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.

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

Advanced Composition

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HIST 498 class schedule data for fall 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34331	Discussion/ Recitation	A	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	Gregory Hall	Gilbert, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section A. Topic: American Indian Boarding School Experience Description: This research seminar will explore the American Indian boarding school experience during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The course will focus on a time in American history when US government officials forcefully sent thousands of Native children and young adults to federal Indian schools to be assimilated into American society. Textbooks and other readings in this course will seek to understand the Indian boarding school experience from Native perspectives, and they will cover topics such as Native student athletes and sports, student labor, US government education policies, and the ways Indian studens resisted (or at times embraced) an educational system that was intended to weaken their tribal identities and cultures. In addition to engaging secondary sources, students will consult primary documents, documentary films, and oral histories to produce a final research paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
34333	Discussion/ Recitation	C	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Jacobsen, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section C. Topic: The Foreign Gaze: Latin America in the Eyes of Travelers, 1750-1950 Description: This course pursues two goals: To study how foreigners (mostly Europeans and North Americans) have portrayed Latin American societies, cultures and politics; and to systematically work on substantial research papers, from bibliography to polished final papers. Foreigners have had a love-hate relationship with Latin America, and the majorityof travelers have given us a rather warped, unrealistic image of the continent. They have portrayed it is a place of perfect, exuberant nature and depraved society, of Indian victims and corrupt elites, or as the opposite: as a continent of enervating tropics, racially inferior indigenous and African descent populations and heroic European struggles of "civilizing" barbarians. In most cases Latin America has served as a seemingly empty canvass to project the desires, visions and interests of foreign writers, from the erudite Alexander von Humboldt to the caustic Aldous Huxley and moralistic Graham Greene. Along with regular work on the research projects we will read exciting travel reports and modern scholarship on travel writing. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
34334	Discussion/ Recitation	D	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Cuno, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section D. Topic: Family in History. Description: The family is in flux. The legalization of same-sex marriage in a number of countries is the latest in a series of developments since the mid-twentieth century that have re-shaped family ideology and family life itself in much of the world. However, there never was a "traditional family" to be undone. Instead, there was an older family ideal, only occasionally realized in practice, which was invented two centuries earlier. In this course we will be surveying historic Euro-American family ideals and practices, their export to the non-Western world, and recent developments from no-fault divorce to same-sex marriage. In addition to readings and discussions, students will research and present on a topic related to the family in history - as practiced, as idealized, as legislated, and so on. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.