Seminar

Catalog description

As the senior seminar in history, the course leads toward a capstone project that integrates the skills historians use when researching and writing history. Reading, discussion, and writing are major requirements of the course. The course includes discussion of historiography, selections of a research topic, and the mechanics of research and writing an essay. During the first half of the semester, the end product will be an annotated bibliography, which is a prerequisite for the research paper to be produced during the second half of the course. the object of this course is to take the expertise acquired in the history curriculum and carry out an advanced research project. The instructor will choose an overarching theme or topic for the course that offers broad possibilities for the student projects.