HIST 498

Spring 2024 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 16-May 1

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 2024
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32175	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	212 David Kinley Hall	Jaimes, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Title: Empire 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 more than a 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	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	111 David Kinley Hall	Symes, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Topic: Getting Medieval: Medievalisms in the Modern World Description: The era known as “the Middle Ages” is an ongoing invention of modernity, and the uses that have been made of it are even more malleable than the period itself. This seminar is an introduction to medievalism: the conceptions, constructs, and fantasies of the medieval past that are constantly shaped and reshaped by fresh historical circumstances and perspectives. It explores how various, and often contradictory, meanings attached to “the medieval” have helped to make sense of modern problems and developments, and it offers participants the opportunity to pursue original research on one of its many facets. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
43311	Discussion/ Recitation	C	2:00PM -3:50PM	T	1110 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Whittington, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Topic: After Empire: Europe in the Wake of Total War and Decolonization Description: The twentieth century saw the collapse of most European empires, a process that accelerated in the wake of two world wars. We typically imagine decolonization as a process that unfolded primarily in the so-called peripheries of empires, as former colonies found new footing as independent states. However, decolonization also profoundly shaped European countries as they emerged in the wake of world wars and imperial collapse. Shed of colonies, European countries navigated a new and uncertain world, as states and citizens alike grappled with imperial legacies. In this course, we explore post-imperial European history, considering discourses of nation- and statehood, post-imperial migration, international relations, imperial nostalgia, and contested memory politics. Europe’s “post-imperial” history will be used a springboard for developing original research projects. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32180	Discussion/ Recitation	D	2:00PM -3:50PM	T	242 Armory	Hogarth, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Info: Topic: The Racial Dimensions of Medicine and Public Health Description: TBD Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.