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CLASS PARTICIPATION. Because this course is an intensive seminar, its success depends on your regular attendance and your active and civil participation in discussion of the readings. You should every week be prepared to make specific, thoughtful, and well-informed contributions to discussion. This class is being held in conjunction with a parallel class led by Prof. Roberta Pergher, each with half of the cohort of first-year graduate students. We are aiming to hold at least one joint session. READING ASSIGNMENTS. Weekly reading will feature recent and/or canonical books and articles from diverse fields of history, as well as related academic disciplines. We will interrogate the readings for how they create conceptual, methodological, analytical, and empirical value, and for how they aspire to “best practice.” Weekly readings can be found as ebooks via IUCAT, and/or under Files in Canvas. Given the current and ongoing pandemic/caregiving/economic crisis, there is no requirement to purchase books. Please do not retrieve or recall course books from the IUB library, as the H601 course instructors may be using those for scanning purposes. If you find yourself needing or wishing to order any books, you might consider utilizing Bloomington’s independent bookshop: Morgenstern Books.
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS. There will be weekly response papers to the readings, to be submitted via Canvas before noon on Tuesdays (enabling me to read them prior to our late afternoon class session). There will be one book review (approximately 1000 words) of a particularly significant book in your main field of study, for which you will make a case for why its significance is so notable that the book should be read by historians outside that field. There will be one historiographical essay (approximately 3000 words) related to your main research interests. The essay should examine at least 5-10 crucial (not merely useful) texts that help define a vital historical problem and constitute the current status of historical research concerning it. ASSISTANCE. If at any time during the semester you have questions about the course or your performance in it, please feel free to email for a virtual appointment. If you have a disability or learning disability, please provide the professor with official written notification from the Office of Disability Services for Students (Wells Library Suite W302) as soon as possible so that any necessary accommodations can be made. International students may find resources at the Office of International Services (Poplars 221, 400 E. Seventh Street). |