HIST 368 - Special Topics

The aim of this graduate course is very explicitly not to cover a historical subject, but to develop students’ historiographical and professional tool kits. Our work will include - but is not limited to - investigation of how to research the public domain, the private domain, and the secret and hidden. What research questions demand the use of personal accounts? What is the difference between interview, testimony, and oral history? What is the purpose and value of each method, and how is each conducted? And how does a historian present her/his analysis?  This course in open only to graduate students.

 

Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied