HIST 521

Fall 2014 All Classes

All Classes

Seminar in Chinese History

Credit: 4 hours.

Research seminar in Chinese history designed to provide training to graduate students in research skills with an emphasis on the use of source materials in Chinese language.

Same as EALC 522. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Proficiency in written Classical or Modern Chinese, EALC 500 for EALC graduate students, and HIST 520 for History graduate students, or the consent of instructor.

My Favorites

My Schedule

Section Status updates every 10 minutes.

HIST 521 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46554	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Chow, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Info: Description: This course introduces students to important bibliographical and scholarly methods and tools for the study of traditional Chinese history, using Chinese documents. A major objective of this course is to help student produce a substantial research paper to be expanded into a larger research project, using Chinese sources. Even though this course focuses on historical research, it is designed to introduce research tools for students studying literature, religion, and other disciplines within the field of Chinese studies. The particular interests of individual student's research will be integrated into the course as students are required to select documents related to their project for class discussion and presentation. Various genres of Chinese documents will be studied to show their limitations and "biases." How different types of information are organized and classified. Students will learn where to look for information and how to use Chinese documents with knowledge of "biases" and "perspectives" of specific types of documents. Documents to be examined in class include conventional and modern bibliographies, biographical essays, genealogies, local gazetteers, official documents, official and private historical works, literary collections, poetry and prose anthologies, as well as archival materials. Other types of materials, e.g., painting, calligraphy, stele inscriptions, may be included if students' projects call for use of such materials. Textual, electronic, and internet resources and reference tools will be introduced and. Participation in discussion is required and students are responsible for presentations of readings and research proposals. There will be written assignments. Students are required to produce a 25 page research paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.