HIST 390 - Thesis Forum

Support consists of developing skills specific to writing history at the MA level and as part of an accelerated degree program. These skills include but are not limited to time management for a year-long project, developing a research question, finding primary and second sources, managing the ups and downs of the research process, putting together an historiography, working with bibliographic management software, and crafting strong prose.

Support also includes presenting one’s own work and providing constructive those of others. This class is meant to supplement, not supplant, the work MA students do with their advisors.

Finally, because Honors students and MA students will meet together, the Thesis Forum provides MA students an opportunity to reflect on the differences between the BA and MA thesis and to mentor undergraduate Honors students.

Prerequisites: Successful admission into the History MA program.

Corequisites: HIST 397 MA Thesis Writing

Anticipated Terms Offered: Each semester