2008-2009 UW Courses with Labor Content
Autumn Quarter 2008
At the UW Seattle Campus:| Course Number: | EnvH 111 |
| Title: | Exploring Environment and Health Connections |
| Department: | Environmental Health |
| Meeting Times: | Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 1:30-2:20 |
| Instructor: | Prof. Janice Camp |
| Description: | Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health. |
| Course Number: | HSTAA 205 |
| Title: | Asian American History |
| Department: | History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: | Tues, Thurs, Fri. |
| Instructor: | Prof. Moon-Ho Jung |
| Description: | Introductory history of Asian Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese and Koreans in the United States from the 1840s to the 1960s. Major themes include imperialism, labor migration, racism, community formation, and resistance. |
| Course Number: | HSTAA 540 |
| Title: | African American Urban History: 1700-2000 |
| Departments: | History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: | Mon. 1:30-3:20 |
| Instructor: | Prof. Quintard Taylor |
| Description: | This seminar will examine the growth and evolution of the African American urban communities from 1800 to the 21st Century. The seminar's goal is twofold: first, to introduce the historiography and methodology of black urban history; and second, to determine the manner in which the urban experience of African Americans shaped the contemporary world of black people in the United States and of all urbanites. |
| Course Number: | HIST 498 A |
| Title: | Colloquium in History: African American History in the American West |
| Department: | History |
| Meeting Times: | Wednesdays: 1:30-3:20 |
| Instructor: | Prof. Quintard Taylor |
| Description: | This undergraduate colloquium will critically examine the five centuries of African American history in the American West. Most of the course will examine readings that address the emerging historiography of the field as well as the most important texts that explore that history. The last weeks of the seminar will focus on the crafting of individual papers with sessions devoted to critiquing drafts. The goal of this seminar is twofold. First by critically examining major texts in the field we hope to significantly enhance each student’s knowledge of African American history in the region. Secondly, the research papers generated through the seminar should expand that knowledge base for future students of African American history in the West. |
| Course Number: | HIST 498 B |
| Title: | Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project |
| Department: | History |
| Meeting Times: | Tuesdays: 3:00 - 4:20 |
| Instructor: | Prof. James Gregory |
| Description: | Students in this class will participate in an historical research project that is documenting the history of struggles for racial and economic justice in the Seattle area. The civil rights movement in Seattle started well before the celebrated struggles in the South in the 1950s and the Seattle movement relied not just on African American activists, but also Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. It also depended upon the support of some elements of the region's labor movement. From the 1910s through the 1970s, labor and civil rights were linked in complicated ways, with some unions and radical organizations providing critical support to struggles for racial justice, while others blocked access to jobs and obstructed struggles for equal rights.
The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project is a multi-year research project based at the University of Washington. Please examine the website to learn more about the project: www.civilrights.washington.edu |
| Course Number: | HISTAA 235 B |
| Title: | The American People and Their Culture in the Modern Era. A History of the United States. |
| Department: | History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: | Tuesdays,Thursday,Fri |
| Instructor: | Prof. NIkhil Pal Singh |
| Description: | Through study of documents, personal testimony, and other source materials, through written reports on historical problems, and through discussions, lectures, films, and audiovisual presentations, students are encouraged to examine evidence and to think "historically" about persons, events, and movements within the memory of their own generation and that immediately preceding theirs. Primarily for first-year students. |
Winter Quarter 2009
Spring Quarter 2009
At the UW Seattle Campus:| Course Number: | HSTAA 353 |
| Title: | Class and Labor in American History |
| Department: | History of the Americas |
| Meeting Times: | TBA |
| Instructor: | Prof. James Gregory |
| Description: | This course explores the themes of work, class, and labor movements in American history from the Colonial Era to the present. The stages of American industrialization and class formation, changes in racial, ethnic, and gender relations and in the values of work, leisure, and consumerism are among the issues to be considered.
The course is also about the politics of labor and class. Attempts to organize working people into labor unions or political parties date back to the 1820s. We will explore the many faces of organized labor and American radicalism seeking to understand what is often said to be America's unique hostility to class-based ideologies and organizations. The course concludes with a consideration of contemporary patterns of social inequality and the current fate of organized labor. |