HIST 495

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Honors Research & Writing Sem

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Credit: 3 hours.

A topic-specific course required of all students in the History Honors Program, and meeting with HIST 498. Each student's work will be evaluated and graded by the instructor of the HIST 498. In addition, students will complete a self-assessment exercise supervised by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: HIST 200 and admission to the History Honors Program.

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

Advanced Composition

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HIST 495 class schedule data for spring 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
43322	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	Foreign Languages Building	Freund, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: Restricted to Students in the History Honors Program. Meets with HIST 498, Section: A. Title: The Age of Democratic Revolutions: 1775-1825 Topic: What is a revolution? Why was there a wave of revolutions and independence movements in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Historians call this an age of revolutions, but to what extent were the revolutions included in it similar or different? In this seminar, we will explore the answers to these questions and more. After first defining the period of Atlantic Revolutions, we will cover the American, French, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions and their ramifications in the wider world. Students will be introduced to relevant primary source databases available through our library such as online newspapers and pamphlet literature, as well as printed sources and online digitized archives. Students will develop a research project addressing some aspect of this period, broadly speaking, that is relevant to their interests. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
54477	Discussion/ Recitation	B	1:00PM -2:50PM	T	Gregory Hall	Hitchins, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: Restricted to Students in the History Honors Program. Meets with HIST 498, Section: B. Topic: Empires: Mongols, Ottomans, Habsburgs. Description: An inquiry into the nature of empires and their place in history. The Mongol, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires will serve as case studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
54478	Discussion/ Recitation	D	2:00PM -3:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Espiritu, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: Restricted to Students in the History Honors Program. Meets with HIST 498, Section D. Title: American Empire: Global Power and Its Liimits Topic: The term "American empire" has undergone a resurgence in the twenty-first century, made relevant to contemporary discussions of U.S. globa power by a series of traumatic events from 9/11 and the "war on terror, " to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, to the current dilemmas over Syria and the South China Sea, which suggest U.S. imperial limitations. In this course, we will trace the development of the United States as a world power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring debates about its status as an empire. We will examine the formal colonial and the informal hegemonic nature of American power. And we will also connect discussions of American Empire to other experiences of empire around the world. In this course, the capstone for the history major, students will learn specifically the construction of a long research paper, engaging in original research that will allow them to explore a subject or theme-in-depth. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
65220	Discussion/ Recitation	E	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	Lincoln Hall	Abele, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Special Approval: Advisor Approval Required Section Info: Restricted to Students in the History Honors Program Meets with HIST 498 Section: E Topic: Race and Ethnicity in the Global Nineteenth Century Description: This course considers nineteenth century systems of difference and exclusion in a comparative context. North America, India, and East Asia will serve as case studies. We will investigate how categories such as race, caste, and status operated in practice and influenced one another. Major topics include the effect of ideas of race on existing status societies in East Asia, the reshaping of caste in colonial India, and the difference in pre-and-post Civil War American racism. As a capstone course for history majors, students will develop a research paper based on primary sourses. Student will selet a topic related to the course concepts that matches their interests. Restriction(s): Not intended for History major(s). Not intended for Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.