HISTORIOGRAPHY: READING AND WRITING HISTORY

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This course trains students to master the fundamental skills necessary for reading, debating, and writing history at the professional level. Through extensive readings and focused, seminar-style discussions, students will develop their ability to critique existing scholarship, identify and explain different methods of historical research, and employ the scholarly conventions of professional historians. Students will also be given the opportunity to explore their own research questions within a particular field of study. This course should be taken, preferably, in the junior year. Prerequisite: HIST 2390.