Teacher Laempel from Max and Moritz (1865)

• GE 1 EW, "The Nazi Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film."
  • This 4-unit Freshman Seminar was part of a pilot offering in UCSB's General Education program, which was cancelled for lack of resources.
  • The program was replaced by 1-unit freshman seminars
    (see my Int 94AX description, below).
  • Winter 2003 GE 1 website
    
• Hist 2C, "World History, 1700CE-present."
  • Catalog description: "Survey of the peoples, cultures, and social, economic, and political systems that have characterized the world's major civilizations in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania."

  • World map, scaled by population

    Many students use this course to fulfill the General Education Area E/E1 "Civilizations and Thought" requirement.
  • The History 2 series is also one of three lower division survey series from which all history majors must complete two (the others are Hist 4: Western Civilization, and Hist 17: US History).
  • Hist 2c is also taught by Professors Bergstrom, Edgar, and Spickard.
  • I taught this course for the first time in Spring 2003, after having taught 4c (see next item) for many years.
  • my Fall 2010 2c website; Hist 500 syllabus (for TAs)
    
• Hist 4C, "Western Civilization, 1715-present." [I no longer offer this; see 2c]
  • This is part of one of the other history survey series courses, two of which are required of all history majors. It can also be used to fulfill the general education Area E1 requirement.
  • I taught this course for the last time in 2000. Now I teach Hist 2c, World History.
  • 1996 syllabus
  • spring 2000 website, 2000 syllabus
    
• Hist 33D, "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Holocaust."
  • An entry-level (no prerequisites) course I developed in Fall 2002 for students from all disciplines.
  • 2002 33d web site; 2002 33d syllabus
• 2003 33d web site; 2003 33d syllabus
• 2005 33d web site; 2005 33d syllabus
  
• Int 94: 
  • "Teaching the Holocaust beyond the 'Third Generation'" (2000)
  • "Representing Hitler and Nazism, 1925-2005" (2005)
• From the Freshman Seminar website: "UCSB has created an exciting new educational opportunity for members of the freshman class -- freshman seminars. These small group seminars, with a maximum of twenty students, will be taught by faculty who have volunteered their time and effort because they want to meet and teach students who are early in their UCSB careers. Facilitating student-faculty contact is one of the major goals of the freshman seminar."
• my Winter 2000 Int 94 syllabus; handouts week 2, wk 3, wk 4, wk 6
• Fall 2005; Spring 2007; Spring 2008; Spring 2009; course website
• Int 184hm
• Honors seminar Spring 2010, Spring 2011

Upper Division Courses on German and Holocaust History (back to top)

• 133A: 19th Century Germany
  • This course surveys the history of the German states from the French Revolution through the stages of industrialization and national unification to the eve of World War I.
  • 2006 133a course website


• 133B 20th Century Germany, pt. I (1900-1945)
  • This course examines German history from the beginning of the 20th century to World War II. Topics include: Germany's role in the First World War, the German Revolution of 1918-19, the Weimar Republic, and the National-Socialist state with its aims in World War II and the Holocaust.
  • I haven't taught this course since I began teaching 133D in 1996. It differs from 133D in that its emphasis is on German history, not Holocaust history, and it spends much more time on the early decades of the 20th century.
  • 1995 133b syllabus, 2009 course website.

    JFK, Brandt & Adenauer in Berlin, June 1963

    
    
• 133C, 20th Century Germany, pt. II (1945-present)
  • After examining developments during the last years of World War II, this course traces the histories of East and West Germany from 1945 to unification in 1990.
  • 1998 133c syllabus, 2000 133c syllabus
  • 2004 133c course web site, 2004 133c syllabus
  • 2006 133c course web site, 2006 133c syllabus
  • 2007 133c course website, 2007 133c syllabus
  • 2008 133c course website, 2008 133c syllabus
  • 2011 133c course website,


• 133D, The Holocaust in German History
  • "The Nazi campaign of racial purification through eugenics and mass murder can be considered one of the watershed events of Western civilization. This course examines the historical, social, political and economic factors which combined to result in the Holocaust, as well as some of its consequences for German and world history."
  • I haven't taught this course since I began developing 33d in 2003.
    I will probably teach it again in 2006-07.
  • 1998 133d syllabus, 1999 133d syllabus
  • 2001 133d course web site, 2001 syllabus
  • 2008 133d web site, 2008 syllabus
  • 2009 web site


• 133P,

  133p student presentations, June 2004

  Proseminar in German History
  • In this undergraduate seminar students learn research and writing skills and use them to explore topics in 20th century German history.
  • 1997 133p syllabus and paper topics,
  • 1999 133p syllabus and samples of work
  • 2002 course website and 2002 133p syllabus
    • this was the first time I had 2 meetings/week
    • 6 student papers published on my
      Oral History Project website
  • 2004 133p website with 2004 syllabus and student papers
  • 2009 133p website
  • 2011 133p website


• 133DR, Directed Readings on the History of the Holocaust (formerly 133Q)
  • "Each offering focuses

    The 8 books read in 133q in 2006

    on a specific subtheme, such as memoirs, concentration camps, education, or film. While reading up to one book per week, students write a 10-20 page review of the literature on a selected topic."
  • 1998 syllabus
  • Winter 1999 syllabus
  • Fall 1999 syllabus
  • Fall 2001 syllabus
  • Winter 2004 133q syllabus
  • Winter 2006 133q web site
  • Winter 2008 133q web site & 2008 syllabus
  • Winter 2010 133DR web site


• Comp Lit 186EE, "Holocausts over Time: Modern Genocides in History, Literature and Art"
  • co-taught with Prof. Derwin from the German/Comparative Literatures Department
  • This was a hybrid lecture-seminar style course. It helped me to prepare the interdisciplinary Hist 33d course I began teaching in 2002 (Hist 33d description, above).
  • Fall 2000 186ee website, 184ee syllabus (courtesy of the web archive)

Senior Honors and Graduate Courses (back to top)

• 194HA,B,C,

  Carl Spitzweg (Dachau artist): "Bookworm," 1850

  Senior Honors Seminar
  • This three-quarter course is the capstone of the history department's honors program. Honors candidates work closely with an individual faculty mentor on a chosen topic, while meeting regularly with their peers and a seminar director to discuss issues of research, interpretation and writing, and to critique each other's work.
  • This course is taught be various professors. I taught it in 1996-97, 1997-98, and Fall 1998-99.
  • Prof. Lansing taught it in 2004-05; in 2008 & 2009 Prof. Bernstein taught it. Dept. description with link to current instructor's homepage
  • In 2005-06 it was shortened to a 2-quarter course.
  • my 1998-99 senior thesis seminar syllabus
  • database of theses submitted 1981-1997
    
• Hist 199ra, Independent Research Seminar
  • Students work on various aspects of my UCSB Holocaust Oral History Project website (www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust), including bibliographic work, interviewing and transcribing, timeline completion, web site construction, and filmmaking.
  • Details can be found on Faculty Research Assistance Program website (see the linked directory for my entry [12/04: directory link broken]).
    
• 200E, Graduate reading seminar in modern German history
  • Note that my 200E is not the same course as the 200E introductory reading course for all Modern Europeanists. (archived Fall 1996 200E-survey syllabus by Prof. Mouré)
  • 1994 200e-Germany syllabus
  • 2002 200e-Germany syllabus
    
• 201E, Topics in German History (back to top)
  • Since I haven't yet had enough students specializing in German history, I've offered this content in conjunction with a 200e, and as an independent reading course only.
  • Topics I plan to offer include History and Memory, Public History, and History Education
  • 2007 201e website with syllabus, detailed bibliography and definitions page


• 217BC, Research Seminar in Public History (Public Resource Management)
  • 2007 course web site, syllabus
• 233AB, Research Seminar in German History
  • "A two-quarter (20 week) research seminar for graduate students interested in aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century German history. Students will learn and apply researching techniques, as well as writing, editing and presentation skills."
  • Completion of four such seminars is required of all UCSB history graduate students before they can enter candidacy
  • Spring-Fall 2003 233AB syllabus; 1995 syllabus
  • note: I may someday teach Hist 233H on Habermas, which was developed by Prof. Fogel


• BONUS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO MADE IT DOWN HERE!
  • UCSB offers two courses to prepare advanced graduate students for the job market and future teaching: Hist 209A-B, The Academic Profession of History.
    Catalog description:
    "This course provides students with the practical knowledge needed for obtaining an academic position, develops skills for effective teaching, and prepares students to deal with funding agencies, publishers, employers, and professional organizations."
  • job interview questions (archive copy), and advice for academic job seekers, from Mary Corbin Sies, University of Maryland
  • 2005 Chronicle of Higher Education column "What Small Colleges Really Want," by Carol Kolmerten
  • my Graduate Study in German History page has sections on Fellowships and Graduate Programs in German History
  • "The CV Doctor," Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 17, 1999 has good advice and examples of how to write a good CV