Graduate Courses (200-399)

200 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL METHODS AND RESEARCH (3). Introduction to research. Required for all first-year students. Fall.

201 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL STUDIES (3). This is an interdisciplinary course to introduce graduate students to the sources, methods, and approaches of Medieval Studies.

202 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL EDUCATION (3). Provides an introduction to teaching history. Topics include the history of historical education, planning a course, the role of the teacher, goals and methods, using new technologies, and evaluating students. Spring. Filene, Shields.

203A INTRODUCTORY COLLOQUIUM ON EARLY MODERN EUROPE (3). Directed readings on early European history, from Britain through European Russia. Fall. (Alternate years.)

203B INTRODUCTORY COLLOQUIUM ON MODERN EUROPE (3). Directed readings on modern European history, from Britain through European Russia. Spring.

204 READINGS IN RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY. A sequence of four courses on the several periods and the main themes of Russian and Soviet History. Brooks, Griffiths, Raleigh.

204A READINGS IN RUSSIAN HISTORY BEFORE 1796 (3). Griffiths.

204B READINGS IN RUSSIAN HISTORY, 1796-1917 (3). Brooks.

204C READINGS IN SOVIET HISTORY (3). Raleigh.

204D SPECIAL TOPICS IN RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY (3).

205A READINGS IN EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND GLOBAL INTERACTION, 1400-1800 (3). Examines the dynamics of cross cultural contacts and exchange between Europe and other civilizations in the context of a growing global interconnectedness. Spring. (Alternate years.)

205B READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL HISTORY (3). Focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mixing theory, case studies, and comparisons, readings reflect disciplinary diversity. Fall.

206 PROBLEMS IN GREEK HISTORY, 600-323 B.C. (3). Prerequisite, consent of the instructor. McCoy.

207A INTRODUCTORY COLLOQUIUM IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY BEFORE 1810 (3). Directed readings on Latin American history from from preconquest to 1810; required for students entering the field. Fall. Burns.

207B INTRODUCTORY COLLOQUIUM IN THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE 1810. Directed readings on Latin American history in the National Period; required for students entering the field. Spring. Chasteen, Pérez.

208 HISTORY OF ROME, 27 B.C.-180 A.D. Talbert.

209A INTRODUCTORY COLLOQUIUM IN UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1865 (3). Directed readings on American History through the Civil War; required for students entering the field. Fall.

209B INTRODUCTORY COLLOQUIUM IN UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 (3). Directed readings on American history from the Civil War to the present; required for students entering the field. Spring.

210 READINGS IN EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY (3). Directed readings on modern East European history.

215 READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST (3). Shields.

217 READINGS IN URBAN HISTORY (3). A readings course to introduce students to the main topics in urban history. Lotchin.

218 READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY (WMST 218) (3). Prerequisite, graduate standing. Readings on the historical study of gender and sexuality and on definitions of femininity and masculinity in different historical contexts. Fall, spring. Hoffert, Chojnacki.

219 EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (3). A survey of the best historical literature emphasizing churches, varieties of secular power, and religious practice. Headley.

220 READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN'S HISTORY (WMST 220) (3). A readings course in the history of women in Europe since 1500. Bennett, Harris.

221 READINGS IN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY (WMST 221) (3). A readings course on the history of women in the United States. Hall, Hoffert.

222 SELECTED TOPICS IN THE COMPARATIVE OR GLOBAL HISTORY OF WOMEN (WMST 222) (3). Depending on instructor, this course is taught as comparative history (subjects examined in different contexts) or global history (subjects placed in global context). Spring. (Alternate years with History 228.)

223 READINGS IN MEDIEVAL WOMEN'S HISTORY (3) (WMST 223). A readings course on the history of women, gender, and sexuality in Medieval Europe. Bennett.

225 COLLOQUIUM IN WORLD MILITARY HISTORY (3). Reading colloquium in world military history, emphasizing Europe, focusing on the most significant issues, methods, and approaches in the field today. Kohn.

226 READINGS IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF EUROPE (3). A readings course on specific themes and debates in modern European intellectual life. Kramer.

227 READINGS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY (3). Bullard.

228 FEMINIST THEORY FOR HISTORIANS (WMST 228) (3). Readings in contemporary feminist theory, focused especially on theories that address the construction, writing, and general practice of history. Spring. (Alternate years with History 222.)

229 READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE (3). Examines the principal historiographical problems in the history of science and medicine, focusing on a different topic each year. McVaugh.

230 EARLY MODERN GERMANY (3). A topical survey of the political, social, and economic history of early modern Germany. McIntosh.

232 TOPICS IN FRENCH HISTORY (3). This course examines one period or one set of problems within French history since the Renaissance. Topics determined by instructor. Open to graduate students from all departments. Kramer, Reid, Smith.

233 PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (3). Readings, reports, and discussion on aspects of the French Revolutionary upheaval in Europe. Smith.

234 TOPICS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY (3). Jarausch.

235 READINGS IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL HISTORY (3). Reid.

236 READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1918-1945 (3). Browning.

238 POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS AND THE STUARTS (3). Prerequisite, History 138. Harris.

239 MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (3). Prerequisite, History 137 or equivalent. Pfaff.

240 STUDIES IN MODERN ENGLISH HISTORY (3). Directed readings in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English history. Topics vary from year to year. Soloway.

243 LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (3). Prerequisite, History 133, 134, or equivalent. Readings in English history, ca. 1300-1500, with a focus on social, economic, political, and legal topics. Bennett.

244 HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS (3). Hunt.

245 HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (3). The relationship of the social sciences to history, logic of inquiry, use of quantitative methods, and introduction to the computer. Jarausch.

246 TOPICS IN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY (3). Readings and discussions on selected topics in the history of American thought and intellectual culture.

248 READINGS IN NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY (AMST 248) (3). Readings in and discussions of the major works in Native American history. Perdue, Green.

249 READINGS IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY (3).

250 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1763-1789 (3). Higginbotham.

251 THE UNITED STATES IN THE FEDERAL PERIOD, 1789-1820 (3). Readings, discussion, and book lists designed to give familiarity with the historiographical problems, research opportunities, and bibliography of the period. Higginbotham.

252 THE UNITED STATES IN THE MIDDLE PERIOD, 1815-1860 (3). An analysis of the material and ideological transformations within the antebellum republic, which climaxed in the sectional crisis of the 1850s. Barney.

254 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1860-1876 (3). Barney.

256 RECENT AND CONTEMPORARY UNITED STATES (3).

259 POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF MODERN AMERICA (3). A course of readings for advanced students that relate social history to the history of the state in America in the period from the Great Depression and the New Deal to the present.

261 INTRODUCTION TO MILITARY HISTORY (3). An introduction to the methods, issues, and literature of military history, including classic works and scholarship representative of a variety of approaches from history and other disciplines. Fall. Kohn.

262 COLLOQUIUM IN UNITED STATES MILITARY HISTORY (3). Reading colloquium in United States military history focusing on the most significant issues, methods, and approaches in the field today. Kohn.

263 READINGS IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH (3). A review of traditional and modern literature on the pre-Civil War South, focusing on the interrelationships of its economy, society, culture, and politics. Watson.

264 READINGS IN THE SOUTH SINCE RECONSTRUCTION (3). Readings, reports, and discussions on selected topics with a view to gaining familiarity with the literature of the field. Leloudis.

265 READINGS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (3). Graduate students compile bibliographies and read important contributions to various aspects of African American history, stressing shifts in African American historiography and including very recent works.

269 TOPICS IN AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY (3). Kasson.

270 PROBLEMS IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY (3). Burns, Chasteen, Pérez.

281 TOPICS IN FILM AND MEDIA HISTORY (3). Varying in specific focus and period from term to term, this course considers both the rise of film and electronic media as an historical phenomenon and the ways in which film and media texts might be employed as evidence in the writing of history. Allen.

290 TOPICS IN HISTORY FOR GRADUATES (3). Instructors use this course to focus on particular topics or historical approaches. Specific course descriptions are available each semester on the departmental website (http://www.unc.edu/depts/history).

299 INDEPENDENT STUDY FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (3). Independent reading programs for graduate students whose needs are covered by no course immediately available. Consent of the instructor required. For students resident in Chapel Hill or vicinity.

300 GRADUATE STUDIES IN HISTORY: SECOND COURSE (3). Application of research skills to historical investigation. Required for all first-year students. Spring.

301 ANCIENT HISTORY (3).

311 MEDIEVAL HISTORY (3).

319 SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY (3).

324 SEMINAR IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY (3).

325 SEMINAR IN RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY (3).

330 SEMINAR IN U.S. HISTORY (3).

342 SEMINAR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (3).

348 RESEARCH IN NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY (AMST 348) (3).

350 SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE (3).

361A INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR IN MILITARY HISTORY (3).

361B ADVANCED SEMINAR IN MILITARY HISTORY (3).

371 SEMINAR IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY (3).

387 SEMINAR ON WOMEN'S HISTORY (WMST 387) (3).

390 SEMINAR IN HISTORY (3). Given on demand and as resources permit, this seminar allows faculty to respond to student interest in particular topics. Fall.

391 M.A. RESEARCH SEMINAR (3). A seminar for those preparing the M.A. thesis. Pursuing original research in primary sources, students prepare full drafts of their theses. Fall.

392 Ph.D. RESEARCH SEMINAR (3). A research seminar for students beyond the M.A. but not yet A.B.D. Spring.

393 MASTER'S THESIS (3 or more). Individual work on the M.A. thesis, pursued under the supervision of the M.A. advisor.

394A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3 or more). Individual work on the doctoral dissertation, pursued under the supervision of the Ph.D. advisor.

394B DISSERTATION SEMINAR (3). A seminar for A.B.D. students, offered as demand and resources permit.

399 HISTORICAL EXPLANATION AND RESEARCH DESIGN (3). Required of all doctoral candidates in the last semester of course work, this practicum helps students refine a dissertation topic and produce a prospectus. Fall.