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Fall 2018  |  HIST 1411W Section 001: The Family from 10,000 BCE to the Present (33858)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
HIST 3411W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
West Bank Skyway AUDITORIUM
Enrollment Status:
Open (65 of 66 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
How family life, has played and continues to play a major role in world history. Lectures, labs, assignments. prereq: Fr or soph or fewer than 60 cr
Class Description:
Since the beginning of human culture, the family has been a key site where world-historical processes have unfolded. Family life, in turn, has always been shaped by local and global historical dynamics. These two observations provide the starting point for this course. The course is organized around family dimensions of world history from pre-historic times to the present. We begin by examining the family as the site of emergence of the earliest human societies and evaluate evidence of family life and gender relations that challenge older notions of "Man the Hunter." We then look at connections between the evolution of family relations and the development of complex societies, states, and organized religions, drawing on evidence from several regions of the ancient world such as Mesopotamia, South Asia, and Africa. We explore how family practices help to account for the historical fate of different world regions in the era of European colonization that began around 1500. We look at the roles played by gender and generational relations in particular modernizing revolutions ranging from the French Revolution to the May Fourth Movement of China. We examine how political conflicts over the family played into fascist and colonial regimes and the Cold War in the 20th century. We end by examining the role of families in today's global economies and cultures in the Global North and the Global South. Throughout the course we will discuss the historical role of beliefs about family as well as family practices, and also in the family metaphors that shape political community (for example, the Five Relationships of Confucianism, the connection between royal power and paternal power in early modern Europe, or modern nationalist appeals to blood ties as the basis of citizenship). We draw on a wide range of historical sources including archaeological evidence, fiction, art and oral history as well as legal codes, census records, and memoirs. In weekly labs that are part of the course, students will investigate and learn to interpret a wide range of sources from which family history is reconstructed. Lectures, labs, and assignments will show how family life, often thought of as a relatively unchanging realm of merely private and local interest, in fact has played and continues to play a major role in world history.
Grading:
10% Midterm Exam
30% Reports/Papers
5% Special Projects
15% Reflection Papers
5% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation
15% Laboratory Evaluation Other Grading Information: There will be a variety of forms of reports and papers; assignments include in-class or in-lab writing as well as writing done at home and brought to class and to the lab sections.
Exam Format:
The mid-term exam will be a take-home. The final assignment is a paper not an exam.
Class Format:
45% Lecture
15% Discussion
15% Laboratory
10% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations
5% Field Trips
5% Web Based
Workload:
75 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
4 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: In-class informal writing in addition to 10-15 pages of formal writing. Because this is a writing-intensive course, students will revise one assignment after getting feedback from the instructor.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33858/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
31 March 2012

Fall 2018  |  HIST 1411W Section 002: The Family from 10,000 BCE to the Present (33859)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Wed 03:35PM - 05:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 225
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (22 of 22 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
How family life, has played and continues to play a major role in world history. Lectures, labs, assignments. prereq: Fr or soph or fewer than 60 cr
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33859/1189

Fall 2018  |  HIST 1411W Section 003: The Family from 10,000 BCE to the Present (33860)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 330
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (21 of 22 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
How family life, has played and continues to play a major role in world history. Lectures, labs, assignments. prereq: Fr or soph or fewer than 60 cr
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33860/1189

Fall 2018  |  HIST 1411W Section 004: The Family from 10,000 BCE to the Present (33861)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Thu 03:35PM - 05:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management 1-136
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (22 of 22 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
How family life, has played and continues to play a major role in world history. Lectures, labs, assignments. prereq: Fr or soph or fewer than 60 cr
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33861/1189

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