Seminar in Historical Methods
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- Category: History
Artist's rendering of a medieval aura, originally from NASA's Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Image courtesy of NASA.)
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Bump it!Course Description:
This course is designed to acquaint students with a variety of approaches to the past used by historians writing in the twentieth century. The books we read have all made significant contributions to their respective sub-fields and have been selected to give as wide a coverage in both field and methodology as possible in one semester's worth of reading. We examine how historians conceive of their object of study, how they use primary sources as a basis for their accounts, how they structure the narrative and analytic discussion of their topic, and what are the advantages and drawbacks of their various approaches.
Course Link:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-931-seminar-in-historical-methods-spring-2004/
- School: MIT
- Area Of Study: History
- Degree Program: Bachelors Degree
- Fee/No Fee: No Fee
