Spring 2011

CLASS SCHEDULE WILL BE COMPLETELY UP BY NEXT MEETING

1. Developing Your Proposal

 

Topic

Research Paper

History & Process

Reading/ Work Due Weds

#1
1/25

First Class

Curiosities

 

 

RESEARCH IDEAS

#2
2/1

Proposal & Primary Sources

Conception,  Design & Development

Primary & Secondary Sources

Turabian Easy Way: 106

Proposal and Library  

#3
2/8

Proposal & Primary Sources

Conception,  Design & Development

Library Research & Developing a Bibliography

The first reading is a short guide to searching for sources, I copied it as additional help as you are searching for sources. Regarding "Fischer's Fallacies," these are very useful. Read these, then reduce each to a few sentences, your own words, and we will discuss them in Wed's class.

Galgano, Hstory & Design

Fischer, Question-Framing

 

 

 

 

 

(Class Readng will be listed here by our second week 1/25)

II. The Texture of Individual Lives: History and Autobiography/ Personal Stories

 

Topic

Research Paper

History & Process

Reading/ Work Due Weds

#4
2/15

Reading Primary Sources

Begin Reading Your Prmary Sources (from your bibliography)

Questions & Evaluation of Primary Sources, Two Examples

Final Proposal Due

 

#5
2/22

Reading Primary Sources

 

Discussion, Primary Sources and Biography

Primary Research

Questions & Evaluation of Primary Sources

 Primary Source Reading

Proposal Critique and Primary Source Notes Due

Seminar Reading:

tba

#6
2/29

 

Primary Sources
Primary Source Reading
Primary Source Reading

Primary Source Reading

Primary Source Notes

Seminar Reading:

tba

#7
3/7

Primary Sources

Book Reviews

Choose Secondary Book from Proposal

Questions & Evaluation of Primary Sources

Turabian Made Easy, 13-40, 41-96

Primary Source Notes

#8

3/14

Primary Sources

 

Secondary Source Reading

 

Questions & Evaluation of Primary Sources

Primary Source Essay Due

 

 

#9

3/21

Monday-Midterm Appointments (in the office, 607 ST)

Secondary Source Reading

Reading and Reviewing Secondary Books

Secondary Source Reading (One Book One "Recent Article")

First Book Review Due

 

 

 

 

 

 

III. Secondary Sources:  Biography, Historiography & the Perspectives of Others

 

Topic

Research Paper

History & Process

Reading/ Work Due

#10

3/28

Secondary Sources, Book Reviews, and Historiography  

Reading and Reviewing Secondary Books

 

Secondary Source Reading (One Book One "Recent Article")

Reading in Historiography

Gilderhus on Speculative History

Gilderhus on Analytical History

Third Graded Book Review

#11
4/4

Spring Break

 

 

 

#12
4/11

Office Appointments

 

  Historiographic Essays

Fourth Graded Book Review and Articles Review

#13
4/18

Office Appointments

 

   

Historiographic Essay Due

 

 

 

 

 

IV. Writing, Presentation of Research & Rough Drafts

 

 

 

 

 

#14
4/25

 

Writing    

Historiographic Essay Due

OUTLINE

#15
5/2

Presentation of Research

   

Rough Draft Due

Presentations

 

#16
5/9

Presentation of Research    

Presentations

 

#17
5/16

      Final Paper Due by 5 PM (or before)