HIST 499: RS: Senior Seminar in History

HIST 499-003: Senior Seminar: Curating Indigenous History
(Fall 2025)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Innovation Hall 338

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Section Information for Fall 2025

This course is a capstone of the history major that incorporates a public history approach to uplift indigenous voices in American history. These ancestors still teach us ways of knowing the past, illuminate profound understandings relevant to our present, and help to imagine possible futures. You will be finding your way to meet them and listen through rigorous primary and secondary historical research. Then, you will share their lessons in the role of a public history curator. In lieu of a traditional paper, the final product will be an originally researched exhibit content package and script. No prior experience is necessary.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Research on specialized historical topic culminating in seminar paper and oral presentation. Synthesis course; students expected to integrate knowledge and skills acquired in Mason Core courses. Notes: Subject determined by instructor. Student may present no more than 3 credits for graduation credit. Must receive passing grade to graduate with BA in history. Offered by History & Art History. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Mason Apex, Writing Intensive in Major
Specialized Designation: Research/Scholarship Intensive, Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: History majors with 90 credits
Registration Restrictions:

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.

Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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