01:30 PM to 04:15 PM M
Section Information for Fall 2010
This seminar will focus on the Salem witch trials of 1692 as the topic of research papers to be completed during the semester. The course will emphasize how to select research topics as well as historical research and writing. The goal is to produce a polished piece of scholarship (ca. 20-25 pp.) that serves as a capstone of what you have learned as a history major. Students will become familiar with the principal secondary accounts of the trials, and we shall be reading works by John Demos, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Mary Beth Norton, and Carol Karlsen to demonstrate some of the very different approaches historians have taken to the subject. Students will also become familiar with the the primary sources for the period, many conveniently located on line atView 3 Other Sections of this Course in this Semester »
Credits: 3
Required Prerequisites: (HIST 300C or 300XS) and (ENGH 302C, ENGL 302C, ENGH 302XS, HNRS 110C, 110XS, 210C, 302C or 302XS).
C Requires minimum grade of C.
XS Requires minimum grade of XS.
Enrollment is limited to students with a major in History.
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