HIST 594

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Intro Historical Writing

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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 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	52242	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	Gregory Hall	Todorova, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Info: Description: This seminar concludes the two-part sequence for first year History graduate students that began in HIST 593. HIST 594 guides students in the writing of an original piece of historical scholarship while introducing them to disciplinary issues in the field. Thus, while working to craft a research paper of article length (c. 10,000 words), our course will also examine such issues as: identifying and utilizing traditional and nontraditional sources, developing a research problem, crafting an extended interpretive argument, finding your authorial voice, formulating research and writing strategies, determining the role of theory, intervening in the historiography, identifying publication venues, and communicating findings across disciplinary fields. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	59646	Discussion/ Recitation	B	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	Gregory Hall	Ali, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.