Explorers, Liars and Travelers

Catalog description

This course focuses on teaching historical methods-the tools we use, as historians, to interpret and represent the past. Travelers provide an excellent and accessible body of historical sources across a wide range of time and places. But traveling is also a great metaphor for being a historian: like travelers, we lack perfect knowledge, we have questionable cultural understanding, and we try to make sense of the world we live in. This course has a required co-requisite Methods Lab. The four-credit hour version of the course satisfies the School of Liberal Arts Tier-2 Writing requirement.