HIST 594

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Intro Historical Writing

Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar for first-year graduate students and is the second half of the introductory graduate sequence. Focuses on the process of writing an original piece of historical scholarship. Topics to be discussed include: developing an argument, exploring sources, arriving at a research strategy, planning and structuring an article, presenting complex data, and producing scholarship that is a coherent representation of an author's perspective on the past. Over the course of the semester, each seminar participant will develop and write an original, article length research paper. Students will work with the assistance of the instructors and an advisor from her or his own research field.

Prerequisite: HIST 593.

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HIST 594 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52242	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	317 Gregory Hall	McDuffie, E Avrutin, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Info: Description: Will help students produce an original contribution to historical scholarship while introducing them to disciplinary issues that concern historians no matter what their interest or level of achievement. This seminar for first-year History Department graduate students is the second half of the introductory graduate sequence and will focus on the process of writing an original piece of historical research. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.