The course teaches students how to conduct a historiographical analysis on a subtopic of their own choosing. HIST - Slavery in the Americas Proseminar This course is hemispheric in its approach, focusing on the origins of slavery in the Americas, the transatlantic slave trade, the connection between slavery and the birth of early modern capitalism, and the emergence of "second slavery.
The course begins with a broad discussion of the wide range of slave societies in the Americas. From this starting point, the reading list is organized both geographically and topically, with particular emphasis on the three zones of New World slavery: Brazil, the Caribbean basin, and North America.
Students will be expected to conduct original research and present their findings both orally and in a term paper. Page Content. Applicants with a master's degree Applicants must complete and submit all of the following items in order to be considered for admission.
Contact Dr. Theresa Case. Jonathan Chism. Aaron Gillette. Gene Preuss. David Ryden. X Close. The projected outcome includes: Explain major historiographical schools of thought and debates. Use advanced library databases and internet sources relevant to locating primary and secondary sources.
Pose an arguable, workable research question regarding a historical problem or puzzle. Construct a draft research paper and other preparatory work and revise according to professor's directions.
Write a well-organized historical essay that addresses a historical issue or puzzle, communicates ideas clearly, synthesizes relevant evidence from both primary and secondary sources, and builds a logical argument.
Format papers and cite source material using the Turabian-Chicago style. Indicate how well you speak, read, and write the language s. Native English speakers should focus on describing preparation in Non-English language courses.
Non-Native English speakers should indicate their native language s and language preparation in English. Discussions will query how queer theory formulates racial, class and national identities in relation to sexuality, and how it might offer politics beyond those based on identity.
This course may count towards the History and Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the liberal studies graduate and advanced graduate study certificate programs. This course may also count towards the Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in literature and advanced graduate study certificate programs.
The period is considered one of the most unstable, terrifying and debated periods in French cultural history. Over the past 65 years, historians, sociologists and the French Establishment have consciously or unconsciously chosen to emphasize, de-emphasize and neglect certain aspects of this traumatic period. Students will complete an in-depth topical investigation in this course that will contribute to both their knowledge and their research skills.
In this course, we will examine two parallel, though often intersecting, discourses which attempt to define Chicago: formal urban planning documents and literary representations of the city. These documents demonstrate deep and complicated relationships between economic forces, political power, and human agency and identity.
In this course, we will examine planners as poets, and poets as planners to explore the evolution of Chicago from the early 20th Century to today. This course may count towards the American Studies, Chicago Studies, History, or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in liberal studies and advanced graduate study certificate programs.
This course may also count towards the American Literature or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in literature and advanced graduate study certificate programs.
Richard J. Daley shaped the city of Chicago, and its region, more than any person in its history. The North Side Lakefront and the Loop bloomed with high-rises, while many low-rise neighborhoods—-especially on the South and West Sides--fell into disrepair and despair. The course will read two biographies of Daley, along with selections from a wide range of scholarship, journalism, poetry, fiction, and visual art depicting Daley. Retrospectatorship is a way of negotiating the history of Hollywood through contemporary practices of spectatorship and the identities and cultural politics we now bring to our viewing of the past.
We will theorize on meanings of queerness and how this concept colors our notion of gay and lesbian spectatorship. This course may count towards the American Studies, History, or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in liberal studies and advanced graduate study certificate programs. How do media impact our sense of such fundamental concepts as personhood, social life, and time and space? How do new technologies transform sensory experience at different moments in history?
This course provides an introduction to the field of theoretical writings within the humanities addressing the nature of media and the role of technology in twentieth- and twenty-first century culture. We will pay close attention to the work of key media theorists, including but not limited to Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, and Donna Haraway. We will also analyze works of art, sound, film, and literature in order to catalyze, test, and expand our sense of how media matter.
This course should cause us to seek an answer to the question of whether there is a human compulsion to connect with the divine, to suffer for or with the divine, to question whether women are more willing to accept the suffering that is oftentimes dealt them in a Christ-like way, or to accept sacrifice and suffering as part of their human condition.
Through a variety of films and some short novels the films are mostly foreign, most in English , we will have, it is hoped, lively discussion and much food for thought.
Black political activism in the city of Chicago has historically been a multi-varied phenomenon. Prominent and ordinary Black Chicagoans have responded to institutional or structural racism, specific racial incidents or problems impacting the African American community through organizational efforts and the power of the community. This course will explore ten historical incidents in which Black Chicagoans organized to make change. We will specifically look at Ida B. Students will conduct an original research project this semester, using primary resources from the Vivian G.
Harsh Collection at the Carter G. This course may count towards the American Studies, Chicago Studies, History or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in liberal studies program. This course may count towards the American Literature, or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in literature program.
Chicago is still the most segregated big city in America, and it has a long history of writers who represented its racial and ethnic conflicts. This course may count towards the American Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the literature and advanced graduate study certificate programs. This course may also count towards the American Studies, Chicago Studies, History, or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the liberal studies graduate and advanced graduate study certificate programs.
The only constant in Chicago history, and literature, is change. In this course, we will read and discuss more than a century's worth of textual explorations of fundamental shifts in Chicago's built environment, racial and ethnic identities, and literaary expressions.
Who lives where? Who has power and who takes it? Who expresses the most important aspects of these transformations, and how do writers across generations agree and disagree?
This course may count towards the American Literature, or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in literature and advanced graduate study certificate programs. This course may also count towards the American Studies, Chicago Studies, History, or Interdisciplinary Studies specializations in the master of arts in liberal studies and advanced graduate study certificate programs.
Cost Per Credit. Courses Start Monthly. Must take all courses for this section. Course ID: Academic Calendar View Syllabi. This course is a comprehensive seminar in U. Students should be expected to read and write intensely on both broadly and narrowly addressed topics of history.
This course is not designed as a refresher of undergraduate history survey courses; rather, it is a concentrated study of U. This course will examine the political and social history of the thirteen colonies, including their European background, settlement and expansion, beginnings of culture, and the imperial context. Additionally, students will study the social consequences of colonization, migration, and war in America from , including the interaction of British colonists with competing European cultures French, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish , with Native Americans, and with African and Afro-American slaves.
The course will also include consideration of the pan-Atlantic context of Early America, cross-cultural contacts, family and gender, labor systems, religious observations, crime, and other themes explored in recent social and cultural theory. This course is a comparative study to demonstrate the importance of the historical context of any great military event.
Context includes all aspects of a society or culture and in this case, 18th century British and colonial American political and constitutional philosophies, social norms and societal structure, economics, religious concepts, and foreign and diplomatic policy.
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