HIST 3283 is also offered in Fall 2023
HIST 3283 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2017 | HIST 3283 Section 090: Marx, Capital, and History: An Introduction to Marxist Theory and History (69722)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
HIST 5283 Section 090
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Explore Marx's understanding of capitalism/its history. Marx's argument regarding historical specificity of capitalism as economic/social condition.
- Class Description:
- In this course we will come closer to an understanding of Marx's account of the history of capitalism. We will do this through a close reading of volume one of his three-volume work, Capital. This important book offers simultaneously an explanation of the mechanisms specific to capitalism, that alternatively produce periods of rapid innovation and destruction, and describes the social conditions that gave rise to capitalism in the first place. We will read most of the 33 chapters, though not in order, paying close attention to the analysis, the structure of presentation, and the development of Marx's argument that capitalism constituted as a particular historical social form. This course is an introduction therefore to Marx's thinking on capitalism, his history of its appearance, and his history of its development. At the end of the course, students will have attained a nuanced understanding of Marx's thinking on one of the most important subjects of the day.
- Grading:
- 4 take home essay exams
- Class Format:
- Discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69722/1173
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/isett003_HIST3283_Spring2016.doc (Spring 2016)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 October 2015
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