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 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32175	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:30PM -5:20PM	T	221 Gregory Hall	Asaka, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section: A. Title: US Gender and Sexuality Topic: This course focuses on the history of gender and sexuality in the United States. We will explore the construction of the fields of women's, gender, and sexuality history as we read seminal work that has built and transformed scholarship. The course also examines how scholars have treated the category of race as part of their analytical framework for studying gender and sexuality. Students will learn the necessary skills to conduct original research, present on the outcome, and write a long paper based on their archival work. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
	32178	Discussion/ Recitation	B	12:30PM -2:20PM	T	Location Pending	Hitchins, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Meets with HIST 495, Section: B. Topic: Empires: Mongols, Ottomans, Habsburgs. Description: We shall investigate the nature of empires and their place in history through a comparative study of the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan and his successors, the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia and Southeastern Europe, and the Habsburg Empire in Central and Eastern Europe. Our main concerns will be the formation of empires, their armies and methods of warfare, their conquests and treatment of conquered peoples, their political and economic organization, their religious and legal institutions, especially Islamic, their relations with Europe, and their decline. Besides surveys of each empire, we shall inquire into the character of empires in general from Roman times to the twentieth century and thus place our three case studies within this broad historical context in order to see how empire building evolved. Besides readings and class discussions, we shall focus our attention on the research for and the writing of a paper of some length. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.