Graduate Courses

Field | World History
Term | Fall 2022

This course assesses the literature on race relations and slavery in Brazil. It situates the topic within a comparative, Atlantic framework and provides a critical understanding of the chief issues and debates in the field.

Field | European History
Term | Fall 2022

This course will introduce students to twentieth-century Russian, Eurasian, and East European history in its global contexts. The course is designed to give students general knowledge of the region's recent past while allowing them to explore a topic from this past relevant to their own research interests.

Field | European History
Term | Fall 2022

This seminar focuses on the international relations of the twentieth-century Caribbean, with emphasis on interactions between Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, the United States, and Venezuela. Students will analyze the ways that international action and response in these countries have affected policy, government, and international social movements.

Field | Public History
Term | Fall 2022

A seminar based upon developing a theoretical and practical understanding of the techniques of oral historical research and document preservation and presentation.

Field | United States History
Term | Fall 2022

This course focuses on intensive reading, writing, and research to help students understand the United States from the perspective of African Americans. As a discussion-based course, students will read recent articles and books in the field of African American History to learn the unique methods and approaches scholars have used to uncover the Black past.

Field | United States History
Term | Fall 2022

A seminar based on selected topics in the history of the frontier in American development.

Field | World History
Term | Fall 2022

This graduate seminar explores the impact of race, gender, and ethnicity upon American Labor History. Readings integrate race, gender, and ethnicity as categories of analysis into the study of class formation, experiences, and consciousness within the American labor force. The focus will be on unorganized as well as organized workers in the context of their social, cultural, political, and workplace environments.

Field | Core Course

A general introduction to key concepts, approaches, and challenges involved in reading, researching, and writing history at the professional level.

Field | American History
Term | Summer 2, 2022

This seminar is based on selected topics in military history. May be repeated with different emphases up to nine hours.

Field | Public History
Term | Fall 2022

A seminar addressing the definition, evolution, and philosophy of public history.

Field | Public History

This seminar addresses the management of cultural resources such as historic buildings, historic sites, and other tangible remains of our heritage. It explores how cultural resources are preserved and managed under federal and state law, and the nature of the regulatory practice.

Field | Public History
Term | Fall 2022

This course examines issues and effective methods of interpretating historic sites open to visitors associated with tragic historical events and practices, such as battlefields, concentration camps, massacre sites, and plantation houses, that are to the public. Dark tourism sites in the United States and around the world will be examined.

Field | World History
Term | Fall 2022

The Chinese Communist movement from 1919 to the present. Will focus on (1) urban and rural aspects of Chinese Communism; (2) the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party on mainland China in 1949; and (3) the construction of the Party-State and Socialism in the People’s Republic of China.

Field | World History

This course examines Chinese relations with the modern world from 1800 to the present, focusing on the external aggression and internal transformation between 1839 and 1945; the split into two Chinas in 1949; the mainland China/Taiwan developments, interactions between the two Chinese governments and among the world community since then.

Field | World and European History
Term | Fall 2022

This seminar will survey literature characteristic of the "new" Cold War historiography, and introduce students to primary sources available at Alkek required to write valuable original work.

Field | Core Courses
Fall | 2022

A seminar designed to enhance research and writing skills in history. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.