HIST 610: The Study and Writing of History
HIST 610-001: Study and Writing of History
(Spring 2026)
07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T
Angel Cabrera Global Center 1306B
Section Information for Spring 2026
This course examines modern trends, theories, methodologies, and problems in historical analysis as a means of introducing graduate students to the academic practice of history. First, we will examine the institutional and conceptual development of the historical profession over time and explore the implications and effects of this development. Second, we will read and analyze a series of influential works that have profoundly influenced current ideas and practices. Finally, we will engage with a handful of more recent works that exemplify important aspects of the current state of the field and suggest ways in which it might move in the future. Along the way we will seek to address a number of important, often interrelated themes: the relationship between academic and popular approaches to history; the questions of how historians determine what and who are the proper subjects of historical inquiry; the ways in which historians identify and engage with sources and deal with their limitations; and the ways in which history as a field has been implicated in shaping and reinforcing power relationships in the modern world.
Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
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