HIS-400 Seminar in Historical Methods 3 credits
Prerequisites: Senior standing
An introduction to select topics in the philosophy of history and historiography. Students will also prepare a major primary-source based research project. This examination will be designed to measure the full range of the history majors' knowledge and analytical skills.
HIS-480 Senior Thesis: historiography 2 credits
Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission
Students will research a major area of historical study and write a substantial evaluative essay on its historiography. The department must approve the topic.
HIS-481 Senior Honors Thesis: monograph 4 credits
Prerequisites: HIS-480
Students will research, write and present a scholarly paper on a topic of their choosing.
HIS-494 Independent Study 1 - 3 credits
Prerequisites: Permission
Reading or research in history as approved by the instructor. See independent study guidelines.
HIS-497 Internship 1 - 3 credits
Prerequisites: Permission
Individually arranged work designed to provide practical experience. An extended analysis of the experience is required and periodic reports may be assigned. See internship guidelines.
HIS-499T Special Topics in History 1 - 3 credits
See courses listed below.
HIS-499T.1 Research Seminar: Anglican Foreign Missions and the British Empire 2 credits
Prerequisites: Permission
This course will operate as an advanced-level research seminar. Students will work in primary sources, both printed and manuscript, to write and present short pieces of original research centering on the creation of religious and imperial ideologies of expansion, social transformation, race and rule in the British Empire, 1850-1920.
HIS-499T.2 Reading Seminar: Imperialism in Modern East Asia 2 credits
Prerequisites: Permission
This course will operate as an advanced-level readings seminar. Students will engage in intensive readings of some of the more influential secondary literature on imperialism in China, Japan, and Korea during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will be required to read at least one monograph each week and provide written and oral presentations on the readings.
HIS-499T.3 Reading Seminar: Society & Culture in Modern China 2 credits
Prerequisites: Permission
This course will operate as an advanced-level readings seminar. Students will read some of the more influential secondary literature on the social and cultural history of modern China. Students will be required to read at least one monograph each week and provide written and oral presentations on the readings.
HIS-499T.4 Reading Seminar: Society & Culture in Modern Japan 2 credits
Prerequisites: Permission
This course will operate as an advanced-level readings seminar. Students will read some of the more influential secondary literature on the social and cultural history of Japan from the Edo period through the early twentieth century. Students will be required to read at least one monograph each week and provide written and oral presentations on the readings.
HIS-499T.5 Reading Seminar: The Body in Chinese History 2 credits
Prerequisites: Permission
This course will operate as an advanced-level readings seminar. Students will engage in intensive readings of some of the more influential secondary literature on gender, medicine, and the body in Chinese history. Students will be required to read at least one monograph each week and provide written and oral presentations on the readings.