HIS 441W - Making History

3 credit(s) Writing Intensive and High Impact Practice: Capstone
In this course students make history. They choose topics and conduct primary and secondary historical research on them, including how historical interpretations of their topics have changed over time. Students find and interpret primary sources, identify and report on the relevant historical scholarship, and ultimately seek to make and substantiate an original argument based on this research. In the end, students have “made history” and created their own contributions to scholarly literature on their topics. Weekly class discussions provide students with tools for locating and analyzing sources and learning how to write a coherent and well-argued historical article.
Prerequisite(s): HIS 100D or HIS 101, and HIS 130 and HIS 131.

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