Course Form
(revised 8-2009)
I. Summary of Proposed Changes
Dept / Program History Prefix and Course #
Course Title Research Seminar: Britain 1500-1800
HSTR 418
Short Title (max. 26 characters incl. spaces) Britain 1500-1800
Summarize the change(s) proposed This is a request to consolidate two existing courses, and designate the resulting course as UG
II. Endorsement/Approvals
Complete the form and obtain signatures before submitting to Faculty Senate Office
Please type / print name Signature Date
Requestor: John Eglin 6.ix.2011
Phone/ email : john.eglin@umontana.edu
Program Chair/Director: John Eglin
Other affected programs
Deletion
Course Number Change From:
To:
Dean: Christopher Comer
IV. To Delete or Change an Existing Course
– check X all that apply
Title
Level U, UG, G
X
X From: U
To: UG
Description Change
Change in Credits
X
From:
To:
Repeatability
Cross Listing
(primary program initiates form)
Is there a fee associated with the course? No. Prerequisites None, but HSTR 341 or 342 recommended.
1. Current course information at it appears in catalog
( http://www.umt.edu/catalog )
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HSTR 418U W Research Seminar: Britain in the Long
Eighteenth Century. 3 credits. Offered spring alternate years. Permission of instructor required. Students will discuss specific issues in the historiography of the long eighteenth century in British history (c1660-1800) and produce research papers grounded in primary sources.
2. Full and exact entry (as proposed)
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HSTR 418UG W Research Seminar: Britain 1500-
1800. 3 credits. Offered spring alternate years.
Permission of instructor required. No prerequisites, but HSTR 341 or 342 recommended. Students will discuss specific issues in the historiography of the early modern period in British history (c1500-
1800) and produce research papers grounded in primary sources
3. If cross-listed course: secondary program & course number
4. Is this a course with MUS Common Course Numbering? If yes, then will this change eliminate the course’s common course status? Please explain below.
Course will maintain its current MUS number.
5. Graduate increment if level of course is changed to
UG. Reference guidelines at: http://www.umt.edu/facultysenate/Grad/UG.htm
(syllabus required in section V)
Have you reviewed the graduate increment guidelines? Please check (X) space provided.
Yes;
No.
Weekly readings for graduate students will consist of academic monographs in addition to the articles assigned to undergraduates, and they will submit short (500 word) reviews of these works (of the sort that would appear in an academic journal as short notices). They will be expected to produce a substantially longer (by 2000-3000 words) research paper of publishable quality on a well-framed, focused, and viable topic. Once co-convening is

permitted, graduate students will enroll in a concurrently offered course.
6. Other programs affected by the change
7. Justification for proposed change The current arrangement of two UDW courses in two different periods is not logistically feasible; a consolidated course would result in more regular offerings.
A UG designation will create another research seminar opportunity for graduate students, for whom there are currently very few research seminars offered, and none in European history.
V. Syllabus/Assessment Information
Required for new courses and course change from U to UG. Paste syllabus in field below or attach and send digital copy with form.
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J.A. Eglin -- Office LA 257A -- MWF 10-11AM, R 2-3PM or by appointment (x6755; john.eglin@umontana.edu
), or by happy accident
This class is an undergraduate/graduate research seminar ultimately aimed at producing polished historical writing grounded in primary sources. It meets the upper division writing requirement for history majors. It is primarily intended for students with some background in the period, and will allow these students to delve deeper into its historiographical debates, using both secondary scholarship and printed primary sources drawn from Early English Books Online (EEBO), and
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO), Electronic Enlightenment, the Old
Bailey Online, and other resources. For the most part, the topics we cover will be topics that you choose.
Readings for the course will be assigned week to week, and will be determined by the research topics that you choose. We will rely mostly on the Mansfield Library
Reserve system, EEBO, ECCO, JSTOR, and other online databases. You will need to become intimately familiar with these and other electronic resources. Typically, a week's reading will consist of a primary source selection together with one or two articles from academic journals, or chapters from scholarly books. Graduate students, in addition to these readings, will read either scholarly monographs or a range of supplementary articles and essays. Generally, these readings will be chosen by the presenter(s) for that week in consultation with the instructor. You will need to prepare the assigned readings before the seminar meets.
I have ordered Booth, Colomb, and Williams' The Craft of Research, which, although not specifically geared to historical research, is the best guidebook to research and writing that I have yet run across. Kate Turabian's Guide for Writers of Research Papers outlines the University of Chicago notation style, which is the preferred style not only in this department, but in the historical profession generally.

Attendance at all weekly sessions is mandatory. For undergraduates, grades will be determined as follows: 20% preparation and participation in seminar (including reading group meetings and presentations); 10% on the preliminary bibliography;
10% on the paper prospectus (1000 words in length), 20% on the draft research paper
(3000 words in length, exclusive of bibliography); and 40% on the final research paper (5000-6000 words in length, excluding footnotes and bibliography). NOTE:
These percentages only obtain if ALL written work is turned in. Failure to turn in any
written assignment will result in failure of the course. Late work will not be accepted except by prior arrangement (extensions will not be granted after the due date) for reasons that are verifiable and allowed under university regulations. Otherwise, all written work must be turned in on the due date, in class, and in person. History
Department policy does not allow incompletes to be granted for upper division writing
courses.
Graduate students will achieve 25% of their grade through preparation for and participation in seminar (including reading group meetings and presentations), 25% through the short reviews of weekly readings, and 50% through the research paper
(7000-10,000 words in length, exclusive of scholarly apparatus). As their research papers are expected to be of publishable quality, it will be particularly important for graduate students to formulate well-framed, focused, and viable research topics.
Although they are not required submit drafts, they will take an active role in the
“peer review” reading groups.
Written work will be evaluated, in roughly equal proportions and as appropriate, on the basis of (1) style: grammar, diction, voice, spelling, etc.; (2) argument: framing questions, considering counter-arguments, defending claims; and (3) sources: selection, analysis, use as evidence, documentation.
27 January. Course Introduction.
3 February.
Topics due. Library Electronic Resources tour.
10 February.
Preliminary bibliography due.
17 February.
24 February.
3 March.
Prospectus due.
10 March.

17 March.
24 March.
31 March. Spring Break. No seminar meeting.
7 April.
14 April.
21 April.
Draft papers due (hard copy to the instructor; electronic copies to reading group).
28 April.
Reading Group Meetings.
5 May. Final Session.
Final Research Paper due in LA 256 by 3 PM Wednesday 13 May.
VII. Copies and Electronic Submission
Submit approved original, a copy, and electronic file to o the Faculty Senate Office, UH 221, camie.foos@mso.umt.edu.