HIST 498

Fall 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

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 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34331	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	English Building	Day, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Title: Race, Slavery, and Resistance Description: This seminar will examine the development, expansion, and decline of racial slavery in the early modern period, with a specific focus on the United States and Atlantic world. Students will explore the connections between issues of race, slavery, and empire across a range of geographic spaces and chronological periods. In this course we will engage with scholarly debates around issues including, but not limited to, resistance, agency, gender, labor, culture, and community. Building off this experience students will develop their own research projects under the supervision of the professor engaging with the topics or themes of the course. This class will help lead students on a step-by-step approach to crafting a research question, finding sources, and authoring a capstone project building off their experiences in history at Illinois. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
34332	Discussion/ Recitation	B	12:30PM -2:20PM	T	Gregory Hall	Chettiar, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Histories of Sexuality Section Info: Topic: Histories of Sexuality Description: Can sexuality be seen as having a history? And, if so, what is included in that field of study? This course focuses on the many ways that sex and sexuality have become objects of historical inquiry, focusing on a range of times and geographical locations from roughly 1800 to the present. We will consider how and why human beings across the modern world have come to be defined through differences relating to sexuality, and how this has intersected with other identity markers like race, gender, class, ability, and age. At the same time, we will explore how sex and sexuality have functioned as key areas of surveillance and control in an array of modern social and political arenas. To this end, we will examine the interplay of sexuality and a range of subject areas, including the politics of citizenship, empire, globalization, science and medicine, migration, and urban development. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
34334	Discussion/ Recitation	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	Gregory Hall	Toups, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writ Sem Section Info: Description: Since the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, the term “American Empire” has seen a resurgence in public discourse. Why has the term gained vogue, inspiring discussions about power, imperial decline, and intervention? And, in the era of “America First” followed by restored multilateralism, how do we analyze the United States’ place in the world? In this course, we will trace the development of “America’s” rise to world power, the formal and the informal nature of its imperial arrangements, and the impact of U.S. domination upon its imperial subjects, including their perspectives. And we will connect discussions of American empire to other experiences of empire around the world. In this course, the capstone for the history major, students will learn the architecture of a long research paper, engaging in original research and critique of primary sources, and exploring a subject of their choice in-depth. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.