[Histmaj] Now is the Time to Ask for Add Codes for Junior and Senior Seminars in Autumn 2025

[HISTORY UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORS via Histmaj]

Historians-
Hopefully your Spring quarter is nicely settled in, but it is already time to think about Autumn registration for History Junior Seminars and Senior Seminars.  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!  I know that both Tracy and I have said to almost every new major that you need to plan ahead to get an add code for these class, since they fill up so quickly.  Now is the time!
Here are descriptions (below) from the faculty of each Junior and Senior Seminar offered in Autumn 2025 to help you make registration choices.  The full Autumn Time Schedule has been released, but you should assume that there will be changes in the five months before the quarter actually starts.  For example, HSTRY 388 C does not currently have a topic or instructor, so please don't ask for an add code for that until you hear what it is.
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  A
TOPIC: Black Histories in the Pacific Northwest
SLN: 16526
TTh 130-320
Prof. Travis Wright

This seminar introduces students to the practice of history through the study of Black life, culture, and activism in the Pacific Northwest. Often overlooked in national narratives, Black communities in PNW states have long confronted exclusion, displacement, and racial violence-while also building institutions, leading labor and civil rights struggles, and reshaping the cultural and political life of the region. Through primary sources, oral histories, scholarly texts, and public history projects, students will explore the rich and complex histories of Black life and resistance in the Pacific Northwest. The course emphasizes key historical skills, including source analysis, critical reading, writing, and research while also encouraging students to consider the dynamic relationship between race, place, and historical memory.

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HSTRY 388  B
TOPIC: American Social Movements Since 1900: From Woman Suffrage to Black Lives Matter to White Nationalism
SLN: 15727
MW 1230-220pm
Prof. James Gregory

Social movements are a key feature of American politics. Certain social movements have been highly influential, reshaping ideas and political life, achieving major changes in law and policy, in some cases rearranging rules of race, gender, and economy. Others have been much less effective. This course explores the dynamics and the history of social movements of many kinds seeking to understand how they work and how they achieve influence. Moving chronologically, we will explore Woman Suffrage movements in the early decades of the 20th century,  the labor radicalism of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, unemployed movements in the 1930s, civil rights movements from the 1950s-1970s, ending with two recent social movements: the Black Lives Matter movement and right-wing populism/white nationalism.


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Seniors Seminars

HSTRY 494  A
TOPIC: History and Memory
SLN: 16530
M 230-420pm
Prof. Elena Campbell

This seminar will focus on the problem of collective memory as viewed from the perspective of its social, political and cultural functions, as well as its institutional and cultural expressions. We shall explore the process by which societies construct and make sense of their past through the examination of different forms of commemoration (celebrations, monuments, museums, archives). Special attention will be paid to the relationship between memory and national identity. The case studies will focus on Russia and will be analyzed in comparison with examples from other countries. Finally, we shall discuss the analytical potential of the concept of social memory for historians and other scholars.  This is a Writing credit course.

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HSTRY 494  B
TOPIC: The Roaring Twenties
SLN: 23199
W 1030-1220
Prof. Margaret O'Mara

Flappers, jazz, bootleggers, Prohibition, motor cars and movie stars - and the KKK, xenophobia, real estate bubbles, devastating floods, and hard times on the farm. This seminar explores the roaring and consequential decade of the 1920s in the United States, which not only was a pivot point in modern American history but left a long shadow on the decades that followed. We will read scholarly and contemporaneous sources (both fiction and nonfiction) that explore many dimensions of American life in the 1920s, with the goal of deepening our understanding of the decade beyond pop-culture representations and understand the critical role this moment played in the formation of modern politics, art, and culture. This is a Writing (W) credit course.

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HSTRY 498 B
TOPIC: Medieval Outlaws
SLN: 16534
T 130-320pm
Prof. Charity Urbanski

The purpose of this course is to introduce undergraduate students to the transition from being consumers of history to producers of history.  It will emphasize critical reading and analysis of primary and secondary literature, the theoretical and methodological problems of historical research, and involve students in doing original primary research.  Its focus is on the process of historical reading, research, and writing.  Our theme is medieval outlaws.  While our primary sources are mainly literary works, we will be concerned with determining what these legends and the mythology of the outlaw can tell us about social organization, values, and the limits of legal systems in medieval Europe.  We will also address the changing legal status of the outlaw, as well as the evolution and historical context of outlaw legends. This is a Writing credit course.

Sincerely,
Mark and Tracy

Mark Weitzenkamp and Tracy Maschman Morrissey
History Undergraduate Advising
University of Washington
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Box 353560
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