Spring 2024 Seminars
Graduate seminars vary by quarter. For a listing of all history courses, both undergraduate and graduate, refer to the course catalog at https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/history/#coursestext For course times and locations, refer to the Schedule of Courses https://registrar-apps.ucdavis.edu/courses/search/
HIS 201Q: Sources & General Literature of History: Cross-Cultural Women's History - Professor Hartigan-O'Connor
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor. Designed primarily for students preparing for higher degrees in history. Cross-Cultural Women's History. May be repeated for credit when subject differs. Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.
Topic: Gender and Revolution in the Americas
Description: This year’s Women’s and Gender History seminar examines the relationships between gender and revolution in the Americas. Tracing the intersecting experiences of revolution, emancipation, and exile, we will consider how gender shaped radical politics and the everyday lives of people who lived through the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the last 250 years. Course readings, by focusing on a selection of revolutionary moments, will highlight theories of revolution, citizenship, and nationalism, and how they have been shaped by ideas about race, gender and sexuality. As we investigate violence and memory, we will explore different modes of presenting revolutionary histories, both inside and outside of the academy
HIS 201W: Sources & General Literature of History: Advanced Topics in World History - Professor Walker
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing. Designed primarily for students preparing for higher degrees in history. Advanced Topics in World History. May be repeated for credit when subject differs. Valid for Designated Emphasis in Human Rights.
Topic: Memory, Culture, and Human Rights
Description: This seminar examines the long history of violence, memory, and human rights in Latin American and beyond. While the focus will be on repression, resistance, and their aftermath in Latin America, we will also explore theoretical approaches to violence and memory as well as the emergence of the post-World War II concept of human rights. Although “memory” has been a topic for intellectual reflection since classical antiquity, it has experienced an upsurge in academia since the 1980s, particularly due to the rise of Holocaust Studies and the urgent need to reflect on gross human rights violations around the world. Crossing the social sciences and humanities, memory has become a category for critical inquiry as well as a political and ethical imperative that links intellectual reflection to political activism in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes, genocide, and situations of violence. Furthermore, “memory studies” now find spaces of institutional legitimacy in the U.S. and abroad as graduate programs and specialized journals promote scholarship in this area. This seminar will build on the call to "historicize" memory and to understand enduring trends in the use of violence and its understanding.
HIS 202H-1: Major Issues in Historical Interpretation: United States - Professor Parker
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Fundamental issues and debates in the study of history. United States. Readings, papers, and class reports. May be repeated for credit when subject differs.
Topic: Gender and sexuality in the Civil Rights Movement
Description: This course will explore gender and sexuality in the Civil Rights Movement. In the 1950s and 1960s, as civil rights activists challenged Jim Crow, a system that was as much gendered as it was raced, they wrestled with historic assumptions about race and gender in American society. This course explores this and seeks to answer several major questions: What was the “gendered geography of Jim Crow”? How did race and gender shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement? What was the interplay between race, gender, and sexuality in this struggle? How did the mid-twentieth century Black Freedom Movement reinforce and challenge traditional notions of womanhood and manhood? While the Civil Rights Movement is the central focus of the course, we also will consider other mid-century liberatory movements (such as Black Power, Women’s Liberation, and Gay Liberation Movements and the Sexual Revolution) that were influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and grappled intensely with race, gender, and sexuality in ways that have had major and lasting implications for Black gender relations and politics.
HIS 202H-2: Major Issues in Historical Interpretation: United States - Professor Smolenski
Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Fundamental issues and debates in the study of history. United States. Readings, papers, and class reports. May be repeated for credit when subject differs.
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HIS 203C: Research Seminar - Professor Campbell
Seminar 3 hour(s), Tutorial 1 hour(s). Designed for students preparing for higher degrees in History. Individual research and analysis resulting in substantial research paper of publishable quality. Completion required of all Ph.D. candidates. The three courses must be taken in continuous sequence, ordinarily during second year.