HIST 495 - Historiography

3 credits
3 hours per week.

This course, open only to History majors, will survey different schools of historical writing and the varying interpretations of historians; it will help students to develop their capacities for analysis and judgment of historical materials; and it will synthesize material from the wide range of classes in history to develop students’ historical understanding. The work in this class will prepare students for writing the Senior Thesis. (Formerly HIST 497).

Prerequisite(s) upper-level students only
Offered (FALL/SPRING)