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 fall 2021
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34331	Discussion/ Recitation	A	2:00PM -3:50PM	W	138 Wohlers Hall	Ettinger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Race Ethnicity & US Cities Section Info: Title: Race, Ethnicity, and U.S. Cities Description: This course will explore how race and ethnicity shaped experiences in U.S. cities during the mid-to-late 20th century. Students will examine race and ethnicity’s relationship to key issues in cities across the U.S. like access to public space, urban renewal and displacement, housing, labor, and civil rights activism, among other concerns. This course will examine how race and ethnicity informed competing claims over urban space and its everyday use, revealing how U.S. cities in the post-WWII period underwent changes that fueled debates about who could lay claim to urban space. This course is designed to introduce students to how scholars examine the intersections between race, ethnicity, and urban history. Students will analyze primary sources, read secondary sources, and visit the library to learn about its resources that will ultimately assist each student in producing their own research and writing project related to the topic of this course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
34332	Discussion/ Recitation	B	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	148 Henry Administration Bldg	Hoganson, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: The US in the Bad Neighbor Era Section Info: Topic: The United States in the bad neighbor era Description: This seminar considers the years preceding President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy. Focusing on U.S. foreign relations, broadly conceived, in the Americas, it asks: what were the policies and practices ostensibly repudiated in 1933? How might looking at different actors – such as bankers, workers associated with the United Fruit Company, Garveyites, U.S. military personnel, consular officers, tourists, and labor migrants – help us place the United States in hemispheric context in a time period known for U.S. military interventions and expanding corporate and financial power? In addition to reading cutting-edge scholarship, you will be guided through the process of writing an original research paper. Although the default geographic area for the class is the United States, depending on your paper topic, you may petition to have this course count for a different geographic area. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to History major(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.
34333	Discussion/ Recitation	C	3:30PM -5:20PM	R	215 Gregory Hall	Ramirez, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Topic: Oral History Methods for Modern US History Description: This course explores the pleasures and challenges of creating and using oral history as a method for historical research. We will begin by tracing the emergence of oral history in the 1970s as a result of broader civil and social justice movements. We will explore not only how such interviews can be used to explore what happened in the past but also how memories of the past are constructed in the present as people give meaning to their lives through story. Students will develop their own original research project based on the class themes. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.