Courses: Winter 2010

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SCHEDULE OF MA AND PhD PROGRAMS: WINTER TERM 2010

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

• Academic Writing IV. (Mandatory for 1YMA and 2YMA 2nd Year, 2 credits, M. Lojko and R. Bellers)
• PhD Tutorial II. (Mandatory for PhD 1st Year, 2 credits, M. Siefert)
• Ph.D. Research Seminar (Mandatory  for Ph.D. 3rd Year, 4 credits, S. Zimmermann)
• Historiography II: Grand Debates on Issues of the History of Central, Eastern and Southestern Europe (MA, 2 credits, Mandatory for 2YMA 1st Year, G. Klaniczay, B. Trencsenyi, Crosslisted with Medieval Studies Department)
• MA Thesis Planning Seminar (MA, 2 credits, Mandatory for 2YMA 1st Year, J. Laszlovszky, L. Kontler)

2. Social and Political History in a Comparative Perspective

• Topics in the Modern History of the Balkans (PhD, 2 credits, R. Daskalov)
• Social and Cultural History of Eastern Europe (MA, 4 credits, R. Daskalov)
• Justifying Political Power in 19th Century Europe: The Habsburg Monarchy and Beyond (MA, 4 credits, M. Janowski)
• Topics in East European History (PhD, 2 credits, K. Hall and A. Miller)
• Elite Formation and Ruling Classes in Central Europe from Feudalism to Socialism. Comparative Perspectives, Problem Areas and Research Methods on Higher Education, Social Mobility and Stratification  (MA, 2 credits, V. Karady)
• Topics in Central European History (Ph.D., 2 credits, M. Janowski)
• The Metropolis (MA, 2 credits, G. Gyani, Crosslisted with Sociology Department)
• History of Public Health and Health Policy (MA, 4 credits, O. Parnes)
• Age and Aging in History (Ph.D., 2 credits, O. Parnes)
• Approaches to Counter-Cultural Movements in East-Central Europe, 1960-1990 (MA, 2 credits, B. Trencsenyi and G. Klaniczay)
• The Political Languages of Anti-Modernism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1945 (MA, 4 credits, B. Trencsenyi)
• Internationalism and the Transformation of Global Inequality Reform Politics Across Borders, 19th and 20th Centuries (MA, 2 credits, S. Zimmermann, Crosslisted with Nationalism and Gender Studies)
• Fin-de-siècle Cities in Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires. A Comparative Viewpoint (MA, 2 credits, M. Prokopovych, Crosslisted with Medieval Studies Department)

3. Ethnicity, Nations, Nationalism and Empires in History

• Imperial Order and Nationalism in Contiguous Empires: A Comparative Perspective.  (MA, 4 credits, A. Miller)
• Contested Identities in Contingent Borderlands: Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1600-1900 (MA, 4 credits, M. Dmitriev) 
• Theories of Nationalism and their East-European Applications  (Ph.D., 2 credits, M. Dmitriev) 
• The Late Ottoman Empire and Balkan Nationalism: The View from Istanbul  (MA open to PhD, 4 credits, S. Deringil, Crosslisted with Nationalism Studies)
• Transnationalism and the Jews of the Nineteenth Century (MA, 2 credits, C. Wilke, Crosslisted with Nationalism Studies)

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

• Arts and Politics: Modernism and Modernity in European Art   (MA, 2 credits, I. Sármány-Parsons)
• Popular Movements and the Crowd: Religion, Culture and Society (PhD open to MA, 2 credits, N. Al-Bagdadi)
• Space and Science II: Power, Networks and the Circulation of Knowledge in the 16th-19th Centuries (European and Global Perspectives) (Ph.D. open to MA, 2 credits, L. Kontler) 
• Borderlands in Islamic and Ottoman History (MA, 4 credits, T.U. Esmer)
• Sephardic Jewry in Exile, 1492 to the present (MA, 4 credits, C. Wilke, Crosslisted with Medieval Studies Department)
• Reformation, Tolerance, Heterodoxy in Early Modern Europe (MA, 2 credits, Gy. Szonyi)
• Religion and Authority - An Introduction to the Comparative History of Civilizations (MA, 2 credits, M. Riedl, Crosslisted with Medieval Studies Department)
• Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist Religions, Part II: Early modern and modern (MA, 2 credits, N. Al-Bagdadi and A. Al-Azmeh, Crosslisted with Medieval Studies Department)
• Messianism: From the Age of Revelation to Age of Revolution (MA, 4 credits, M. Riedl and M. Miller, Crosslisted with Medieval Studies Department and Nationalism Studies)

 For accreditation purposes you may consult the associated learning outcomes grid (see File Attachments below).