Course Offerings  

Spring 2008

Please note: This is a tentative list only. Inevitably there will be changes in the proposed curriculum due to leaves, retirements, and the hiring of new members of the department. Students should reconfirm offerings during the pre-registration period of the semester before a course is to be given.

Foundations Seminars
(High Demand, Open to undergraduates only)
Course # Course Title Professor
1.08 Environment and Civilization
View syllabus (pdf) - subject to change
Fernandez-Armesto
11+ T 6:00 – 9:00  
1.13WW Massachusetts and the American Revolution Carp
ARR
T 1:30 – 5:00
1.19 U.S. Urban Life and Culture, 1830-2000 Schneider
8 R 1:30-4: 00
 
Research Seminars
(High Demand, Graduate Students by special permission only)
Course # Course Title Professor
181.02 The Suez Crisis
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Malchow
5 M 1:30 – 4:00
184.01WW Travel Writing and History Baghdiantz-McCabe
5+ M 1:20-4:20
187.04 Cold War America
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Lekus
6 T 1:30 – 4:00
 
Survey Courses
(Open to undergraduates only)
Course # Course Title Professor
05 Consumption in History Baghdiantz-McCabe
E+ MW 10:30am – 11:45
08 [prev. 03GL] U.S. Imperialism in Asia
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Leupp
8 R 1:30 – 4:00
09.02 [prev. 03DM] Terrorism in Modern History
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Mulholland
ARR
T 1:30 – 2:45
R 1:30 – 4:00
11 Europe since 1815
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Proctor
E+ MW 10:30am -11:45am
21 Europe in the High Middle Ages Marrone
D M 9:30am – 10:20
TR 10:30 – 11:20
29 Modern Russia Mulholland
D M 9:30am – 10:20
TR 10:30 – 11:20
39.07 Modern France Laurent
H+ TR 10:30 – 2:45
37 Spains
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Fernandez-Armesto
ARR
MT 8:05am – 9:20
43 China to the Opium War
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Kuo
G + MW 1:30 – 2:45
48 Japan from 1868
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Leupp
C TWF 9:30am – 10:20am
59.01 Introduction to the History of South Asian Religions
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Jhala
F+ TR 12:00 – 1:15
78 Modern Latin America
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Corbett
D + TR 10:30am – 11:45am
80 The Changing American Nation: The 19th and 20th Centuries
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Ueda
F+ TR 12:00 – 1:15
83 Revolutionary America Carp
E+ MW 10:30am – 11:45 am
99.01 Latinos in U.S. History
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Driscoll
I+ MW 3:00 – 4:15
99.03 History of Sexuality in America
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Lekus
G+ MW 1:30 – 2:45
99.04 History of Religion in America Curtis
G+ MW 1:30 – 2:45
 
Thematic Courses
(Open to undergraduate and graduate students)
Course # Course Title Professor
113 Religious and Spiritual Map of Europe 300-1500 Marrone
H+ TR 1:30 -2:45
119.06 Family Life in Early Modern Europe Rankin
I+ MW 3:00 – 4:15
119.11 Economics of the British Industrial Evolution, 1750-1850 Rothenberg
J+ TR 3:00 - 4:15
119.12 Greece, Rome and China Hirsch
F+ TR 12:00 – 1:15
129.01 Republican China: Nationalism, Revolution, Internationalization
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Kuo
K+ MW 4:30 – 5:45
139.02 The Empire Writes Back: Colonial & Post Colonial Literary Interpretations of South Asian History
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Jhala
J+ TR 3:00 – 4:15
159.01 Transformations in West African Islam
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Berndt
J+ TR 3:00 – 4:15
179.03 Women and Religion in America: 1600 to Present Curtis
2 W 9:00am – 11:30am
 
Graduate Courses
(Undergraduate students by special permission only)
Course # Course Title Professor
202 Graduate Comparative Colloquium
View syllabus (pdf)- subject to change
Ueda
0 M 9:00am – 11:30
289 Exhibition Planning for the Small Museum Turino & Iacobucci
ARR
T 6:30pm – 9:30pm
290 Historical Interpretation of Material Culture Ward
ARR
R 7:00pm -10:00pm
292 Museum Studies Internship To register contact
(617) 627-3022

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