Syllabuses for Recent Courses

For a good decade now I have been posting my syllabuses online rather than handing out paper copies. Below you can find links to those syllabuses, arranged by course.

Please note that the listing below is not complete.

Courses for the Coming Year (2010-2011)

Fall 2010

• History 115: -- TTh 10.50-12.05 pm
• History 349: Writing the American Desert -- TTh 1.30-2.45 pm

Spring 2011

• History 116: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic -- TTh 10.50-12.05 pm
• History 374: The Age of Alexander the Great -- TTh 1.30-2.45 pm

Courses for the Current Year (2009-2010)

Spring 2010

• History 334: "Provinces of the Roman Empire" -- TTh 10.50-12.05
• History 451-36: "Economy of the Greek and Roman World" -- TTh 1.30-2.45

Courses Taught Regularly or Occasionally in the Past 10 Years or So

History 111: Foundations of Greek and Roman History. This course is retired and will not be taught again.

• Fall 2005
• Fall 2004
• Spring 2003
• Fall 2000

History 115

• Fall 2010
• Fall 2009
• Fall 2006

History 116

• Spring 2011
• Spring 2009
• Spring 2008

• Spring 2001

History 211: History of the Desert

• Fall 2006
• Fall 2004

History 225: Origin and Development of the Greek Polis

• Spring 2000

History 299: What Is History? (Also known as "History and Historical Methods")

• Spring 2009
• Fall 2007

History 333: The Roman Republic. This course is retired and will not be taught again.

• Fall 1995 

History 334: Provinces of the Roman Empire

• Spring 2010
• Spring 2007
• Spring 2003

History 374: The Age of Alexander the Great

• Spring 2011
• Spring 2006
• Spring 2000

History 391: Jews in the Mediterranean and Near east from Nebuchadnezzar to Muhammad.

• Fall 1999

Senior/Junior Seminars (400-level courses)

• History 451-36: "Economy of the Greek and Roman World" -- Spring 2010
• History 498-01: "Thesis Seminar": Fall 2005
• History 801-03: Beyond Athens and Rome: Small Towns and Country Life in Ancient Greece and Italy. Fall 1998.
 

First Year Seminars (FYS)

    Various FYS

• Educating Women in the Greek and Roman World -- Fall 2009
• Women, Men, Gods, Goddesses. Religious Diversity and Conflict in the Roman Empire -- Fall 2006
• First Year Seminar: Orientalism, Or How the West Has Views the East

    Guided Studies 219. I used to teach this course on rotation for the Classics Department, but that arrangement passed on some years ago. I do not expect to be teaching this courses again.

• Fall 1998

Colloquia and College Courses

• The Sonoran Desert. Spring 2005
• First-Year Colloquium -- Orientalism Follow-on=. Spring 1997
• First-Year Colloquium: Daria. Spring 1999.
• First-Year Colloquium: Connecticut Woods. Spring 2001.

Graduate Courses

The graduate program in History was terminated in the 2008-2009 academic year. I occasionally taught the graduate historiography course, and sometimes my undergraduate senior seminars were crossed-listed in the graduate program. None of the courses below will be taught again.

• History 800: Historiography, the graduate historiography course. For information on graduate study in history at Trinity College, click here. Last taught: Spring 1999. Next taught: Fall 2000.
• History 800. Graduate Historiography. Spring 2003 Syllabus.