested for such a long period of time. Consequently, writings about Jerusalem offer many different perspectives. Interpretations of its history and the religious meaning of the city are usually controversial. Students will confront many different, contradictory, and often opposing viewpoints of Jerusalem in the writings of scholars, writers, travelers, residents, and religious and political leaders from ancient to modern times. Yet rather than privileging a particular interpretation over another, students will study how to analyze the evidence, and by so doing, achieve a better understanding of why Jerusalem has both been held sacred and fought over for 3,000 years.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34017/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2014
Spring 2015 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar (55400)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 415
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Climate Change in History
- Class Description:
- Weather affects each of us every day. Philosophers, e.g. John Searle, categorize weather as a brute fact?it is what it is regardless of how we think about it. Climate, by contract, is a construct we create as we pull together information about weather. The content of the course begins with a discussion regarding how we conceptualize climate and how throughout the history of the West we understand climate either from a classificatory (making sense of patterns) or practical (will I get wet today) perspective. For example, scholars such as Isidore of Seville (d. 635) discuss climate in regard to understanding patterns, while farmers react to climate by denoting particular months for planting crops of various types. There will also be a discussion of the relation between climate and weather. Students will write several short papers examining what scholars say about climate. For example, what is the consensus view by specialists regarding the pre-history of the Minnesota "space" in regard to its climate history. Another short paper will deal with the way in which scholars treat glaciers as providing information regarding climate in historical times. Yet another paper will treat how climate change, e.g. the cold period during the third through early sixth century manifested itself in Europe. One good example is the migration of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from the North Sea coast which was flooded to Britain. Most of the information that students will need for small papers can be found on line or from journals that can be accessed on line through sites such as JASTOR. Tern papers of about 20 pages in length with be on topics such as "How did farmers adjust to climate change by altering the agricultural calendar?" What impact did climate change have on war? What impact did climate change on exploration? Of course, all papers will be specifically focused on particular time periods and geographical locations so as to make the research possible in the relative short period of time of a semester. This research will be undertaken in both primary sources, e.g. the records of the flood of the Nile, agricultural calendars, chronicles and other such sources that are available in English translation.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55400/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 2 December 2014
Spring 2015 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- 20th Century Gender History (58841)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Wed 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58841/1153
Spring 2015 | HIST 4010W Section 003: Research Seminar -- The 1950s: Conforming to a Decade of Change (67632)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 30
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Description:
- The 1950s: A Decade of Conformity? is a new research seminar that explores how the 1950s, the decade that saw America move from war to peace and from segregation to integration, radically transformed American society. This seminar calls into question common perceptions of the 1950s as a decade of conformity, arguing instead that the 1950s gave way to major civil, legal, and cultural shake ups, especially with respect to how we imagined gender, youth, and race. The course is designed as an intensive look at one decade in American history, with specific attention to how those years changed all aspects of American life, including the Cold War, the space program, urbanization patterns, leisure, politics, religion, and gender relations, and popular culture. Best of all, students will make direct use of primary sources when examining the Fifties. For example, when studying the early Civil Rights Movement and events at Little Rock, we will use photographs as our main analytical tool. Given that this class is conceived as a writing intensive seminar, students will be asked to write short critical analyses of the primary sources used in the class. Students will also research and write an 8 page paper on any dimension of the 1950s.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67632/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2014
Spring 2015 | HIST 4010W Section 004: Research Seminar (67633)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementTopics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 004
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Wed 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 430
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary. prereq: Jr or Sr history major or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Revolutions in Modern World History
- Class Description:
- ?Modern Political Revolutions: Political Contention and Global Historical Transformations? With the publication in 1962 of The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 Eric Hobsbawm took the history of revolutions in new directions by connecting political revolutions with economic transformation. Hobsbawm also anticipated later developments in global history by suggesting connections between revolutionary ideas and events in Europe and contemporaneous or subsequent revolutions elsewhere in the world ? in the Americas and beyond. Starting with a global reframing of `the age of revolutions? this course will focus on select revolutionary moments from the mid-18th century to the early 21st century that hold particular significance in terms of global dynamics. We examine a continuum of political movements and processes that resulted in transfers of power over states, such as the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. But we will not limit ourselves to ?successful? revolutions; we will also include cases where revolutionary situations did not result directly in regime change, such as the Taiping Rebellion or the 1848-49 revolts in Europe. The first half of the semester will be devoted to common reading and development of frameworks for analyzing revolutions. In the second half, each student will do a research project addressing selected dimensions of a particular revolution. In addition, the student research project should involve some element of tracking specific global flows ? of ideas, people, processes, or political practices ? that connected the revolutionary movement to other event across the globe or across time.
- Grading:
- 40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
25% Reflection Papers
10% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation
5% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
40% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
25-30 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
5 Homework Assignment(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67633/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2014
Fall 2014 | HIST 4010W Section 001: Research Seminar -- Making Minnesota, 1600-1889 (24409)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Wed 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 278
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary.
- Class Description:
- This course is a History 3010 research seminar and, as such, is specifically designed to introduce students both to the content of a specific historical topic and to practice of historical research. Our topic this term will be the making of Minnesota: we will reconstruct and assess the key events and processes that, over more than two centuries, resulted in the creation of the state of Minnesota in the shape and form we know it today. We will focus specifically on the experiences of the diverse peoples involved in making Minnesota from the mid 1600s, the era of initial contact between indigenous peoples and Europeans, through 1858 when Minnesota formally achieved statehood, and up to the decisive Dakota Conflict of 1862. Readings in eye-witness accounts and scholarly books and articles, class discussions, field trips, and individual research projects will examine the overlapping phases of encounter, exploration and trade, military and diplomatic dispossession of the Dakota and Ojibwe, immigration and settlement by white and black Americans and Europeans, and the collective transition from frontier zone of encounter through contested territory to organized state. With the instructor's guidance, students will produce substantial (12-15 page) research projects based on original materials in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society and other local archives.
- Grading:
- 20% Reports/Papers
30% Special Projects
10% Attendance
15% In-class Presentations
25% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
5% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Laboratory
15% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
10% Field Trips - Workload:
- 50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
1 Special Project(s)
1 Book Report(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/24409/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2014
Fall 2014 | HIST 4010W Section 002: Research Seminar -- The Medieval Mediterranean: Merchants and Pirates (25964)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 125
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary.
- Class Description:
- This writing intensive course examines the Mediterranean world in the period 500-1500 as a vast geography where encounters of different cultures were common. Attention will be paid to economic relations, commercial techniques, piracy, cultural exchange, and the construction of identity, with the reexamination of paradigms such as the Pirenne thesis. A maritime culture united the inhabitants of the coasts. Where there was trade, there was piracy, and merchants and pirates will provide a particular focus as well as a vehicle for exploring cross-cultural interaction amongst the varied ethnicities and religious groups of the Mediterranean world. Recent scholarship on the Mediterranean has focused on connectivities, micro-environments, the uniqueness of islands, and the agricultural sphere in a geographic tradition that follows the path-breaking work of Fernand Braudel. This course will consider the urban and rural dimensions of the Mediterranean region. Finally, the political and military aspects of Mediterranean history will be examined. Through writing assignments that involve primary sources students should gain a deeper understanding of a region that continues to fascinate us today.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25964/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 9 April 2014
Fall 2014 | HIST 4010W Section 003: Research Seminar (26276)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
- HIST 4010V Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Mon 01:00PM - 03:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 335
- Course Catalog Description:
- Work closely with professors on in-depth investigations of historical topics. Guided instruction in issues, methods, sources. Topics vary.
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Drug Use, Drug Abuse and the War on Drugs
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/26276/1149
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