Courses: Fall 2009

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SCHEDULE OF MA AND PhD PROGRAM: FALL TERM 2009

1. Historical Studies: Theories, Methods, Skills, Historiography

• Academic Writing I (mandatory MA, 2 credits, R. Bellers and A. Kirchknopf)
• Academic Writing II (mandatory MA, 2 credits, M. Lojkó, J. Rasson)
• Modern Historiography (1YMA: mandatory lecture and seminar, 4 credits; 2YMA 1st year: mandatory lecture, 2 credits, L. Kontler)
• Introduction to Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Studies in History (mandatory 2Y MA, 2 credits, C. Iordachi and Gy. Gereby)
• Comparative Approaches to Historical Research (mandatory PhD,  2 credits, J. Kochanowicz, C. Iordachi)
• PhD Tutorial I, (mandatory course for 1st year PhD student, 2 credits, M. Siefert)
• 2Y MA Thesis Seminar (mandatory for 2YMA 2nd year, 2 credits, S. Zimmermann)
• Approaches to the Past (MA, 2 credits, I. Rev)

2. Social and Political History in a Comparative Perspective

• Cities: Urban life and society in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (MA, 4 credits, Topical Survey Course for the 2Year MA Program, M. Propokovych - K. Szende)
• Urban Change and the Right to the City  (MA, 4 credits,J. Bodnár)
• Social Change Under Communism (MA, 4 credits, J. Kochanowicz)
• Totalitarianism and Mass Politics in East Central Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Fascism and Communism, 1918-1989 (MA, 4 credits, C. Iordachi)
• Social History of Central European Jewry (MA, 4 credits, V. Karady) 
• Birth of the World Economic System and Formation of Modern Societies (MA, 2 credits, L. Rácz)

3. Ethnicity, Nations, Nationalism and Empires in History

• A Disintegrated Integration: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1848-1918) (MA, 4 credits, A. Gerő)
• Political Modernities and Nation-Building in Central and Southeast Europe (MA, 4 credits, B. Trencsényi)
• Social Discontent and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire (MA, 4 credits, T. U. Esmer)

4. Culture, Religion and Intellectual History in a Comparative Perspective

• Governance and Improvement: State, Society and Legitimacy from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment (MA, 4 credits, L. Kontler)
• Topics in Intellectual History of Central and Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century (MA, 4 credits, K. Hall)
• Writing Intellectual History in East-Central Europe, 1945-2000 (PhD, 2 credits, B. Trencsényi)
• The Future of Human Nature (PhD, 2 credits, K. Hall)
• Political Theology - Ancient and Modern (MA, 4 credits, Topical Survey Course for the 2Year MA Program, Matthias Riedl and Gy. Gereby)
• Intensive Reading Seminar: Augustine's The City of God (MA, 2 credits, Matthias Riedl)
• Medieval Iberian Jewry under Muslim and Christian Rule (MA, 2 credits, C. Wilke)
• The Ottomans and the Challenges of Building a Multi-Confessional Empire (MA, 4 credits, Topical Survey Course for the 2Year MA Program, T. U. Esmer and T. Krstic)
• Secularism and Religion - Comparative Perspectives on Islam and Christianity (MA, 4 credits, N. Al-Bagdadi and V. Naumescu)
• Reading Class - Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist Religions, Part I (MA, 2 credits, N. Al-Bagdadi and A. Alazmeh)
• Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist Religions, Part I (MA, 2 credits, N. Al-Bagdadi and A. Al-Azmeh)

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