Fall 2018 - HIST 400 D100
Methodology (4)
Class Number: 5066
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Fri, 9:30 a.m.–1:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Paul Sedra
pdsedra@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 6226
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Prerequisites:
Admission to the honors program in history.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An advanced seminar on historical methods. Focuses on the identification and analysis of sources in preparation for writing the honours essay.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course introduces students to various analytical frameworks that have shaped contemporary historians’ work. 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 they are examining and the sources they are employing, particular problems of interpretation and representation arise time and time again among practitioners of the discipline.
Grading
- Weekly responses 25%
- Book review 25%
- Thesis proposal and annotated bibliography 30%
- Class participation 20%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
The Night Battles by Carlo Ginzburg
The Problem of Race in the 21st Century by Thomas Holt
Representations of the Intellectual by Edward Said
Sweetness and Power by Sidney Mintz
World Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein
The Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt
Selections will be posted to Canvas and/or put on reserve at the library.
Registrar Notes:
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