Graduate Seminars

Graduate seminars vary by quarter.  Below is a partial list of previously offered seminars.  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 at https://registrar-apps.ucdavis.edu/courses/search/index.cfm

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. 

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.  


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. 

HIS 203A/B/C: 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.
 

History 389: Introductory Seminar for Teaching Assistants (1 unit)

Course Description: An introduction to the broad comparative and theoretical issues of teaching methods and techniques in history. Required of all first-time TA's, typically taken the first fall quarter.