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 2021
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32175	Online	A	12:30PM -2:20PM	T	n.a.	Tiglay, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Nation, Nat'lism & Modern Euro Section Info: Topic: Nation, Nationalism, and Modern Europe Description: Nation, Nationalism and Modern Europe (1789-1918) offers a preliminary introduction to the history of Europe during the Modern Era through the lens of the broader historiography. The course focuses on the emergence of nation, nation-state and nationalism and relates these concepts to the numerous other developments in the course of the long nineteenth century. HIST 498 primarily aims at encouraging students to develop their own critique on the major historical events in Modern Europe and at familiarizing them with the leading theories in the field. As students will be asked to think about the links between the nation and the fundamental changes undertaken in this period, they will be able to study the changing dynamics of national formation as a result of its constant interaction with the structural innovations in Europe. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32178	Online	B	2:00PM -3:50PM	R	n.a.	van der Velde, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Hist of Viol in Early Mod Euro Section Info: Topic: History of Violence in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World Description: Discussions of the early modern era focus on change: global connectivity via trade and colonization, scientific advancement and discovery, and the development of new philosophies and theories. Violence accompanied these changes in every sphere, and this realization is the central topic in this course. We will try to answer several questions regarding violence, specifically in Europe and the Atlantic World. Was the period significantly different than those that preceded or succeeded it? How do we define and understand violence? Is violence endemic to the systems developed in this era? What about nonviolent or violent resistance to violence? This course will be centered on six themes related to violence: class, economy and labor, gender and sexuality, race, religion, and state violence and rebellion. The goal of our readings and themes is to help each student develop their own original research project. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
43311	Online	C	2:00PM -3:50PM	T	n.a.	Asaka, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Gender and Sexuality Section Info: Topic: Gender and Sexuality in Global Context Description: Gender and Sexuality in Global Context This course takes transnational and comparative approaches to analysis of gender, race, and sexuality. We will look at diverse gender and sexuality systems from the classical to modern era in places from Iran to India to Nigeria. We examine the historical processes such as colonialism by which Western gender and sexual dichotomy crossed borders and generated contests and negotiations in the reconfiguration of social relations in local spaces. 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.
32180	Online	D	3:30PM -5:20PM	R	n.a.	Ramirez, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic: Oral History and Modern US 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.