HIST 593

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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 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	53136	Discussion/ Recitation	A	5:00PM -6:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Burton, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 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 take a capacious view of “approaches and methods.” Among the questions we will engage are: what is history and what are historical modes of thinking; what is the role of theory, evidence and archives in our work; what different genres of historical writing are available; what lessons do historiographical debates carry for our own practice as historians, teachers, and citizens; and what are the variety of venues in which we can practice as historians? 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, examining the methodologies scholars use, understanding the use of primary sources, and experimenting with genre and venue. The syllabus will explore these issues across a range of topics, methods, regions, and timeframes and formats. Restriction(s): Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.