Audio recordings and transcriptions of lectures given by Karl Wolfgang Deutsch at the University of Michigan compiled by Alan J. Levy
Overview
Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912-1992), a social and political scientist, was the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. His work focused on the study of war and peace, nationalism, international co-operation, and communication. The audio recordings, transcriptions of lectures, syllabi, and bibliographies, in this collection document Karl W. Deutsch's classes taught at the University of Michigan as the visiting Walgreen Professor of Human Understanding in 1977. Alan J. Levy served as a teaching assistant in Deutsch's classes at the University of Michigan.
Dates
- Creation: 1977
Researcher Access
Open for research.
Researcher Use
Audio recordings are closed due to fragility and require reformatting. Use restrictions are noted at the folder level.
Extent
.37 cubic feet (1 document box, 1 flat box)The audiocassettes, transcriptions of lectures, syllabi, and bibliographies, in this collection document Karl W. Deutsch's classes at the University of Michigan during the spring term of 1977. Included are lectures for the undergraduate course Political Science 489, The Political Development of the World, 1910-2010, and the graduate course, Political Science 600, Problems of the Cumulative Growth of Political Knowledge, 1945-1975. Alan J. Levy served as a teaching assistant in the classes taught by Karl W. Deutsch at the University of Michigan in 1977. Levy kept these lecture transcriptions and recordings and gave them to the Harvard University Archives in October 2014.
Biographical note on Karl Wolfgang Deutsch
Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912-1992), a social and political scientist, was the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. His work focused on the study of war and peace, nationalism, international co-operation, and communication. Deutsch introduced quantitative methods and formal system analysis and model-thinking into the field of social and political sciences. Deutsch was the Visiting Walgreen Professor of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan in 1977. He delivered a series of lectures titled The Political Development of the World, 1910 to 2010. He also participated in a seminar for graduate students on political science methods, focusing on problems related to political knowledge's accumulative growth. Deutsch taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1942 to 1858. He then held a position at Yale University from 1958 to 1967 and was a Professor of Government at Harvard University from 1967 to 1971, when he was named Stanfield Professor of International Peace. He retired in 1985.
Biographical note on Alan J. Levy
Alan J. Levy served as a teaching assistant in the classes taught by Karl W. Deutsch at the University of Michigan in 1977.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into two series:
- Political Science 489, The Political Development of the World, 1910-2020, 1977
- Political Science 600, Problems of the Cumulative Growth of Political Knowledge, 1945-1975, 1977
Acquisition Information
Gift of Alan J. Levy, 2014 December 8; Accession 19663.
Inventory update
This document last updated 2022 April 22.
Processing Information
This finding aid was created in February 2021 by Dominic P. Grandinetti.
Information for this finding aid was assembled from legacy paper inventories, reference sources, and container management data. The collection was not re-examined.
Dates and titles supplied by the archivist appear in brackets.
Alma ID
99155271300203941
- Title
- Levy, Alan J. Audio recordings and transcriptions of lectures given by Karl Wolfgang Deutsch at the University of Michigan compiled by Alan J. Levy, 1977: an inventory
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hua13021
Repository Details
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