Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Courses

Economics

• ECN 662 - Public Finance in Developing Areas

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Crosslisted with: PAI 758 
  Public finance in less-developed countries. Urban taxation and provision of public services. Considering efficiency and equity issues.
  PREREQ: PAI 723 
  
• ECN 665 - International Economics

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, international trade theory, tariffs, quotas adjustment mechanisms, and exchange controls.
  
• ECN 681 - Money,Banking&Monetary Policy

  3 credit(s) Only during the summer

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  Financial instruments and structure, banking organization and regulation. Money supply determination control and policy. The Federal Reserve: structure and policy instruments. Master’s or doctoral candidates only.
  PREREQ: ECN 602 
  
• ECN 720 - Topics in Econometrics

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Selected topics in applied and advanced econometrics.
  PREREQ: ECN 622 
  Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
  
• ECN 731 - Public Expenditures

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Theory of public goods; incidence of expenditures; intergovernmental relations; expenditure determinants, benefit-cost analysis.
  
• ECN 732 - Taxation

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Tax structures at federal, state, and local levels. Incidence and effects of property, income, and commodity taxation. Analysis of tax equity.
  
• ECN 741 - Urban Economics

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Urban land-use patterns, transportation, and housing. Theoretical and quantitative framework.
  
• ECN 745 - Regional Economics

  3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5

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  Theory and analysis of regional economics; interregional income theory and factor movements, regional growth, accounts, and policy.
  
• ECN 751 - Labor Economics I

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Theory and evidence. Static and dynamic models of labor supply and demand, human capital, wage determination, and effects of family background on labor market outcomes.
  
• ECN 752 - Labor Economics II

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Income distribution, effects of health on work and wages, discrimination, retirement decisions, and impacts of government programs and policies.
  PREREQ: ECN 751 
  
• ECN 765 - Advanced International Trade

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Trade theory, derivation of models, theory of protection. Impact of technology, market structure, and taxation on pattern of trade.
  
• ECN 776 - Economics of Science and Technology

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Crosslisted with: PAI 776 
  Interaction of technological change and policy. Introduction to the economic analysis of knowledge as a public good. Diffusion of knowledge and the role knowledge transfer plays in the industrialized world and in the economic growth of developing nations.
  PREREQ: PAI 723  OR ECN 601 
  
• ECN 777 - Economics of Environmental Policy

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Crosslisted with: PAI 777 
  How economic incentives may lead to environmental problems and how government policy can maintain or improve environmental quality. Methods for valuing the benefits of environmental amenities and the effects of environmental policy on economic growth.
  PREREQ: PAI 723  OR ECN 601 
  
• ECN 820 - Dissertation Workshop I

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  For dissertators at all stages, providing critical feedback for those who are advanced and guidance for those who are beginning. Coverage includes: establishing a topic (originality, importance, search); trade off and balance between theory and empirical research; oral and written presentation, packaging, persuasion.
  Repeatable
  
• ECN 821 - Dissertation Workshop II

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  This course is intended to give experience in writing and presenting papers as well as evaluation of classmates’ papers. Third- and fourth-year graduate economics students.
  Repeatable
  
• ECN 865 - Topics International Economics

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Understanding of the intuition, theory, and methods underlying current research on trade and trade policy. Overall picture of research on international trade policy.
  PREREQ: ECN 665  OR ECN 765 
  
• ECN 997 - Masters Thesis

  1-6 credit(s) Every semester

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  Repeatable
  
• ECN 999 - Dissertation

  1-15 credit(s) Every semester

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  Repeatable
  

Geography

• GEO 500 - Topics in Geography

  1-3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  In-depth studies of selected topics.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 510 - Research on North America

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 520 - Research on Latin America

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Crosslisted with: LAS 520 
  Reading and special work
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 530 - Research on Africa

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 537 - Environmental Policy in a Development Context

  3 credit(s) Every semester

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  Crosslisted with: LAS 537 
  Offered only in Santiago. Examines historical/intellectual/ material processes that transformed nature into natural resources to be exploited; ways global political process has guided global responses to environmental problems; Chilean environmental policy over the last 20 years.
  
• GEO 538 - Research on Europe

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 540 - Research on Southern and Eastern Asia

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 550 - Research on Physical Geography

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 560 - Research: Economic Geography

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 561 - Global Economic Geography

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Globalization, world economic processes, international development, and policy issues; emphasizing geographical perspectives.
  
• GEO 563 - The Urban Condition

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Contemporary cities. Economic growth and decline. Social polarization. Construction of the built environment. Case studies from around the world.
  
• GEO 564 - Urban Historical Geography

  3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8

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  Cities in western civilization through classical, medieval, mercantile, and industrial eras to 1945. Historical geographic meanings of urbanism; social construction of the built environment; and relationships between power, social justice, and urban spatial form.
  
• GEO 570 - Research on Cultural Geography

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 572 - Landscape Interpretation in Cultural Geography

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Contemporary theories and methods. Traditional, historical-materialist, postmodernism, and post-structuralist approaches to landscape. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
• GEO 573 - The Geography of Capital

  3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8

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  In-depth reading of Marx’s Capital to understand: (a) the relationship between political economy and the geographical landscape; (b) the formative role of “Capital” in contemporary geographic theory.
  
• GEO 576 - Gender, Place, and Space

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Crosslisted with: WGS 576 
  Contemporary debates in feminist geography on the gendered construction of space and the spatial construction of gender.
  
• GEO 580 - Research on Cartographic Techniques

  1-12 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Reading and special work.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 583 - Environmental Geographical Information Science

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Data types, collection techniques, and processing strategies in natural resource survey. Monitoring and environmental sciences. Basic concepts of GIS data structures and algorithms. Data quality issues. User requirements, management aspects, and implementation experience.
  PREREQ: GEO 383 OR GEO 683 
  
• GEO 595 - Geography and the Internet

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  An introduction to the structure and functions of the Internet and its impact on spatial relations from the global to the local. A detailed examination of the World Wide Web and practical training in web page design.
  
• GEO 600 - Selected Topics

  1-3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 602 - Research Design in Geography

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Approaches to research, alternative philosophies, and research designs. Research procedures, information gathering. Collection of original data. Formulation of individual research topics.
  
• GEO 603 - Development of Geographic Thought

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Historical survey of development of Geography. Emphasis on 20th century: regionalism, positivism, humanism, Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism/post-colonialism
  
• GEO 606 - Development and Sustainability

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Critical analysis of international development and sustainability. Focuses on the complex political, economic, cultural, and ecological processes involved in development discourse and practice. Readings and case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
  
• GEO 609 - Readings and Special Work in Advanced Geography

  1-3 credit(s) Every semester

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  Topics to be selected in conference with advisor for individual program of study and research.
  
• GEO 610 - Qualitative Methods in Geography

  3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8

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  This course provides an overview of qualitative methods in human geography. It examines the relationship between methodology, epistemology, and politics, compares different qualitative methods, and gives students hands-on experience with a range of methodological tools.
  
• GEO 655 - Biogeography

  3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5

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  Double Numbered with: GEO 455
  Exploration of the environmental factors that influence the distribution of organisms. Emphasis is on plant distributions and dynamics, and consideration includes both natural and human factors. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
• GEO 670 - Experience Credit

  1-6 credit(s) Every semester

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  Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 672 - Geopolitics and the State

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Survey of political geographic research on states, nations, territories, and their connection with geopolitical theories and the practice of foreign policy; focus on critical approach to applied geopolitical thinking.
  
• GEO 681 - Map Design

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Principles of cartographic design. Expository cartography for geographic research. Projections, symbolization, generalization, and use of electronic publishing technology.
  
• GEO 682 - Remote Sensing for Environmental Applications and Research

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Principles and environmental applications of remote sensing, emphasizing research. Uses and limitations of remotely-sensed data; typical image processing operations and analyses; laboratory exercises and individualized advanced work and term project.
  
• GEO 683 - Geographic Information Systems

  3-4 credit(s) Every semester

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  Double Numbered with: GEO 383
  Basic concepts in spatial data handling. Algorithms and data structures for Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Demonstration of power, potential, and limitations of GIS. Graduate students register for three credits. Undergraduate students register for four credits with required laboratory work.
  
• GEO 685 - Community Geography

  3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5

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  Double Numbered with: GEO 485
  Introduces community-based and participatory research methods and participatory GIS, including origins, ethics and challenges. Examines how and why grassroots organizations use GIS and geospatial technologies. Students conduct local research projects. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
• GEO 686 - Quantitative Geographic Analysis

  3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5

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  Double Numbered with: GEO 386
  Descriptive and inferential statistics for use geo-referenced data, spatial autocorrelation, and geostatistics. Geographic examples. Weekly labs. Individualized advanced work and term project.
  
• GEO 687 - Environmental Geostatistics

  3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5

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  Crosslisted with: CIE 687 
  Statistical analysis of spatial patterns in environmental data. Exploratory data analysis; estimation, modeling, and interpretation of variograms; prediction using driging. Applications in engineering, geography, earth science and ecology. Use of geostatistical software.
  
• GEO 688 - Geographic Information and Society

  3 credit(s)

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  Double Numbered with: GEO 388
  Effects of geographic information technologies on governments, communities, and individuals. Mapping as an information industry, a political process, a surveillance technology, and a communication medium. Copyright, access, hazard management, national defense, public participation, and privacy.
  
• GEO 705 - Theories of Development

  3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5

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  Crosslisted with: SOS 705 
  Review of theories of development, economic growth, and social change. Comparison of explanatory power and limits of each theory. Review of prospects for synthesis and implications for empirical research in geography and other social sciences.
  
• GEO 720 - Seminar: Latin America

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Research seminar on contemporary problems in human and regional geography, emphasizing development and socio-economic issues.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 730 - Political Economy of Nature

  3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8

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  Explores the complex relationships between capitalism and the natural environment. It covers both classical and contemporary debates within political economy and geography.
  
• GEO 750 - Seminar: Physical Geography

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Advanced work in climatology, land forms, and other aspects of physical geography.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 754 - Seminar in Environmental History

  3 credit(s)

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  Origins of field, key debates, research methods relating to the historical geography of humans and the environment.
  
• GEO 755 - Seminar in Political Ecology

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Conceptual origins, theoretical influences, and current debates in political-economic and cultural aspects of nature-society relations. Topics include environmental social movements, theories of nature, environmental justice, environmental conflicts, gender and environment.
  
• GEO 757 - Environmental Sediment Mechanics

  3 credit(s)

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  Physical processes of sediment transport in the environment including fluid behavior, sediment properties, roughness of bed forms, resistance to flow, initiation of particle motion, bed-load transport, and relevant practical issues.
  
• GEO 764 - Gender and Globalization

  3 credit(s)

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  Crosslisted with: ANT 764 , WGS 764 
  The impact of the increasing hypermobility of capital and culture flows across borders on gender relations.
  
• GEO 772 - Seminar: Cultural Geography

  3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8

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  Examination of major currents in western cultural theory from the industrial revolution to the present, their development and transformation in light of advances in spatial theory.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 773 - Seminar in Economic Geography

  3 credit(s)

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  Examination of contemporary debates in economic geography including the impact of the cultural and institutional turn. Also examines economic geography perspectives on globalization, labor, innovation, and restructuring. Permission of instructor.
  
• GEO 774 - Seminar: Historical Geography

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Research seminar on current historiographic issues and archival methodologies in historical geography.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 781 - Seminar: Cartography

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Research seminar devoted to topics of current interest in geospatial technology, cartographic communication, and the history of cartography in the twentieth-century.
  
• GEO 815 - Seminar in Urban Geography

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Research seminar on theoretical and empirical issues in urban geography.
  
• GEO 870 - Seminar on Population Geography

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Specialized research topics dealing with the application of demographic measurements to geographic problems.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 876 - Feminist Geography

  3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8

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  Crosslisted with: WGS 876 
  The relationships between gender, space, and place. Topics include the gendered spaces of everyday life, identity and spatial metaphor, geographies of the body and the border, human migration, gender and the city.
  
• GEO 970 - Experience Credit

  1-6 credit(s) Every semester

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  Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing. Permission, in advance, of assigned instructor, department chair, or dean.
  Repeatable
  
• GEO 997 - Master’s Thesis

  1-6 credit(s) Every semester

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  Repeatable
  
• GEO 999 - Doctoral Dissertation

  1-15 credit(s) Every semester

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  Repeatable
  

History

• HST 500 - Selected Topics

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 510 - Studies in African American History

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Crosslisted with: AAS 510 
  Particular periods or aspects of African American history.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 600 - Selected Topics

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 615 - Graduate Preparation

  3 credit(s) Every semester

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  Sections offered corresponding to the major areas of history so graduate students may prepare for more advanced graduate study.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 622 - Empire

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Seminar on classic texts about empire from Thucydides to The Federalist. Studied from 432 B.C. to the present.
  
• HST 625 - The European Union

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Crosslisted with: SOS 625 
  Interdisciplinary introduction to history, politics, and economics of the European community.
  
• HST 634 - Underground Railroad

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Crosslisted with: AAS 634 , ANT 694 
  Double Numbered with: HST 434
  Myth and history of the Underground in the context of African American freedom efforts. Emphasis on events, personalities, and sites in upstate New York. Student field research and exploration of archival and Internet resources. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
• HST 635 - European Perspectives on Contemporary War and Conflict

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Crosslisted with: PAI 635 
  Seminars conducted at the Syracuse University campus with a week in London to examine the evolution of armed interventions. Meetings with scholars and practitioners in London will bring European perspectives to contemporary conflicts.
  
• HST 644 - Israel and Palestine: Historical Approaches

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Crosslisted with: MES 644 
  A thorough historical grounding for understanding contemporary Israel and Palestine in terms of changing social, economic, cultural and political contexts.
  
• HST 645 - History of International Relations

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Crosslisted with: PAI 645 
  Provide professional masters-level students with a solid grounding in the history of international relations around a common theme of states and empires throughout various important time periods.
  
• HST 682 - Foundations of American Political Thought

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Crosslisted with: PSC 716 , SOS 716 
  American political thought to about 1820. Puritans, American Revolution, establishment of the Constitution, and thought of Hamilton and Jefferson.
  
• HST 689 - Race and Law

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Race and law in American history, 1600-1960, the historical experience of African-Americans, the indigenous peoples, and Asian-Americans.
  
• HST 690 - Independent Study

  1-6 credit(s)

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  Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 693 - Oral History Workshop

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Crosslisted with: DFH 693 
  Examines the practice of oral history from methodological and theoretical levels, the differences between individual and collective memories, and its application to analysis of events, ethical dimensions, and technological tools.
  
• HST 695 - Historical Narratives and Interpretation

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Crosslisted with: DFH 695 
  Comparison and exploration of the documentary and the written word as alternative formats for presenting history. Documentaries and historical writings are examined and discussed using case studies.
  
• HST 700 - Selected Topics

  1-3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 715 - Readings and Research in American History

  3 credit(s) Every semester

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  Repeatable
  
• HST 725 - Readings and Research in Latin American History

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Secondary readings in Latin American history.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 735 - Readings and Research in European History

  3 credit(s) Every semester

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  Repeatable
  
• HST 738 - American Legal History: Modern Public Law

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  A history of American constitutional law from reconstruction to c. 1960.
  
• HST 755 - Readings and Research in Eastern European History

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Secondary literature in Eastern European history.
  
• HST 765 - Readings and Research in African History

  3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest

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  Crosslisted with: AAS 765 
  
• HST 775 - Readings and Research in South Asian History

  3 credit(s) Every semester

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  Crosslisted with: SAS 775 
  Graduate seminar introducing main debates in the historiography of late medieval and modern South Asia.
  
• HST 800 - Selected Topics

  1-3 credit(s)

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  Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
  Repeatable
  
• HST 801 - Historiography

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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• HST 802 - Modes of Analysis in History

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  The colloquium will discuss a large variety of articles and monographs in European and American history.
  
• HST 803 - Theories and Philosophies of History

  3 credit(s) Irregularly

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  History of historical thought and practice in the development of modern historical method.
  
• HST 804 - First-Year Graduate Research Seminar

  3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring

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  Seminar geared to particular research interests of first-year students.
  
• HST 805 - Seminar in American History

  3 credit(s) Every semester

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