Fall 2017 - HIST 300 D100
Historiography (4)
Class Number: 2973
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Fri, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Dec 11, 2017
Mon, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Roxanne Panchasi
panchasi@sfu.ca
1 778 782-6809
Office: AQ 6017
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Prerequisites:
45 units, including six units of lower division history.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Examines the conceptual problems involved in the historian's attempt to apprehend the past. Focuses on the nature of historical knowledge and explanation, and to the broad systems and patterns in which history has been conceived.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course explores the conceptual problems involved in historians’ approaches to interpreting and understanding the past from the ancient world to the present. Focusing on the nature of historical knowledge and explanation, and the broad systems and patterns in which history has been conceived, we will examine a range of historical authors across many centuries, and from contexts throughout the globe. Surveying a variety of modes of historical writing and representation, we will consider the driving questions, forms and standards of evidence, narrative and analytic strategies, political perspectives and effects of the work of historians, from Herodotus to the scholars who research, write, and teach in SFU’s own Department of History.
The format of our course sessions will emphasize group discussion, in-class reading and writing exercises, and the development of oral presentation skills. Students will be encouraged to think creatively about their own work as historians-in-training, as well as a range of approaches to the discipline across a number of sub-fields. Throughout the term, we will also consider the work of historians as researchers and writers, as teachers, as members of a professional community, and as scholars engaged with a broader public outside of the academy.
Grading
- Seminar Participation 20%
- Short Essays (6 pages 2 x 20%) 40%
- Research Assignment (12-15 pages) 40%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Jeremy Popkin, From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography (2016)
Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (2016)
A number of additional selections will also be required and available via Canvas.
Registrar Notes:
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