MEMS Course List Winter 2011
This course listing is meant to be as comprehensive as possible. If, however, you are interested in a course that is not on this listing, and think it is applicable to
your MEMS concentration, please feel free to speak with Professor George Hoffmann, MEMS faculty advisor. To make an appointment, please call 763-2066, or
email georgeh@umich.edu.
Department and Program Abbreviations
AAPTIS: Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish and Islamic Studies
ACABS: Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies
AMCULT: American Culture
ANTHRCUL: Cultural Anthropology
ASIAN/ASIANLAN: Asian Studies/Asian Languages
CAAS: Center for Afro-American and African Studies
CLARCH: Classical Architecture
CLCIV: Classical Civilizations
COMPLIT: Comparative Literature
GTBOOKS: Great Books
HISTART: History of Art
HJCS: Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies
JUDAIC: Judaic Studies
LHSP: Lloyd Hall Scholars Program
LING: Linguistics
MENAS: Middle Eastern and North African Studies
MUSICOL: Musicology
PHIL: Philosophy
POLSCI: Political Science
RCHUMS: Residential College Humanities
SCAND: Scandinavian Studies
SI: School of Information
THTREMUS: Theatre and Drama
WOMENSTD: Women’s Studies
Departments &
Course Numbers
AAPTIS 262
AAPTIS 488
Instructors &
Email
Alexander Knysh [alknysh]
Legassick [tleg]
ACABS 204
Ellen Muehlberger
[emuehlbe]
Yaron Eliav [yzeliav]
Introduction to Christianity
Joyce Marcus [joymar]
Kent Flannery [kflanner]
Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations
ACABS 270
ANTHRARC 284
ASIAN 200
ASIAN 220
ASIAN 221
ASIAN 248
ASIAN 249
ASIAN / HISTART / PHIL /
RCHMS 265
ASIAN 365
ASIAN 380.003
ASIAN 450
Arvind Mandair [amandair]
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Deidre de la Cruz [ddelac]
Ryu [rjryu]
Shuen-fu Lin [lsf] et al
Miranda Brown [mdbrown]
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Hitomi Tonomura [tomitono]
Title
Introduction to Islam
Historical Arab Literature
Rabbinical Literature
Introduction to Japanese Civilization
Introduction to Asian Religions
Great Books of Japan
Jesus Comes to Asia
Introduction to Korean Civilization
The Arts and Letters of China
Premodern Chinese Science
Popular Culture of Edo Japan
Japan to 1700
Departments &
Course Numbers
ENGLISH 308
ENGLISH 314
ENGLISH 315.001
ENGLISH 351
ENGLISH 366
ENGLISH 368
ENGLISH 398.002
ENGLISH 398.004
ENGLISH 407
ENGLISH 410
ENGLISH 449
ENGLISH 450.001
ENGLISH 450.002
ENGLISH 451.001
ENGLISH 451.002
ENGLISH 465
ENGLISH 470
ENGLISH 503
Instructors &
Email
Anne Curzan [acurzan]
Valerie Traub [vtraub]
Gina Brandolino [gmbrand]
Sean Silver [srsilver]
Steven Mullaney [mullaney]
Linda Gregerson [gregerso]
Theresa Tinkle [tinkle]
Linda Gregerson [gregerso]
Karla Taylor [kttaylor]
Thomas Toon [ttoon]
Theresa Tinkle [tinkle]
Doug Trevor [trevor]
Gina Brandolino [gmbrand]
Sean Silver [srsilver]
Marjorie Levinson [cecily]
Karla Taylor [kttaylor]
Lindsay Dicuirci [ldicuici]
Thomas Toon [ttoon]
Title
FRENCH 343 / HISTORY 323
FRENCH 366
FRENCH 274
Dena Goodman [goodmand]
Peggy McCracken [peggymc]
George Hoffmann [georgeh]
The French Enlightenment
Introduction to Medieval Literature
France and the New World
GTBOOKS 222
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Great Books of Japan
HISTART 260
HISTART / ASIAN / PHIL /
RCHMS 265
HISTART 342 / RCHUMS 344
HISTART 369
HISTART 393.002
Pat Simons [patsimon]
Shuen-fu Lin [lsf] et al
17th C European Painting and Sculpture
The Arts and Letters of China
Passion and Reason in the 18th Century
Art, Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire
Hieronymus Bosch
HISTART 394.001
HISTART 394.002
HISTART 394.004
HISTART 411
Thomas Willette [Willette]
Susan Siegfried [siegfrie]
Achim Timmermann
[achimtimm]
Thomas Willette [Willette]
Megan Holmes [holmesml]
Heather Ecker []
Martin Powers [mpow]
HISTORY 195
HISTORY 197.002
HISTORY 197.003
HISTORY 205
Susanna Linsley []
Carol Karlson [ckarlson]
Michael MacDonald
Victor Leiberman [urasia]
Religious Tolerance in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The Salem Witchcraft Story
Witchcraft in Early Modern England
Southeast Asian Civilization
History of the English Language
Renaissance Sex
Representations of Women in Medieval Literature
English Literature 1660-1830
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Shakespeare II
Love and Desire in Medieval Literature
Elizabethan Culture and The Faerie Queene
Arthurian Literature
Middle English
Sex and Religion in Medieval Drama
17th Century Devotional Poetry
Medieval Popular Piety
Lit 1600-1830: Love, Marriage and the Rise of the Novel
Lit 1600-1830: Persons and Things in 18th Century British Literature
Chaucer
Literature of Captivity in Early and Colonial America
Middle English
Art and Philosophy
The Miraculous and the Diabolical
Mediterranean Trade and Exchange, 1200-1550
Interpreting Landscape
Departments &
Course Numbers
HISTORY 211 / MEMS 211
HISTORY 212
HISTORY 248
HISTORY 260
HISTORY 264
HISTOYR 268
HISTORY 300
HISTORY 302.003
HISTORY 323 / FRENCH 343
HISTORY 339
HISTORY 352
HISTORY 367
HISTORY 370
HISTORY 375
HISTORY 396.001
HISTORY 396.002
HISTORY 396.003
HISTORY 450
HISTORY 461
Instructors &
Email
Paolo Squatriti [pasqua]
Diane Hughes [dohughes]
Deidre de la Cruz [ddelac]
Maris Vinovskis [vinovski]
David Hancock [hancockd]
John Fine [jvafine]
Rudi Lindner [rpl]
Rachel Neis [rneis]
Dena Goodman [goodmand]
Miranda Brown [mdbrown]
C. S. Chang [cschang]
Michael Witgen [witgen]
Carol Karlsen [ckarlsen]
Valerie Kivelson [vkivelso]
Ellen Poteet [poteet]
C.S. Chang [cschang]
David Hancock [hancockd]
Hitomi Tonomura [tomitono]
Julius Scott [jsscott]
Title
The Later Middle Ages
Renaissance Europe
Jesus Comes to Asia
The US to 1865
Exploring America
Eastern Christianity
History of Cosmology
Jewish Vision and Visual Culture - Ancient to Contemporary
The French Enlightenment
Premodern Chinese Science
Imperial China
American Indian History
American Women to 1870
The History of Witchcraft
Leo Africanus
Ideas and Empires in China
The World of the Ship
ITALIAN 333
Alison Cornish [acorn]
Dante’s Divine Comedy
JUDAIC 270
JUDAIC 317.003
JUDAIC 417
Yaron Eliav [yzeliav]
Rachel Neis [rneis]
Ryan Spziech [spziech]
Rabbinic Literature
Jewish Vision and Visual Culture - Ancient to Contemporary
Literature of the Sephardic Jews, 900-1600
LATIN 301
Donka Markus [markusdd]
Popular Latin
MEMS / HISTORY 211
MEMS / HISTORY 212
MEMS / ITALIAN 333
MEMS / ENGLISH 367
MEMS 441 / LATIN 436
MEMS / ENGLISH 465
MEMS 898
Paolo Squatriti [pasqua]
Diane Hughes [dohuges]
Alison Cornish [acorn]
Douglas Trevor [trevor]
Donka Markus [markusdd]
Karla Taylor [kttaylor]
George Hoffmann [georgeh]
The Later Middle Ages
Renaissance Europe
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Shakespeare’s Principal Plays
Popular Latin
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Dissertation Colloquium
MUS 405 / SPANISH 488
PHIL / ASIAN / HISTART /
RCHMS 265
PHIL 389
PHIL 464
Louise Stein [lkstein]
Shuen-fu Lin [lsf] et al
Music and Theater in the 17th-Century Hispanic World (in Spanish)
The Arts and Letters of China
Louis Loeb [lloeb]
Tad Schmaltz [tschmalt]
Early Modern Philosophy
The Scientific Revolution
POLISCI 301
Arlene Saxonhouse
[awsaxon]
Political Thought to the Modern Era
Japan to 1700
The American Revolution
Departments &
Course Numbers
Instructors &
Email
Title
RCHMS 251
RCHMS / ASIAN / HISTART /
PHIL 265
RCHUMS 344 / HISTART 342
RCHUMS 386
Alison DeSimone [alisonde]
Shuen-fu Lin [lsf] et al
Death and Desire: Opera in Performance, 1589-1759
The Arts and Letters of China
Thomas Willette [Willette]
Martin Walsh [narenlob]
Passion and Reason in the 18th Century
The Chester Cycle Noah Play
SCANDANAVIAN 442
Maria Gull [mgull]
Icelandic Saga
SPANISH 450 / JUDAIC 417
SPANISH 456
Ryan Spziech [spziech]
Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
[enriqueg]
Louise Stein [lkstein]
Literature of the Sephardic Jews, 900-1600
Golden Age Spain: Rethinking the Classics (in Spanish)
Dena Goodman [goodmand]
Carol Karlsen [ckarlsen]
Valerie Kivelson [vkivelso]
Representing Marie Antoinette
American Women to 1870
The History of Witchcraft
SPANISH 488 / MUS 405
axter
WOMENSTD 150.001
WOMENSTD / HIST 370
WOMENSTD / HIST 375
Music and Theater in the 17th-Century Hispanic World (in Spanish)