#### History 4059-001 - Beverly Bond BLACK MEMPHIS

TR - 1:00-2:25 This course will focus on the social and cultural, political, and economic roles of African Americans in Memphis from the early nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century. The course will place Memphis in the context of state, regional and national events, and will explore issues of race, class and gender both within African American communities and between African Americans and other populations in the city. We will first explore the early migrations of African Americans into Tennessee and into Memphis/Shelby County, the lifestyles of enslaved and free African Americans in the area; the impact of Civil War emancipations and migrations on social, political, and economic life in Memphis; African American communities that developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; the impact of Progressivism on the city's black communities; the Civil Rights and Black Freedom movements in the city, and racial dynamics in contemporary Memphis.

History 4062-001 - Catherine Phipps URBAN JAPAN - Catherine Phipps URBAN JAPAN TR - 9:40-11:05 MI 305 In this course we will explore the formation and development of Japanese cities over the course of the past one thousand years. As we consider their physical, political, socio-economic, and cultural histories, we will also be learning about Japanese history and urban history more generally. We ' ll consider, for example, how a city ' s form might promote or reflect specific functions and ideas, how public spaces differ from private spaces, and how urban hierarchies shift according to local, national, and global circumstances.

#### History 4064-001 - Yan Gao CHINESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY THROUGH FILMS

W - 5:30-8:30 MI 209 This course is about film, culture and history. It does not pretend to be a history of film, but is both an introduction to some issues of Chinese culture and society and an examination of how Chinese history is treated in film, especially Chinese film of the past twenty years. We have selected some well-made films exploring some key issues of Chinese culture and society, including Zhang Yimou's early works, documentaries made in the U.S. with Chinese assistance, and several works by leading Italian, Taiwanese and Chinese American directors. In a few cases themes will be illustrated in excerpts. The readings consist of topical articles and book chapters. The weekly sessions will normally begin with a film viewing and conclude with discussion. Our purpose is to explore the social atmosphere and central issues in Chinese culture and society in juxtaposition to the films, developing critical skills in writing, observation, film, and historical imagination.

#### History 4065-001 - Glenn Ramsey WEIMAR GERMANY

MWF9:10-10:05 MI 203 This course explores the literature, art, theater, and cinema of the Weimar Republic, Germany between 1918 and 1933, in order to better understand the revolutionary visions of modernity, with regard to gender, sexuality, and socio- economic and political change, produced within an historical context of global catastrophe. Whether during the aftermath of national defeat and revolution (November 1918), the hyperinflation of the early 1920s (1921-1924), or the Great Depression (1927-1933), Germany witnessed some of the most progressive cultural and social movements of twentieth-century Europe, during these momentous years of the inter-war period. And yet, the nation ultimately succumbed to one of the most disastrous scourges of the European Right, Nazism. How could this be? The answer to this query lies in part with the vortex of contradictory cultural meanings (as representation) generated within the unstable dynamics of revolutionary political change itself. In this course, we will discover and analyze these contradictory cultural meanings as they both shaped and haunted public imaginings of an as yet indefinable modern German republic.

#### History 4105-001 Steven Stein WARINTHE ANCIENT WORLD -

MWF - 10:20-11:15 MI 209 This course covers the development of war and warfare from roughly 2000 BCE to 1200 ACE, that is from the Bronze Age to the great Mongol conquests, with a particular emphasis on Greek and Roman warfare. Along with tactical means, operational methods, and the development of strategies to apply organized violence for political, economic, or social ends, the course will also examine differing theories of war and their historical development. The course devotes particular attention to the relationships between different cultures, changing technology, the influence of culture on war and war on society and culture, the conduct of war, and the reasons for war. The course will address both land and naval warfare. Field warfare, siege or positional warfare, guerrilla warfare and wars of economic attrition will be addressed as distinct branches of military theory and practice. The course will focus on six dominant themes: the tactical and operational means by which