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 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32175	Discussion/ Recitation	A	2:00PM -3:50PM	T	222 David Kinley Hall	Asaka, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Title: Gender and Sexuality in US History Topic: We will explore women's, gender, and sexuality history as we read scholarly work on a variety of topics. The course also examines how scholars have treated the category of race as part of their analytical framework for studying gender and sexuality. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32178	Discussion/ Recitation	B	11:00AM -12:50PM	W	1057 Lincoln Hall	Baul, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Topic: Anti-colonial Resistance in South Asia Description: Encompassing a vast and diverse region that includes the present-day states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Bhutan, South Asia is home to a fourth of the world’s population. For most of its modern history, the region was a colony of the British empire. Independence from colonial rule came in the late-1940s, after a century of popular struggle. This course will examine certain key strands of anti-colonial resistance that developed in modern South Asia during the colonial period. It will assess both elite and subaltern politics by focussing closely on movements and ideologies that responded to the imperial encounter. Students will be encouraged to make connections with present-day politics in the region. By examining the past with an eye to its contemporary relevance, we will explore how anti-colonial mobilisations reshaped modern South Asian cultures. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
43311	Discussion/ Recitation	C	3:30PM -5:20PM	T	1020 Lincoln Hall	Beck, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Section Title: Research & Writing Seminar Section Info: Topic: American Indian Treaties, Lands, and Resources. Description: This course begins with the premise that the U.S. is built on lands, taken, stolen, or coerced from Indigenous peoples over the course of more than two hundred years. Today, many Indigenous peoples want their land back. This seminar explores the historical and contemporary foundations of the “land back” movement in Indian country. Readings focus on the taking of land and resources from tribal nations, protection of land and resources by tribes, and efforts to regain those land and resources that have been taken. 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.