HIST 200

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Intro Hist Interpretation

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Credit: 3 hours.

Through the careful examination of a specific topic or theme, this course provides a thorough introduction to historical interpretation. Particular attention will be devoted to research strategies, writing practices, handling primary and secondary sources, and the analysis of historiography.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours with permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

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HIST 200 class schedule data for spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	34113	Lecture-Discussion	B	10:00AM -11:20AM	MW	385 Education Building	Asaka, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Info: Topic: African American History and Culture Description: This course teaches the basic skills of historical scholarship while exploring important themes in African American history up to the abolition of slavery. Students will learn how to engage secondary sources, interpret primary documents, organize information, and write in clear prose. Topics covered in this class include the Atlantic slave trade, black abolitionism, military service, and gender relations and community formations among enslaved people.
	34114	Lecture-Discussion	C	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	221 Gregory Hall	Mumford, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Info: Title: The 1970’s Topic: The purpose of this course is to introduce majors in history to methods of historical research, historiography, and scholarly writing and presentation. The course objectives include learning to converse and think critically about books and articles; to consider various author’s approaches to interpretation, narrative, and chronology; to create a bibliography; to design an original and doable research plan; to construct a research essay; to give presentations on your writing; and to work on editing and critically evaluating your own work and that of your classmates. The major readings include, but are not limited to, the following: Winifred Breines, The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of Black and White Women in the Feminist Movement, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) Alice Echols, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, (New York: Norton, 2010) Stanley I. Kutler, Documents on Watergate Bruce Schulman, The Rightward Turn: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)