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 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32175	Discussion/ Recitation	A	2:00PM -3:50PM	T	307 Gregory Hall	Burgos, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Integration and Sports Section Info: Title: Integration and Sports Topic: Initiated by Jackie Robinson’s 1947 breakthrough, the racial integration of Major League Baseball has often been hailed as a watershed event in U.S. history, mobilizing support for Civil Rights and the remaking of U.S. society. Yet, as trailblazers who followed Robinson into organized baseball and in other sports soon discovered, the process of pioneering integration was neither swift nor smooth. This research seminar will examine the Jackie Robinson story and also that of others who were integration pioneers. We will consider how their integration stories complicate or reaffirm popular narratives written about sports and integration. Assigned materials will allow us to analyze questions of historical interpretations by reading “integration stories” in the form of primary and secondary readings. Taught in a discussion-based format, the seminar’s assignments include response papers (3-4 pages), research tasks (such as proposal statement, annotated bibliography, and rough draft), and a final research paper (20-25 pages). Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32178	Discussion/ Recitation	B	12:30PM -2:20PM	R	111 Gregory Hall	Ramirez, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Oral Hist & Modern US Section Info: 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.
43311	Discussion/ Recitation	C	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	329 Gregory Hall	Denby, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: A Queer United States Section Info: Topic: A Queer United States Description: Queer history is a political project. The recovery, analysis, and interpretation of sexual minorities’ pasts is a political project! The goal of this course is to understand the history of non-normative sexuality, as well as how to research, analyze, and present original historical arguments. LGBT history provides a series of historical problems to be solved. Are “histories” universal or culturally specific? In what ways were actions and desires regulated by the state and society? What evidence is available to us now and what was not “archived” and why? How do we uncover, interpret, and present historical scholarship? From early “sodomitical sins” of the Colonial Period, to the militant and radical queer response to the AIDS epidemic, we will uncover and interpret the uses and abuses of sexuality and identity and begin to discover just how queer the United States really is.
32180	Discussion/ Recitation	D	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	307 David Kinley Hall	Mathisen, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic: Preserving the Written Word on Durable Material in Antiquity & the Middle Ages Description: This seminar will investigate ways in which the written word was preserved in antiquity and the Middle Ages on durable materials (such as stone, ceramics, and metal), as opposed to on papyrus, parchment, and paper. Students will learn to identify, analyze, and contextualize objects that preserve a bit of ancient or medieval text. These objects could be an inscription on stone, a name scratched on a piece of pottery, words engraved onto a ring, or letters etched on a metal strap. A final report and paper will identify and date an object, transcribe and translate (don’t worry, this will not be difficult!) the text, and place the object and its accompanying text into their proper historical context, relating them to similar objects and texts. Knowledge of other languages is useful, but not necessary. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.