2010 Spring HISTORY 105S-01
Bulletin Course Description Introduction to historical analysis and research in a seminar setting. Students learn how to formulate research questions, evaluate existing scholarship, interpret historical evidence, craft historical argument orally and in writing. Several sections on different topics are offered each semester
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Title HISTORY AT SEA Department HISTORY Course Number 2010 Spring 105S Section Number 01 Primary Instructor Ewald,Janet J Prerequisites
Synopsis of course content
Directed for students majoring in history, this seminar helps students begin to navigate (pun intended) their exploration of the past by examining ships and life at sea.
Ships and voyages provide excellent sites for historical investigation. They lend themselves to different historical approaches: economic history, history of technology, labor history, history and literature. In addition, a range of historical sources provide evidence about ships and voyages: material artifacts; oral narratives and song; written documents; works of fiction.
Exams
None
Term Papers
An imaginative, but historically plausible, reconstruction of a ship or a voyage. By working on the term paper, students will develop skills at: asking a historical question; finding and analyzing evidence; writing a narrative; imagining the entirety of a “moment” in the past. The term paper should be twenty to twenty-five pages long.
Grade to be based on
Class participation, short writing assignments during the semester, term paper.
Additional Information
Professor Ewald reserves the right to revise the course from the description above.
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