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Course
Prefix/Number:
Programmatic
Objectives Related
to this Course:
Student Learning
Outcomes:
General Outline of
Course Content:
HIST 3000
Course Title:
Historical Research Methodologies
Courses in the Department of History emphasize the following Programmatic Objectives:
1. Historical Knowledge: covering a range of historical information relevant to
historiography, focusing on the complex issue of historical causation.
2. Historical Thinking: emphasizing the complex nature of the past, appreciating the
diversity of situations, events, and past mentalities, and how change occurs over time.
3. Historical Skills: development of critical thinking, reading, and writing skills when it
comes to interpreting history.
This course will impart historical knowledge to introduce students to the basics of historical
research methods and historiography. More specifically, this course will examine history as a
scholarly discipline, giving particular emphasis to the examination of historical theory, concepts,
methodology, fields, and the history of historical thinking. This course will help to develop
students’ ability to think historically, recognizing and appreciating how historians have developed
the field of history into a scholarly field and appreciating the "historian's craft" of analyzing and
interpreting events of the past. An analytical research paper, with an emphasis on primary
source research, will require students to demonstrate their capacity to engage in historical
argumentation of a major theme of historical debate in an appropriate and valid fashion.
This course follows a thematic outline.
1. The importance and meaning of history
2. A history of the historic profession
3. Various schools of historical inquiry
4. Quantitative and qualitative research methods
5. The interpretation of primary/secondary sources
6. The art of historical narrative
Methods of Student
Assessment (e.g.
type, number,
percent):
Two (2) Research Journals (10% each, 20% total)
Two (2) Exams (Midterm, Final) (25% each, 50% total)
One (1) Research Paper (20% total)
Grade Scale:
A 100-94%
A- 93-90%
B+ 89-87%
B 86-83%
C 76-73%
C- 72-70%
D+ 69-67%
D 66-63%
Possible Text
(or other materials):
Anna Green. The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Theory
Marc Bloch. The Historian's Craft
Conal Furay. The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide
Other Information:
Areas in bold are required.
B- 82-80%
D- 62-60%
C+ 79-77%
F 59-0%