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Fall 2017  |  HIST 3020 Section 001: Hands-On History -- The 1960s: A Decade of Change (35244)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 210
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Tired of textbooks? Investigate the past directly and develop the ability to answer your own questions. Gain hands-on experience researching, analyzing, and presenting the past using archives, interviews, online research, visual and textual analysis, etc. Explore presentation through essays, websites, films, exhibits, and more.
Class Description:
The 1960s was a decade of hope, fear and incredible change. These years witnessed the rise of race, youth, gender, anti-war, conservative, and radical movements in the wake of a hot Cold War and a series of anticolonial revolutions. The course offers students a deep introduction to this fascinating decade in U.S. history. This methods and skills course also fulfills a departmental requirement for all History majors. Through the study of the 1960s, students will be introduced to the methods and skills historians have used to write this history. This course also offers students an opportunity to think deeply about the purpose, meaning, significance, and work of history. Students will leave this course with a deeper understanding of a significant moment in U.S. history and a fuller understanding of the exciting and powerful work of history.
Who Should Take This Class?:
All are welcome. This course is a requirement for all History majors declaring the major in Fall 2017 or after that term.
Learning Objectives:

Can identify, define, and solve problems


This course is designed to introduce History majors and non-majors to the methods, skills, and philosophies historians use to identify, define, and answer historical questions. Students will get a deep introduction to primary source analysis, the historiography of the sixties, and the philosophical debates that inform historical work and have reshaped the historical profession in the sixties. This course will help students identify research problems based on their reading of scholarly accounts of the past and historical documents;
identify sources and data that can provide the basis for research; and use a variety of methods (textual, visual, quantitative, spatial, etc.) in the task of refining and researching historical questions.
This outcome will be assessed through short primary source analysis papers, assignments that gauge the student's ability to identify and define the nature of historiographic debate, and a series of in-class activities that introduce students to a range of research methods and practices.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35244/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 April 2017

Fall 2017  |  HIST 3020 Section 002: Hands-On History -- The Work of History: Global Apartheid (35246)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 260
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Tired of textbooks? Investigate the past directly and develop the ability to answer your own questions. Gain hands-on experience researching, analyzing, and presenting the past using archives, interviews, online research, visual and textual analysis, etc. Explore presentation through essays, websites, films, exhibits, and more.
Class Description:
1989 and 1990 saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, respectively. These events are emblematic of a changing world order which saw the dismantling of apartheid even as racialized separation, oppression, and exploitation went global. In a world increasingly characterized by separations and divisions (made visible in the proliferation of physical walls and the hardening of borders) between rich and poor, between the privileged and the disenfranchised, between those whose lives matter and those who are understood to be entirely expendable, this course asks students to think about historical constructions of difference (such as race and gender), and about the past and History in relationship to the challenges of the present and towards a future yet to come. This course will introduce history majors to the methods and practices of historical knowledge production and to the philosophy of history. While attending to the work of history, and historiography, this course will also ask what history is for and what the historian does in research (as the detective and the archivist), in writing (as the storyteller and the analyst), and in (critical) thought (as the teacher and the philosopher).
Who Should Take This Class?:
This methods and skills course fulfills a departmental requirement for all History majors.
Learning Objectives:
This course is designed to introduce History majors and non-majors to the methods, skills, and philosophies historians use to identify, define, and answer historical questions. Students will get a deep introduction to primary source analysis, the historiography of race and other forms of separation, oppression and exploitation, and the philosophical debates that inform historical work and have (re)shaped the historical profession. This course will help students identify research problems based on their reading of scholarly accounts of the past and historical documents; identify sources and data that can provide the basis for research; and use a variety of methods (textual, visual, quantitative, spatial, etc.) in the task of refining and researching historical questions.
Grading:
Grades will be assessed through short primary source analysis papers, assignments that gauge the student's ability to identify and define the nature of historiographic debate, and a series of in-class activities that introduce students to a range of research methods, practices and ways of knowing.
Exam Format:
No exam
Class Format:
Seminar
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35246/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 April 2017

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