07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R
Peterson Hall 2408
Section Information for Spring 2023
This research seminar focuses on histories of the development of technology, policy, or both. We will tell stories of how people identified problems, debated possible solutions, and effected change for the better or worse. The seminar is designed to give students a great deal of leeway to choose topics about which they care, provided they can locate appropriate primary sources. Students are encouraged to contact the professor to discuss possible topics.
The chief goal of this class is simple: to give students experience writing original scholarly history using primary sources. While not the only task of the historian, this is the basic task, practiced since the time of Thucydides. The final product of the course is a paper of the length typically published by a scholarly journal. Thus, by the end of the course, students should understand what it takes to produce a scholarly article, and some may even wish to revise theirs for publication.
Other goals are reading secondary scholarship critically, supporting peers in their work, and learning about the history of policy and technology.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Cultural Studies, Education (Community College) or History.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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