HIST 593

Fall 2018 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 27-Dec 12

Approaches to History

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Credit: 4 hours.

Required course for entering history graduate students offering in initial foray into historiography, methods, and conceptual approaches for students in all fields. Provides experience dealing with three challenges that face all practitioners of the discipline: identifying the historical problem to be tackled, deciding what methodologies are best suited to that problem, and locating and then making use of the primary sources necessary for analyzing the subject at hand. Assigned materials, class discussions, and assignments will prepare students for the second semester required research seminar. Restricted to first-year graduate students in history.

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HIST 593 class schedule data for fall 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	53136	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	Gregory Hall	Symes, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Section Info: Required for students who are entering the History graduate program. This course is the first half of a two-term sequence designed for first year students in the History Ph.D. program at UIUC. Description: We will address questions including: what is history and the historical mode of thinking, what is "interpretations," what is the role of "theory" in our work, what different genres of historical writing exist and what lessons do historiographical debates carry for our own practice as historians, teachers, and citizens? You will translate all this into a plan for research and writing an article-length study of your own design for the following semester. Through a series of assignments, we will grapple together with some of the specific challenges that face all practitioners of the discipline: identifying the historical problem in what we read and in what we research and write, identifying the methodologies scholars are using and that we wish to use, and understanding the use of primary sources. The range of specific topics, methods, regions, and times is quite wide. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.