ClassInfo - Spring 2017 History Classes

Spring 2017 | HIST 8630 Section 001: Seminar in World History (68073)

Instructor(s): Mary Jo Maynes
Ann Waltner
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: HIST 5980 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Thu 01:25PM - 03:30PM

UMTC, West Bank

Walter W Heller Hall 1210B

Course Catalog Description:: Critical examination of historical literature dealing with theoretical approaches to world history and teaching of world history. prereq: instr consent
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mayne001+HIST8630+Spring2017 http://classinfo.umn.edu/?waltn001+HIST8630+Spring2017
Class Description:: The seminar will center on discussion of sets of comparative readings about women, gender, sexuality, and domestic life/household dynamics in world history. The sets of readings are clustered thematically but cross a wide temporal and cultural range. The broad themes include: gender and sexuality in comparative family/kinship systems; gendering power (political authority, statebuilding, empires); the birth of the gods (gender, sexuality, world religions); and ?greed, lust, and gender? (gendering labor and markets). Within each general theme, we will attend to questions of historical periodization, and typically discuss work from premodern as well as modern historical eras. We will examine the construction of gender, sexuality, and family/household dynamics through global-historical processes, and also the domestic/household realm as a site of world history. The comparative and thematically organized discussions will be accompanied by systematic attention to questions of historiography and world-history pedagogy. Grad students in history will write a syllabus for a world history course that incorporates the seminar's theme and problematics. Students from other programs/disciplines can develop a related project pertinent to their discipline.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68073/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 13 November 2011

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