History
Acting
Chair:
James
Turner, Ph.D.
Dept. Tel. (574) 631-7266
The Program of Studies.
The Department of History offers a summer program designed to meet the
needs of
undergraduates and graduates from Notre Dame and other institutions who
wish to
supplement their studies. Each regular course listed below counts
toward either
the University history requirement or the major requirements.
Course Descriptions.
The following course descriptions give the number and title of each
course.
Lecture hours per week, studio and/or tutorial hours per week, and
semester
credit hours are in parentheses. The University reserves the right to
withdraw
any course without sufficient registration.
CRNs for
independent study courses may be obtained from the department office,
from the
Summer Session office, or from insideND.
HIST 30281. Taking Heaven by
Storm:
Holy Knights, Militant Monks, and Violence
in the Middle Ages
(Cross-listed with MI 30288)
3 credits, Molvarec (3-0-3)
3:15–5:10
MWR, 6/17–7/31
CRN
3754; ID # HIST 30281 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last 7/10
Enrollment Limit:
10
This course explores the development of monastic and chivalric
impulses in Medieval Europe from AD 400 to 1500. Two of the most
persistent
images, even to this day, which represent the Middle Ages are that of
the monk
and the knight. Monasteries and knighthood were social institutions
that
significantly shaped societal sensibilities and culture in the West.
From the
beginning of the Middle Ages, monastic groups and knightly orders took
pages
from one another’s book. Their influence upon one another is seen in
monks who
came to think of themselves as spiritual warriors and in some knights
who came
to consider themselves military monks. Rhetorical and physical violence
was
employed by both knights and monks throughout the period, and instances
of this
will be examined.
In addition to considering the historical realities of monastic and
knightly mentalities during the medieval era, this course will also
look at
representations of monks and knights from the Middle Ages until the
20th
century in art, literature, and film. Such images are instructive in
consideration of not only the periods that produced them, but of the
Middle
Ages themselves. Students interested in religious or military history,
films,
Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose,
or other representations of the Middle Ages in popular culture, are
especially
welcome.
HIST 30441. Famine, Poverty,
and Violence and Nineteenth-Century Ireland
3 credits, Grimsley-Smith (3-0-3)
10:30–12:25
MWF, 6/17–7/31
CRN
3755; ID # HIST 30441 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last 7/10
Enrollment Limit:
10
This course explores Ireland
in the 19th century. Central to this exploration is the mid-century
famine,
which by starvation, disease, and emigration reduced the Irish
population by
half and resulted in extraordinary political and social changes, some
of which
have only recently begun to be obliterated from contemporary Irish
memory. The
course will focus on the persistent problem of governance of a
disordered and
often violent society from both British and Irish perspectives. Special
attention will be paid to attempts at democratization in a
quasi-colonial
political environment, as well as the creation and adaptation of
institutions
such as jails, workhouses, and lunatic asylums to handle the
unrelenting and
interrelated scourges of poverty and social disorders.
HIST 30475. Twentieth-Century Russia: War and Revolution
3 credits, Brennan (3-0-3)
1:15–2:35
MTWR, 6/17–7/31
CRN
3756; ID # HIST 30475 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last 7/10
Enrollment Limit:
10
This course explores Russian history from the coronation of the last
Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II in 1894, to the fall of communism in 1991.
The key
events of Russian history in the 20th century, such as the revolutions
of 1905
and 1917, the Russian Civil War, the imposition of Leninism and
Stalinism, the
Second World War, the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe and the Cold War,
the
Khrushchev “thaw,” the experience of Neo-Stalinism from 1964 to 1985,
glasnost
and perestroika under Gorbachev, and finally the end of the Soviet
Union will
be examined in detail. Particular attention will be paid to a number of
key
issues, such as the reasons for the collapse of the tsarist regime, the
Bolshevik seizure of power, the origins of Stalinism, the role of
political
ideology in the Soviet state, the attempts at reform of the communist
system
under Krushchev and Gorbachev, and the reasons for the failure of the
Soviet
“experiment.” While political ideology and the role of the Communist
party will
remain frequent topics, the course will also examine the experience for
“ordinary Russians” of living under totalitarianism.
HIST 30856. Labor and America since
1945
(Cross-listed with AFAM 30276, AMST 30362, IIPS 30922)
3 credits, Graff (3-0-3)
8:55–11:25 TR, 6/17–7/31
CRN
3336; ID # HIST 30856 01
Last “add” date:
6/22
“Drop” dates:
refund, 6/26; last 7/10
Enrollment Limit:
10
This course explores the evolving relationships of American workers
to politics, the economy, and the wider culture since 1945. The United
States
emerged from World War II as the strongest global power, and its
citizens
subsequently enjoyed a long postwar economic boom that created what we
might
call the first truly middle-class society in world history. At the
heart of
that new society was the American labor movement, those unions like the
United
Auto Workers and the United Steel Workers who ensured that at least
from of the
postwar profits made it into the wallets of workers and their families.
Today,
however, unions represent only 8 percent of workers in the private
sector. What
accounts for the decline of organized labor since the 1950s? What has
the
decline of the labor movement meant for workers specifically, and the
American
economy and politics more broadly? How and why have popular perceptions
of
unions changed over time? What has been the relationship of organized
labor to
the civil rights movement, feminism, and modern conservatism? What is
“globalization” and what has been its impact upon American workers?
Through an
exploration of historical scholarship, memoirs, and Hollywood
films, this course will try to answer these questions. Students
interested in
politics, economic development, International relations, social
justice, human
rights, peace studies or mass culture are particularly welcome. NOTE:
This
course fulfills the university history requirement NOTE: This course
fulfills
the university history requirement or IIPS Area C
HIST 37050. Directed Readings
Variable credits, Staff (V-V-V)
CRN
varies with instructor
ID # HIST 37050
HIST 66050. Directed Readings
Variable credits, Staff (V-V-V)
CRN
varies with instructor
ID # HIST 66050
HIST 98699. Research and
Dissertation
Variable credits, Kselman (V-V-V)
CRN 1383; ID # HIST 98699
HIST 98700. Nonresident
Dissertation Research
Variable credit, Kselman (0-0-1)
CRN 1382; ID # HIST 98700