HIST 498

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Research and Writing Seminar

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Credit: 3 hours.

Capstone course required of all majors. Students will make history by researching and writing a work of original scholarship. Several of these seminars are offered each term and each focuses on a special topic, thus allowing students with similar interests to work through the process of gathering, interpreting, and organizing historical evidence under the direction of an expert in the field. The topics on offer each semester will be listed in the Class Schedule and described in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: HIST 200 and junior standing, or consent of the Director of Undergraduate Studies; 15 hours in history or consent of instructor.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Advanced Composition

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HIST 498 class schedule data for fall 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34331	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	307 Gregory Hall	Smart, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section A. Topic: Slavery and Abolition in Africa and the Americas. Description: This course will study the history of slavery and the process of abolition in Africa and the Americas. We will spend considerable time studying the place of slavery in American (United States) history, but we will also explore the central place of systems of slavery in African, Caribbean, and Latin American societies. Like in the United States, slavery was central to how systems of labor and race were formed in these regions, and how they were structured long after these institutions of legalized bondage were abolished. This course is specific in its thematic focus, but geographically and temporally broad, and thus will be of interest to students of U.S., Caribbean and Latin American, African and European history, from the early-modern period up to the present. The course will be organized around discussions of weekly readings, and students will complete a research paper on a topic that falls within the broad outlines of slavery and abolition in Africa and the Americas. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
34333	Discussion/ Recitation	C	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	331 Gregory Hall	Davila, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section C. Topic: Slavery and Freedom in Latin America. Description: This course explores slavery and the struggle for freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean. We will trace the historical trajectory of peoples of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our seminar begins with a survey of documentary sources available for the historical study of slavery and explores two of the possible readings that can be made of such sources. The seminar will go on to examine the roots of slavery in Africa, the middle passage, and patterns of slave life and labor regimes in societies with slaves. We will critically analyze patterns of resistance and accommodation to slave regimes, as well as patterns of abolition and the formation of post-emancipation societies. This course is designed to develop your understanding of the major historiographical currents in the field. It is also designed to help you refine the research and writing skills you learned in History 200. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
34334	Discussion/ Recitation	D	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	327 Gregory Hall	Reagan, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section D. Topic: U.S. Women's History. Description: This research seminar will introduce you to some of the core research on the history of American women and gender with a special emphasis on higher education, the University of Illinois, and sexuality and health. As part of the course we will be discussing the historical construction of "woman" and "gender," analyzing how class, race, sexuality, and gender intersect and are co-related. Does asking questions from the perspective of "women" or with a gender analysis change the questions we ask? Do the answers to traditional questions change? We will be considering what the lives of ordinary women were like and how women were perceived over time--and also comparing the lives of students and employees on campus among other topics. In addition, the course aims to teach fundamental historical research and writing skills. To this end, we will be analyzing primary sources, visiting archives, and reading historical texts with an eye to learning how the historian did the research, the benefits and drawbacks of specific types of sources, and how to think creatively about research. You will be required to write a research paper based on primary and secondary sources. This course is also part of the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI), which is a special project that encourages students to learn about, interrogate, analyze and research the University of Illinois as an institution. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.