MEMS Course List Winter 2012
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 / REL 204 / HISTORY
230.010
AAPTIS 465 / REL 465
AAPTIS 488
AAPTIS 491 / HISTORY 449
Instructors &
Email
Alexander Knysh [alknysh]
Alexander Knysh [alknysh]
Trevor Legassic [tleg]
Gottfried Hagen [ghagen] and
Rudi Lindner [rpl]
Islamic Mysticism
History of Arabic Literature
Three Imperial Capitals: Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul
ACABS 326
Yaron Eliav [yzeliav]
Jews in Rome and Byzantium
ANTHRARC 284
Joyce Marcus [joymar]
Kent Flannery [kflanner]
Aztec, Maya, and Inca Civilizations
ASIAN 200
ASIAN 207
ASIAN 220
ASIAN 225
Micah Auerback [auerback]
Victor Lieberman [Eurasia]
Varuni Bhatia [varunib]
Madhav Deshpande
[deshpan]
Christian de Pee [cdepee]
Deidre de la Cruz [ddelac]
Ryu [rjryu]
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Introduction to Japanese Civilization
Introduction to Southeast Asian Civilization
Introduction to Asian Religions
Introduction to Hinduism
ASIAN 241
ASIAN 248
ASIAN 249
ASIAN 252
Title
Introduction to Islam
The Chinese Renaissance
Jesus Comes to Asia
Introduction to Korean Civilization
Japan’s Encounter with the West
Departments &
Course Numbers
ASIAN / HISTART / PHIL /
RCHMS 265
ASIAN 365
ASIAN 480.002
Instructors &
Email
David Rolston [drolston]
Title
The Arts and Letters of China
Premodern Chinese Science
A Critical History of Reading and Writing in East Asia
ASIANLAN 409
Miranda Brown [mdbrown]
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Qiuli Zhao [qiuliz]
ENGLISH 366
ENGLISH 368
ENGLISH 398.002
ENGLISH 398.004
ENGLISH 449
ENGLISH 450.001
ENGLISH 450.002
ENGLISH 451.001
ENGLISH 451.002
ENGLISH 464
ENGLISH 470
ENGLISH 505
ENGLISH 561
ENGLISH 630
Douglas Trevor [trevor]
Steven Mullaney [mullaney]
Karla Taylor [kttaylor]
Steven Mullaney [mullaney]
Theresa Tinkle [tinkle]
Laura S. Miles [lsmiles]
Gina Brandolino [gmbrand]
Christina Lupton [clupton]
Marjorie Levinson [cecily]
Enoch Brater [enochb]
Susan Parrish [sparrish]
Anne Curzan [acurzan]
Susan Parrish [sparrish]
Alisse Portnoy [alisse]
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Shakespeare II
New English Literature in the Age of Chaucer
Reading Mary Wroth’s Urania
Sex and Religion in Medieval Drama
Visions and Madness
Writing Revolution
Lit 1600-1830: Love, Marriage and the Rise of the Novel
Lit 1600-1830: The Work of Seeing
The Hamlet Semester
Travels and Travails in the New World
The History of English: Language Ideology and Language History
American Literature to 1830
Western Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
FRENCH 366
FRENCH 367
Literary Chinese I
Medieval Literature
Early Modern Literature
GTBOOKS 212
GERMAN 378
Catherine Brown [mcbrown]
Vanessa Agnew [vagnew]
Great Books in World Literature: Don Quixote
History of German Science
HISTART 250
HISTART 260
HISTART / ASIAN / PHIL /
RCHMS 265
HISTART 342 / RCHUMS 344
HISTART/MEMS 348
HISTART 351
HISTART 393.001
HISTART 393.002
Megan Holmes [holmesml]
Pat Simons [patsimon]
David Rolston [drolston]
Italian Renaissance Art
17th C European Painting and Sculpture
The Arts and Letters of China
Thomas Willette [Willette]
Elizabeth Sears [esears]
Thomas Willette [Willette]
Celeste Brusati [Brusati]
Achim Timmermann
[achimtim]
Reason and Passion in the 18th Century
The Medieval Book
Michelangelo
Vermeer and the Art of Seeing
Hieronymus Bosch
HISTORY 197.001
HISTORY 197.002
HISTORY 197.003
HISTORY 203
Katherine French [frenchk]
Lydia Barnett [lrbarn]
Paolo Squatriti [pasqua]
Micah Auerback [auerback]
Robin Hood: History and Fiction
New Worlds: Travel, Science and Empire in the Age of Discovery
The Beast Within: People and Animals in Preindustrial Europe
Intro to Japanese Civilization
Departments &
Course Numbers
HISTORY 207
HISTORY 211 / MEMS 211
HISTORY 212
HISTORY 230.010 / AAPTIS 262 /
REL 204
HISTORY 248
HISTORY 260
HISTORY 251
HISTORY 300
HISTORY 316
HISTORY 328.002 / JUDAIC
318.002
HISTORY 328.006 / JUDAIC
318.001
HISTORY 339
HISTORY 352
HISTORY 396.004
HISTORY 397.003
Instructors &
Email
Victor Leiberman [urasia]
Hussein Fancy [Fancy]
Diane Hughes [dohughes]
Alexander Knysh [alknysh]
Southeast Asian Civilization
The Later Middle Ages
Renaissance Europe
Introduction to Islam
Deidre de la Cruz [ddelac]
Maris Vinovskis [vinovski]
Christian de Pee [cdepee]
Rudi Lindner [rpl]
Katherine French [frenchk]
Rachel Neis [rneis]
Jesus Comes to Asia
The US to 1865
The Chinese Renaissance
History of Cosmology
Women and Gender in the Middle Ages
Ancient Judaism: Law, Religion, History
Rachel Neis [rneis]
Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos
Premodern Chinese Science
Imperial China
The Age of Atlantic Revolutions
HISTORY 461
HISTORY 472
Miranda Brown [mdbrown]
Chun-shu Chang [cschang]
David Hancock [hancockd]
Michael MacDonald
[mmacdonald]
John Fine [jvfine]
Rudi Lindner [rpl] and
Gottfried Hagen [ghagen]
David Hancock [hancockd]
Chun-shu Chang [cschang]
HISTORY 481.001
Paolo Squatriti [pasqua]
Intellectuals and the State in 20th-Century China: The Rise of the Chinese Empire in a New
World
Rome After Empire
ITALIAN 333 / 533 //MEMS 333
ITALIAN 486
Alison Cornish [acorn]
Karla Mallete [alrak]
Dante
Petrach
JUDAIC 318.001/ HISOTRY
328.006
JUDAIC 318.002 / HISTORY
328.002
JUDAIC 326
Rachel Neis [rneis]
Jewish Visual Culture: From Ancient Mosaics to Jew-Hop Videos
Rachel Neis [rneis]
Ancient Judaism: Law, Religion, History
Yaron Eliav [yzeliav]
Jews in Rome and Byzantium
LATIN 435
Donka Markus [markusdd]
Post-Classical Latin
MEMS / HISTORY 211
MEMS / HISTORY 212
MEMS / HISTART 250
MEMS/ RCHUMS 314
Paolo Squatriti [pasqua]
Diane Hughes [dohuges]
Megan Holmes [holmesml]
Cynthia Sowers [cindysrs]
The Later Middle Ages
Renaissance Europe
Italian Renaissance Art
The Figure of Rome in Shakespeare and 16th Century Painting
HISTORY 409
HISTORY 449 / AAPTIS 491
Title
The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age
Byzantine, 867-1453
Three Imperial Capitals: Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul
The American Revolution
Departments &
Course Numbers
MEMS / ITALIAN 333
MEMS / HISTART 348
MEMS / ENGLISH 366
MEMS / ENGLISH 368
MEMS 440 / LATIN 435
MEMS 898
Instructors &
Email
Alison Cornish [acorn]
Elizabeth Sears [esears]
Douglas Trevor [trevor]
Steven Mullaney [Mullaney]
Donka Markus [markusdd]
George Hoffmann [georgeh]
Dante’s Divine Comedy
The Medieval Book
Shakespeare’s Contemporaries: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Shakespeare II
Post-Classical Latin
Dissertation Colloquium
MUSICOL 40? / 50?
MUSICOL 407 / 507
MUSICOL 421
MUSICOL 643
Louise Stein [lkstein]
Stefano Mengozzi [mengozzi]
Steven Whiting
Louise Stein [lkstein]
Music of the Baroque: Early Modern Singers, Arias, Productions: Collaboration c. 1700
Instrumental Music of the Renaissance
Music of the Classical Era
Early Modern Singers, Arias, Productions: Collaboration c. 1700
PHIL / ASIAN / HISTART /
RCHMS 265
PHIL 389
PHIL 460
David Rolston [drolston]
The Arts and Letters of China
Tad Schmaltz [tschmalt]
Tad Schmaltz [tschmalt]
Philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Medieval Philosophy
POLISH 325
Benjamin Paloff [Paloff]
Polish Literature in English to 1890
RCHUMS / ASIAN / HISTART /
PHIL 265
RCHUMS / MEMS 314
RCHUMS 344 / HISTART 342
David Rolston [drolston]
The Arts and Letters of China
Cynthia Sowers [cindysrs]
Thomas Willette [Willette]
The Figure of Rome in Shakespeare and 16th Century Painting
Reason and Passion in the 18th Century
SCANDANAVIAN 442
Maria Gull [mgull]
Icelandic Saga
SPANISH 373.003
SPANISH 450
SPANISH 459
Ryan Spziech [spziech]
Ryan Spziech [spziech]
Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
[enriqueg]
Daniel Nemser [dnemser]
Gustavo Verdesio [verdesio]
Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas
[enriqueg]
From India to Iberia: Eastern Tales and Western Texts in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
Don Quijote y la formación de la novela moderna (in Spanish)
SPANISH 470
SPANISH 472
SPANISH 488
axter
Title
Spanish Colonialism and Race
Pre-Columbian Society
Las Novelas ejemplares de Miguel de Cervantes (in Spanish)