HIST 602 - Advanced Historical Research Methods

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0

This course is designed to give you an opportunity to think critically and creatively about how historians research, conceptualize, organize, and write about the past. To gain an understanding of how and why historical scholarship has evolved, we will read a variety of secondary sources in which historians reflect upon specific methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Equally important, this course is designed to give you an opportunity to practice the historian’s craft by engaging in the process of researching, conceptualizing, and writing history. We will dig deeply into a variety of primary sources as well as conceptual and methodological approaches. Every Fall Semester