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 spring 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32175	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	1110 Foreign Languages Building	Freund, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section: A. Title: The Age of Democratic Revolustions: 1775-1825 Topid: 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 AtlanticRevolutions, 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 Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32178	Discussion/ Recitation	B	1:00PM -2:50PM	T	111 Gregory Hall	Hitchins, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section: B. Topic: Empires: Mongols, Ottomans, Habsburgs. Description: An inquiry into the nature of empires andtheir place in history. The Mongol, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires will serve as case studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32180	Discussion/ Recitation	D	2:00PM -3:50PM	M	315 Gregory Hall	Espiritu, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section D. Topic: American Empire: Global Power and Its Limits Description: The term "American empire" has undergone a resurgence in the twenty-first century, made relevant to contemporary discussions of U.S. global 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 Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32184	Discussion/ Recitation	E	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	1020 Lincoln Hall	Abele, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic: Race & Ethnicity in the Global Nineteeth Century Description: This course considers nineteenth century systems of differences 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 sources. Student will select a topic related to the course concepts that matches their interests. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.