HIST 485

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Topical Readings Seminar

History College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Course Description

Reading, discussing, and writing about selected historical issues. Especially recommended for students going on to graduate programs in History.

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Historical Knowledge

Learning Outcome

Students will increase their knowledge of the substantive theme of the course, which will rotate (the theme for Fall 2011, for instance, is Changes in Religious Cultures)

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Critical Analysis

Learning Outcome

Better understand how a work of History is put together, learn how to make a fair and detailed judgment of historical work (the act of criticism), all of which will make you better prepared to create History yourself

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Research Literature

Learning Outcome

Students will learn and practice fundamental analytical tools for analyzing secondary sources more deeply than is possible in most upper-level history courses

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Effective Communication

Learning Outcome

Students will, by learning more deeply how a work of history is put together, be better prepared for writing an original research paper in History 490 and for graduate school in either History or a related discipline