What is History

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This course provides an introduction to a range of theoretical frameworks and methodologies that have influenced the academic study of history, including microhistory, global history, histories of gender and race, and subaltern/post-colonial historical studies. We will interrogate the key categories of historical temporality and geography by questioning how historians impose temporal and spatial boundaries around their research, as well as ways to expand or dissolve those boundaries. We will also examine how historians construct historiographical debates around particular research themes, such as the changing meaning of national histories. The aim is to acquire knowledge of a variety of historical approaches at work when reading both historical scholarship and historical source materials. Prerequisites: None. Fulfillment: Humanities Foundations/Introductory Courses (18-19 Critical Concepts Core Course).