HIST 185 CM - Making History

This seminar is designed to allow history majors to engage with the craft of researching and writing history. These methods are approached within a thematic and geographic context, involving critical evaluation of evidence and careful written presentation of interpretations and conclusions. In order to experience history as a discipline, students will be trained to do research using primary sources such as government documents, personal memoirs, letters, newspapers, oral histories, novels, art, and visual images found in research libraries and archival collections. Students will be exposed to important historiographical and theoretical traditions within the fields of European, American, or Asian social, political, and cultural history. This course is required of all history majors and should be taken in the sophomore or junior year, although first semester seniors also may take it.

Offered: Every semester

Credit: 1

Course Number: HIST185 CM