HIST 498

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

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 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32175	Discussion/ Recitation	A	12:30PM -2:20PM	T	222 David Kinley Hall	Jaimes, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Title: Empires in Theory and History Topic: This course examines the role and significance of empires in history, from the earliest empires in the Fertile Crescent to the collapse of the British Empire in the mid-20th Century. For millennia, empire has been the dominant form of political structuring and students will explore how the system remained in place by examining specific case studies and developing their own research projects. While the case studies will center on European empires, students are invited to focus their own research on any topic related to empire, regardless of geographic or temporal boundaries. As the capstone course for history majors, students will be expected to work both on class material as well as their own research project, utilizing both primary and secondary sources. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32178	Discussion/ Recitation	B	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	312 David Kinley Hall	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Topic: Shipwreck! Description: “Shipwreck!” is a course designed to allow students to a write a substantial research or historiographical paper on the theme of shipwreck, sailors, and castaways in the early modern and modern world. Along the way, we will examine both literature on shipwrecks themselves and on the imagination and metaphor of shipwreck. The basic requirements of the course include vigorous class participation; one critical essay on the readings; and a “capstone” research paper on a topic relating to shipwreck. And, of course, we will start with the Titanic. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
43311	Discussion/ Recitation	C	3:30PM -5:20PM	R	215 Davenport Hall	Beck, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Topic: Issues in American Indian History and Historiography Description: This seminar course explores a variety of issues in American Indian history. In the first part of the course, students will learn historiographic and methodological foundations of the field of American Indian history through weekly readings and discussions. We will examine the shift in the field from Euro-American centered to Indigenous centered history, as well as shifts in the history itself. The reading portion of the course is intended to establish a foundation on which students will build their own longer, more sustained works of original historical research. The resulting final paper (or project) should demonstrate a thorough grasp of the skills taught in HIST 200. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.