HIS 500 (5843) (1Cr) Practicum in College Teaching

HISTORY DEPARTMENT

GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

FALL 2017

HIS 500 (5843) (1cr) Practicum in College Teaching

D. Hochfelder ()

ARR

Discussion and analysis in a workshop setting of teaching techniques and aims as well as of various aspects of the historical professions, such as job interviews, ethics, departmental responsibilities, and non-academic careers. Required of, and limited to, doctoral candidates. The course will be taken over two semesters for one credit each semester.

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HIS 500 (9192) (1cr) Practicum in College Teaching: Writing the Successful Proposal

S. Curran Bernard ()

Thu 7:15pm-10:05pm

SS 145

This section of HIS 500 is a hands-on workshop for history PhD and MA students who want to learn more about the process of applying for research or travel grants, fellowships, and more. How do you find opportunities, analyze RFPs, and present yourself and your work in their strongest light? In a workshop setting, with the number of meetings dependent on enrollment, students will share, analyze, revise, and rewrite proposals (whether actual or invented) of their own. S/U graded.
Prerequisite: Open to history MA and PhD students only. This section does NOT replace HIS 500 (Prof. Hochfelder) required of PhD students.

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HIS 501 (1914) (3crs) Introduction to Public History

R. Campbell ()

Mon 2:45pm-5:35pm

BB 209

Ever wondered what you can do with a degree in history? This course introduces students to the ways that historians create historical narratives for broad audiences outside of academia including: history as entertainment, historic preservation, museums, archeology, family genealogy, and more. Through readings, multi-media, papers, projects, and discussions we explore what public historians do and the career opportunities that exist in the field. While this course might inspire some of you to become imaginative and effective public historians in the future, it will hopefully help all of you to be astute consumers of the many historical venues vying for your attention. * Site visits will be required.

HIS 503 (10112) (3crs) Introduction to Historical Agency Management and Practice

D. Palmquist ()

Mon 5:45pm-8:35pm

SS 117

The course will explore the management and operation of historical agencies, history museums and historical societies; orient the student to these agencies and their history; provide practical information on legal, financial, ethical, personnel, collecting, exhibition, educational and program elements; and prepare the student for professional work in an historical agency. The course will be run as a seminar and will feature presentations by the instructor, discussion, readings and guest speakers. The student will choose a critical issue and select a historical agency, visit the institution, interview management, study the institution in depth, and prepare a mid-term oral report and final paper addressing the critical issue in terms of the specific historical agency.

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HIS 563 (10059) (4crs) The Byzantine Empire

D. Korobeynikov ()

Mon, Wed, Fri 11:30am-12:25pm

HU 123

Survey of the socio-economic, ethnic, political, religious, intellectual and artistic history of Byzantine civilization from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. The course focuses on the one of the most brilliant chapters in the world history. Byzantium was often seen, and presented herself, as continuation of the Roman Empire; yet the Byzantine Empire was somewhat distinct from Rome. The course is indispensable for anyone interested in the history of the Eastern Mediterranean, Byzantine Greek and Slavonic history, and the history of the relations between Christianity and Islam.

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HIS 599(1915) (1-4crs) Special Projects in History

D. Hochfelder ()

ARR

Students will be able to choose from among several projects sponsored by area institutions. These projects might involve archival or museum work, or primary historical research. See instructor for further information.

PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR IS REQUIRED. S/U graded.

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HIS 599(3924) (3crs) Special Projects in History

G. Zahavi ()

ARR

Students will be able to choose from among several projects sponsored by area institutions. These projects might involve archival or museum work, or primary historical research. See instructor for further information.

PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR IS REQUIRED. S/U graded.

HIS 600 (1916) (4crs) Colloquium on theTheory and Practice of History

N. Kizenko ()

Tue 5:45pm-8:35pm

SS 145

This course does two things. First, it reviews the broadest contours of historiography. Second, it introduces the Ph.D. program’s thematic fields: Cultural History, Gender History, International, Global and Comparative History, Public Policy History, and Social and Economic History. We also make forays into Public/Digital Media History. Department faculty members lead class sessions on their respective areas of expertise, and students begin developing a reading expertise in one of these fields. Taken together, the two parts of this course should give you a novice’s grounding in professional history as practiced in the United States today. Open only to incoming doctoral students in history. Permission of the instructor required.

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HIS 603 (10595) (4 crs) Readings in U.S. and Global/Comparative Public History

G. Zahavi ()

Tue 2:45pm–5:35pm

SLG 24

Also taught as HIS 621 (10596), HIS 628 (10597), and HIS642 (10598).

This readings course explores how public history is practiced in the U.S. and in other parts of the world – in Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. We’ll examine — on a local, regional, national, and international level — how historical knowledge and historical interpretations are shaped and communicated to general audiences in popular narratives, media, museum exhibitions, memorials, and various other forms of public history. Around half of the semester will be devoted to readings focusing on public history practices and controversies in the United States. Once grounded in domestic soils, we’ll spend the rest of the semester surveying the history, theory, and practice of public history abroad. We’ll examine the relationship between academic and public history; questions and controversies that have arisen around contested “heritage” and “patrimonial” public histories; the cultural and political debates that have been ignited when historians, filmmakers, and museum curators presented controversial historical issues to the general public; and the relationship between history and memory in a variety of national and regional contexts. The aim of this course is to inspire you to become imaginative and effective public historians and scholars of public history, and to develop a more cosmopolitan and global perspective on the field in general.

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HIS 603 (10411) (4crs) Readings in United States History-American History through Trials

R. Hamm ()

Thu 4:30pm-7:30pm

Albany Law School

*Also taught as HIS 630

From the colonial period through today, the American legal system has produced notable or notorious trials which tell historians much about the workings of American society. This reading seminar will sweep through American history looking at number of different trials, both civil and criminal, both trials of first instance and trials that were carried to courts of last resorts. The goal is to use these trials to explore a number of themes in the American past: You will read basically a book a week, participate in class discussion, and write some short papers.

*Please note the time and location

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HIS 609(10116) (4crs) Seminar in American History: Public Policy and Politics of the New Deal Era

C. Bon Tempo ()

Wed 4:15pm-7:05pm

SS 117

*Also taught as HIS 631(10117)

The goals of this research seminar are for students (1) to undertake original research in primary sources; (2) to produce a high-quality paper (of around 30 pages) based on that research; (3) to sharpen their writing and analytical skills; and (4) to create and participate in a classroom environment that encourages constructive criticism and cooperation among students. Any research topics in 20th century American history are welcome, but I encourage students with an interest in exploring topics addressing politics and public policy in the New Deal era (roughly 1933 to 1980.) In addition to the seminar paper, students will be expected to complete a series of readings, to participate in class discussions, and to comment upon other students’ seminar papers during the drafting process.

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HIS 611 (9022) (4crs) The Medieval Inquisition

P. Nold ()

Tue 2:45pm-5:35pm

SS 117

Today, coronors have inquests, governments conduct investigations, police ask questions. The Latin word for all these routine legal activities is the same: inquisitio. Inquisition is a technical one for a specific procedure in Roman law. This course investigates how a legal procedure on the one hand morphed into a byword for repression. Everyone, of course, expects the Spanish Inquisition. But this class is about something completely different. We will focus on France and Italy from the Twelfth through Fourteenth centuries and the medieval technology developed for the detection of deviant religious beliefs (viz., heresy). Subjects include: the relation between law and theology; the education and training of inquisitors; the value of inquisitorial testimony as a historical source; medieval heresy as an ‘invention’ of intellectuals, and the existence of ‘the inquisition’ as an institution.

HIS 621 (10596) (4 crs) Readings in U.S. and Global/Comparative Public History

G. Zahavi ()

Tue 2:45pm–5:35pm

SLG 24

Also taught as HIS 603 (10595), HIS 628 (10597), and HIS642 (10598).

This readings course explores how public history is practiced in the U.S. and in other parts of the world – in Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. We’ll examine — on a local, regional, national, and international level — how historical knowledge and historical interpretations are shaped and communicated to general audiences in popular narratives, media, museum exhibitions, memorials, and various other forms of public history. Around half of the semester will be devoted to readings focusing on public history practices and controversies in the United States. Once grounded in domestic soils, we’ll spend the rest of the semester surveying the history, theory, and practice of public history abroad. We’ll examine the relationship between academic and public history; questions and controversies that have arisen around contested “heritage” and “patrimonial” public histories; the cultural and political debates that have been ignited when historians, filmmakers, and museum curators presented controversial historical issues to the general public; and the relationship between history and memory in a variety of national and regional contexts. The aim of this course is to inspire you to become imaginative and effective public historians and scholars of public history, and to develop a more cosmopolitan and global perspective on the field in general.

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HIS 628 (10597) (4 crs) Readings in U.S. and Global/Comparative Public History

G. Zahavi ()

Tue 2:45pm–5:35pm

SLG 24

Also taught as HIS 603 (10595), HIS 621 (10596), and HIS642 (10598).

This readings course explores how public history is practiced in the U.S. and in other parts of the world – in Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. We’ll examine — on a local, regional, national, and international level — how historical knowledge and historical interpretations are shaped and communicated to general audiences in popular narratives, media, museum exhibitions, memorials, and various other forms of public history. Around half of the semester will be devoted to readings focusing on public history practices and controversies in the United States. Once grounded in domestic soils, we’ll spend the rest of the semester surveying the history, theory, and practice of public history abroad. We’ll examine the relationship between academic and public history; questions and controversies that have arisen around contested “heritage” and “patrimonial” public histories; the cultural and political debates that have been ignited when historians, filmmakers, and museum curators presented controversial historical issues to the general public; and the relationship between history and memory in a variety of national and regional contexts. The aim of this course is to inspire you to become imaginative and effective public historians and scholars of public history, and to develop a more cosmopolitan and global perspective on the field in general.

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HIS 630 (10412) (4crs) Readings in United States History-American History through Trials

R. Hamm ()

Thu 4:30pm-7:30pm

Albany Law School

*Also taught as HIS 603

From the colonial period through today, the American legal system has produced notable or notorious trials which tell historians much about the workings of American society. This reading seminar will sweep through American history looking at number of different trials, both civil and criminal, both trials of first instance and trials that were carried to courts of last resorts. The goal is to use these trials to explore a number of themes in the American past: You will read basically a book a week, participate in class discussion, and write some short papers.

*Please note the time and location

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HIS 631(10117) (4crs) Seminar in Public Policy: Public Policy and Politics of the New Deal Era

C. Bon Tempo ()

Wed 4:15pm-7:05pm

SS 117

*Also taught as HIS 609(10116)

The goals of this research seminar are for students (1) to undertake original research in primary sources; (2) to produce a high-quality paper (of around 30 pages) based on that research; (3) to sharpen their writing and analytical skills; and (4) to create and participate in a classroom environment that encourages constructive criticism and cooperation among students. Any research topics in 20th century American history are welcome, but I encourage students with an interest in exploring topics addressing politics and public policy in the New Deal era (roughly 1933 to 1980.) In addition to the seminar paper, students will be expected to complete a series of readings, to participate in class discussions, and to comment upon other students’ seminar papers during the drafting process.