Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2021 - HIST 814 G100

Historical Methods (5)

Class Number: 3919

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 8 – Dec 7, 2021: Fri, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

COURSE DETAILS:

This course introduces students to the principal analytical frameworks that have shaped historians’ work over the past half century. Students will examine both the theoretical justifications historians have given, and the practical concerns historians have faced, in selecting these frameworks for analysis. Perhaps the most important question with which students will grapple is: How have historians mined their sources in order to give credence to their representations of the past? Students will discover that, regardless of the contexts and sources they are examining, particular problems of interpretation and representation arise time and time again among practitioners of the discipline.

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Grading

  • Weekly responses 30%
  • Presentation 10%
  • Term paper 40%
  • Class participation 20%

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

Selected texts:

N.B. All texts will be available at no cost to students, through electronic editions available via the library website. Links to the texts will be provided on the course’s Canvas page.

  • Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
  • Joan Scott, Gender and the Politics of History
  • Edward Said, Orientalism
  • Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
  • Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
  • Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics
  • Nan Enstad, Cigarettes, Inc.
  • Hanan Hammad, Industrial Sexuality

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

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Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2021

Teaching at SFU in fall 2021 will involve primarily in-person instruction, with approximately 70 to 80 per cent of classes in person/on campus, with safety plans in place.  Whether your course will be in-person or through remote methods will be clearly identified in the schedule of classes.  You will also know at enrollment whether remote course components will be “live” (synchronous) or at your own pace (asynchronous).

Enrolling in a course acknowledges that you are able to attend in whatever format is required.  You should not enroll in a course that is in-person if you are not able to return to campus, and should be aware that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who may need class or exam accommodations, including in the context of remote learning, are advised to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as early as possible in order to prepare for the fall 2021 term.