07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R
Krug Hall 205
Section Information for Spring 2011
History 300 is designed to teach students to think and write as historians. We will do this by studying violent and sexual crime, and historical understandings of criminality in American life, ca. 1776-1900. Among the topics we will discuss will be environment vs. heredity in the making of the criminal mind; investigation, prosecution, and defense of criminals; theories of punishment; the prevention of crime; and the relationship of the history of crime to the larger story of 19th-century America. We will examine the ways in which historians have approached this topic, and we will learn how to interpret it ourselves using the tools of the historian: argument and evidence. This course fulfills all or in part the writing-intensive requirement for the history major.View 4 Other Sections of this Course in this Semester »
Credits: 3
Enrollment is limited to students with a major in History.
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