WINTER 2000

This information effective for Winter 2000.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

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History

[HIS-020B-01] [HIS-025A-01] [HIS-125C-01] [HIS-196G-01]

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History 20B - The Classical World: Rome

ROME FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE

Professor Gary Miles
Office: 218 Cowell; office hours Fall, 1999 are M 2-3, F 10-11
Tel. 459-2487, msgs. 459-2609, email: miles@cats.ucsc.edu
|To learn more about me and my interest in antiquity, see my web page: http://humwww.ucsc.edu/classics/Miles.html

The following is an old syllabus for the course. There will be some modest changes for Winter, 2000, but the essential character of the course and its requirements will be as set forth in this syllabus.

This course is intended to provide an introductory overview of Roman history from 753 BCE, the legendary date of the city's founding, to 476 CE, the date traditionally marking the collapse of central administration in the western Roman Empire. The course will focus on social and cultural history, but will also provide exposure to other aspects of ancient history and associated methodologies such as archaeology and art history. While material remains such as architectural ruins, works of art, and inscriptions are invaluable, their interpretation depends heavily on literary works, which remain our principle sources for understanding virtually all aspects of Classical antiquity. Consequently, course readings will focus on ancient literary works in translation.

TAs for Winter, 2000 will be Helmut Langerbein and Philip Whalen.

Section times and places will be announced in the Schedule and Directory.

Course Requirements
1) You will be expected to attend lectures (3 per week) and discussion meetings (1 per week) regularly. If you don't think that you're likely to be comfortable with this requirement, do not take this course.

2) You will be required to take daily quizzes beginning with the fourth class meeting. These quizzes will be based on the previous class lecture and on the reading assigned for that day in the syllabus. Each quiz will consist of four questions of which you will be expected to answer two. Each of the two answers will be scored on a scale of 0 to 2. You will have to average a score of 4 on each quiz to pass the course. You get two free misses. Otherwise a missed quiz will be graded as zero. There will be no make-up quizzes in the case of missed classes, unless you make an arrangement with me before the date of the original exam that you expect to miss or in the case of a family emergency or a formal medical excuse.

3) You will be required to write three five-page papers based on assigned readings discussed in discussion meetings. These papers will be due most likely during the 3rd, 7th, and 10th weeks of the course; the exact day will depend on what section you attend.

4) In order to pass the course, you will have to do passing work on each of its requirements: i.e., each of your three papers and your over-all quiz score must all be passing.

Note: Papers are due at the beginning of class on the dates assigned. They will be accepted as late papers up to 24 hours later. Thereafter they will not be accepted and you will automatically be assigned a No Pass for the course, except in the case of a family emergency or of a formal medical excuse.

Required Reading (on sale at Bay Tree and on reserve at McHenry; listed in the order to be assigned)

Livy, trans. DeSelincourt, The Early History of Rome (Baltimore, Md.: Penguin).
Tom B. JOnes, From the Tigris to the Tiber (Dorsey Press: Chicago, 1989).
Robert B. Kebric, Roman People (Mayfield Publishing: Mountain View, CA. 1993).
Plautus, trans. Watling, The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Penguin, 1965)
Virgil, trans., Mandlebaum, The Aeneid (New York: Bantam, 1972).
Apuleius, trans. Lindsay, The Golden Ass (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, 1962).
L'Orange, H. P., Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1965).

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History 25A : US History to 1877

Professor: Bruce Levine

E-mail: blevine@cats.ucsc.edu
Office: 33 Merrill
Phone: 459-2927

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed for freshman and sophomores. It offers an introductory survey of the history of what would eventually become the United States of America. It covers the years stretching from the beginning of the seventeenth century through the end of the Civil War era (usually identified with the year 1877). Juniors and seniors may well find such a course insufficiently intensive and demanding.

ASSIGNED TEXTS (Tentative list)

Paul S. Boyer and others, THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (Houghton Mifflin), vol. I.

Benjamin Franklin, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND OTHER WRITINGS (Signet).

Theda Purdue and Michael D. Green, THE CHEROKEE REMOVAL (Bedford/St. Martin's)

Henry Louis Gates, ed., THE CLASSIC SLAVE NARRATIVES (Mentor/Penguin). This quarter, we will read Linda Brentís AIncidents in the Life of A Slave Girl,@ which is included in this collection.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

All students are expected to attend all lectures, all discussion section meetings, and to be up-to-date on all reading assignments. Attendance will be taken in both lecture and discussion sections. Any student missing more than three lectures or three discussion section meetings will automatically be dropped from the course. Participation (and not merely attendance) in discussion section is expected of all students. There will be two full-length exams -- a midterm and a final. The mid-term exam will cover the first five weeks of the course. The final exam will cover the course as a whole. Both exams will be take-home exams.

LECTURE & READING SCHEDULE

Below are listed the lecture themes for each week. Lectures will rarely be neatly paired with readings and will often cover material not included in the text. But familiarity with the text will make the lectures far easier to understand and will be essential to passing the exams.

WEEK ONE: THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

WEEK TWO: THE COLONIAL SOUTH

WEEK THREE: THE COLONIAL NORTH

WEEK FOUR: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

WEEK FIVE: THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1789-1815

WEEK SIX: THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH: KING COTTON & HIS SUBJECTS

WEEK SEVEN: THE ANTEBELLUM NORTH: FREE-LABOR SOCIETY

WEEK EIGHT: CHANGING PATTERNS OF FAMILY LIFE, GENDER ROLES, AND RELIGION, 1790-1860

WEEK NINE: POLITICAL STRUGGLES, 1800-1860: DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, AND SLAVERY

WEEK TEN: THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION: CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION

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History 125C: European Intellectual History 1870-1970

Instructor: Bruce Thompson

This course offers a survey of major movements in European intellectual and cultural history from the early modernism of Nietzsche and his successors to the structuralism of the 1960s. It also illuminates the role of the politically engaged intellectual during the crisis years of the 20th century. And it seeks to place its intellectuals in definite historical contexts by focusing each week on one or more of major European cities as sites of cultural innovation.
 
TOPICS AND READINGS:

1. SCANDAL AND CRITICISM: NIETZSCHE, IBSEN, JOYCE Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
James Joyce, "The Dead"
 
2. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS: FIN DE SIECLE VIENNA
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Arthur Schnitzler, plays and stories

3. BOHEMIA AND THE AVANT-GARDE: PARIS AND THE CIRCLE OF
PICASSO
Guillaume Apollinaire, poems and calligrammes Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi

4. THE GREAT WAR
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Siegfried Sassoon et al, war poems

5. WEIMAR CULTURE
Max Weber, "Politics as a Vocation"
Thomas Mann, "Disorder and Early Sorrow" and Mario and the Magician"
Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

 
6. DUTIFUL DAUGHTERS
Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone Weil, The Iliad, Poem of Force

7. THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER
Anna Akhmatova, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Bertolt Brecht, poems
Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

8. EXISTENTIALISM
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" and "The Wall"
Albert Camus, "The Guest" and "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Raymond Aron, Intellectual Memoirs

9. THEATER OF THE ABSURD: PARIS AND PRAGUE
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Vaclav Havel, The Memorandum

10. STRUCTURALISM
Claude Levi-Strauss, "The Scope of Anthropology"

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History 196G:
THE CIVIL WAR ERA , 1820-1877:
SELECTED THEMES AND PROBLEMS

Professor: Bruce Levine

E-mail: blevine@cats.ucsc.edu
Office: 33 Merrill
Phone: 459-2927

DESCRIPTION:

The Civil War, broadly conceived, is generally acknowledged to be the most important turning point in U.S. history. During the last thirty years, the output of scholarly writing on the Civil War era (from the origins of the sectional conflict through the end of Reconstruction) and its multiple facets and implications has been enormous. New questions arise and controversies proliferate steadily. This colloquium will aim at a critical, in-depth look at selected topics in the historiography of this pivotal era.

The structure and content of this course assumes a familiarity with the basic chronology and themes of the Civil War era. Previous enrollment in one of the following courses is a necessary pre-requisite: The Origins of the Civil War (History 180), The Civil War & Reconstruction (History 181), or The Second American Revolution (History 22).

ASSIGNMENTS

Students are expected to attend and actively participate in each week's discussion of readings. Over the course of the quarter, each student will write five brief essays (i.e., one every other week). Each essay will be approximately five pages in length and will discuss issues raised in the week=s reading assignments. The purpose of the essay is not so much to demonstrate your mastery of the historians= opinions. Rather, you are asked to summarize and evaluate those opinions in order, in the process, to clarify and sharpen your own views about the issues in dispute.

Course evaluations will place approximately equal weight on seminar papers and verbal contributions to seminar discussions.

Weekly Reading & Discussion

In the past, weekly reading & discussion topics in this course have included:

The Nature of Slavery and Relations between Masters and Slaves

Relations between Large Planters and Other Southern Whites

The Antislavery Movement in the North

The Role of Gender in the Politics of the Civil War Era

The Civil War as a Spur to the Development of American Capitalism

The Origins of the Republican Party

Southern Secession from the Union and the Northern Response

Why the North Won, Why the South Lost

How Slavery Was Destroyed

What Came after Slavery and Why?