Historical Lenses and Scholarship

Catalog description

What does it mean to focus on the economic issues of a historical event? What considerations of race, gender, class, or other lenses of difference can be made to illuminate the social and cultural experiences of people throughout history? The central focus of this course is to provide students with an exploration into various lenses of historical research and analysis and how these lenses can structure the types of questions a historian asks. Students will integrate best practices for the production and writing of historical scholarship using a chosen lens (or lenses) of analysis.