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HIST 4961W is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | HIST 4961W Section 001: Major Paper (21873)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
- HIST 4961V Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:55PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 17 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Research paper on topic of student's choice. Work largely with primary sources. Faculty guidance. prereq: dept consent, instr consent; sign up in Undergraduate Studies Office two sem in advance
- Class Notes:
- Student chosen topic, permission number needed.
- Class Description:
- This course will provide you with the opportunity to do your own research on a topic of your choosing. The course is meant to introduce students to the way in which history is conceptualized, researched and written. You will be introduced to the methodologies of researching and analyzing different types of history as well as guidance in writing a research proposal, producing a first draft and revising the draft to create the final paper.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21873/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 October 2012
Fall 2021 | HIST 4961W Section 002: Major Paper (35305)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
- HIST 4961V Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:45PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (15 of 18 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Research paper on topic of student's choice. Work largely with primary sources. Faculty guidance. prereq: dept consent, instr consent; sign up in Undergraduate Studies Office two sem in advance
- Class Notes:
- Students and instructors must be online at the same time, at scheduled days and times. 100% of instruction is online with no in-person meetings. Exams are also all online. TOPIC: The Black Death: Plague in History In 1348, the disease that would be called the Black Death swept west from Central Asia to Europe, where it quickly annihilated up to 1/3 of Europe's population in about one year. This was neither the first nor the last occurrence of this dread disease in World history. The Justinianic Plague of the 6th century was devastating as well. This course will investigate the nature and effects of plague in its many medieval visitations. Plague is only one of a number of epidemic diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, and Swine Flu that have wrecked havoc in human societies. We will focus on Western Europe and the societies with which it came into contact, in terms of demographic, economic, social, psychic, intellectual and artistic effects.
- Class Description:
- This course combines an introduction to historical research with the actual research experience of writing the senior paper in History. The first weeks will be devoted to an exploration of the use of documents and the varieties of historical writing. The research paper will focus on a topic of the student's choice and will be based on the investigation of primary sources (printed documents, memoirs, literature, etc.).
- Grading:
- 90% Reports/Papers
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 100% Discussion
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
40 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
Other Workload: Paper plan, bibliography and other exercises - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35305/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 October 2012
Fall 2021 | HIST 4961W Section 003: Major Paper (35306)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
- HIST 4961V Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:45PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 435
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (11 of 18 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Research paper on topic of student's choice. Work largely with primary sources. Faculty guidance. prereq: dept consent, instr consent; sign up in Undergraduate Studies Office two sem in advance
- Class Notes:
- TOPIC: The long Civil Rights Movement The field of civil rights history has expanded tremendously in the past decade, from a focus on the non-violent movement against southern Jim Crow to analysis of a full spectrum of African American politics in the post-World War II era. This change has resulted from increasing dialogue among scholars of African American history and scholars in women's history, labor history, and the history of foreign and domestic policy. It has also led scholars to rethink basic categories of class and gender, as well as dichotomies between moderate and militant, non-violent and Black Power, or northern and southern that seemed unproblematic to earlier scholars of the movement. This expansion has allowed scholars to understand the civil rights movement as a thread uniting a wide array of social, economic and political changes that characterized postwar American history. Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall calls this thread the "long civil rights movement." Students in this course will participate in this rethinking of the civil rights movement by producing a 8-10 page paper based on their own primary research. Over the course of the semester, they will read and discuss books and articles that have inspired or built upon the rethinking. They will also learn to identify and use archival records, oral history interviews, and newspaper accounts that document the movement. They will team up with a writing partner who will critique their work and share strategies for completing the final writing assignment before the end of the semester.
- Class Description:
- The major paper seminar is the capstone course for history majors. After spending many semesters reading other scholars' ideas and interpretations, you now have the opportunity to research, analyze, and write your own original work of scholarship. It can be one of the most rewarding intellectual experiences of your time at the University of Minnesota. The senior paper consists of a 20-30 page paper based on original research in primary sources (sources like letters, diaries, newspaper articles, interviews, government documents, etc., rather than scholarly articles or books). It can be on a topic of your choosing, but you are highly encouraged to discuss your paper topic with the instructor before the course begins. Refining the topic and even changing it often occurs during the course of the semester, but it is important to have some ideas before hand. This semester long course introduces students to the primary methods of historical research, analysis, and writing and guides students through the process of defining a topic, finding relevant secondary and primary sources, writing a research proposal, conducting the research, outlining and writing a first draft, and revising that draft to create a final paper.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35306/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 September 2007
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