[Histmaj] History Junior and Senior Seminars for Autumn 2024

[HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORS via Histmaj]

Historians-
I know that Autumn 2024 is months away, and registration doesn't start until May3rd, but if you intend to take a History Junior or Senior Seminar, now is the time to ask for an add code for the course you would like to take!
Here are descriptions (below) from the faculty of each Junior and Senior Seminar offered in Autumn 2024 to help you make registration choices.
We recommend students have completed at least two 300-400 level History courses before taking HSTRY 388.  Students need to have taken HSTRY 388 before they are eligible to register in HSTRY 494 or 498.
If you want to add one of these courses, email the History Advising address (histadv at uw.edu<mailto:histadv at uw.edu>) to be given an add code or to be put on the waiting list.  Please remember to give clear information about which section you want to add, and also include your name and UW student number.  These classes fill VERY quickly, so request your add codes sooner than later.

Junior Seminars:
HSTRY 388  B
TOPIC: AMERICA IN 1968
SLN: 16612
Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30-12:20
Margaret O'Mara
This course goes deep into one extraordinary year in American history: 1968, a twelve-month period that disrupted and reshaped the United States in ways still being felt, and fought over, more than a half century later. Engaging both secondary and primary source materials, the course moves through the year's events month by month, tracing a steadily escalating U.S. intervention in Vietnam, generational ruptures at home, a fiercely contested presidential election, tragic assassinations, and accelerating technological and cultural shifts. We will consider how postwar affluence and rising education levels transformed college campuses and youth culture, how the dominance of television as a communication medium altered Americans' perceptions of their nation and its leaders, and how multiple movements for civil and economic rights challenged and reshaped the nature of American democracy and individual identity. We'll cover sit-ins and be-ins, political conventions and rock festivals, religious revivals and Moon shots. The seminar will introduce you to major debates in the historiography of the 1960s as well as familiarize you with the fundamentals of historical research, including the sources and methods historians use to understand and interpret modern U.S. political, social, economic, and cultural history. The course will sharpen your historical writing, discussion, and presentation skills and prepare you to conduct future research of your own.
This is a Writing (W) course.
HSTRY 388  C
TOPIC: "WAR STORIES: RECORDING, REMEMBERING, AND REIMAGINING WORLD WAR II"
SLN: 16613
Mondays 130-420PM
Susan Glenn

In the United States the lore and legacy that constitute the national memory of World War II is so familiar to many people that it remains an important touchstone into our own time. In this course we will explore the making of the legacy of World War II from locations often neglected in our collective memory of that time, including the initial indifference of many Americans to the rise of European fascism and the persecution of Jews and the impact of ethnic and racial animosities on the battlefields and on the American home front.  We will read or view a wide range of primary works as well as turning our attention to the contemporary recycling of the meaning of that period in our nation's past.  Readings include accounts by journalists, novelists, filmmakers, and works by historians. Through them we hope to gain a better understanding of the myriad ways in which the war and its effects have been recorded, remembered, and re-imagined.
Students will learn how to work with primary sources, develop competence in the close reading of texts, learn to analyze questions from multiple perspectives, and become attuned to "silences" in the sources by paying attention to what is and is not directly stated in a text. In written work and oral contributions, students will develop their skills in building and substantiating their own arguments.
This is a Writing (W) course.

HSTRY 388  D
TOPIC: "ROME AND JUDAEA: EMPIRE, RELIGION, AND RESISTANCE"
SLN: 16614
Mondays and Wednesdays 100-220PM
Mark Letteney
Fuller Description of This Course to Follow in Later Emails.


Senior Seminars:
HSTRY 498  A
TOPIC: "CIVIL RIGHTS AND LABOR MOVEMENTS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST"
SLN: 16618
Thursdays 130-420PM
James Gregory

This class explores the history of social justice activism in the Pacific Northwest. Civil rights movements representing many different communities, labor unions, women's movements, LGBTQ activists, and various radical organizations have played major roles in defining political values in the area since the late 19th century. No other region has a more vibrant history of labor and civil rights activism. Students will design research projects that examine particular issues, events, or organizations related to this theme.

The UW History Department is home to the online Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium, a set of website projects that explore issues relating to this course.  Students in earlier HSTRY 498 seminars have been involved in producing these projects and there may be an opportunity for some students in the current class to publish their research papers. You will find the projects here Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium<https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/index.shtml>Links to an external site.<https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/index.shtml>
This is a Writing (W) course.

HSTRY 498  B
TOPIC: "BODIES, COMMODITIES, AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS"
SLN: 16619
Tuesdays 1030AM-1220PM
Nathan Roberts
This conceptually-rich seminar explores the interplay between physical bodies (human and non-human), commodities and the process of commodification, and specific places and environments.  Far from being discrete entities, each of these permeates the others in ways that challenge our understandings of materiality.  Drawing on literature especially from environmental history, the class investigates histories of enslavement and wage labor, public health, consumer trends, and environmental change.  The course calls into question the agency of non-human parts of environments, examines the social histories of consumer goods, and illuminates how our bodies are both in and of markets and ecologies.
This is a Writing (W) course.


Sincerely,
Mark and Tracy


Mark Weitzenkamp and Tracy Maschman Morrissey
History Undergraduate Advising
University of Washington
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