Development of American political institutions and the impact of major issues on American society and culture from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War.
Development of the modern American state and the impact of major issues on American society and culture from Reconstruction to the present.
A survey of the cultural, intellectual, political and socioeconomic developments of modern Western society, including the scientific revolution of the 17th Century, the Enlightenment, the age of democratic revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of nation-states, totalitarianism, two world wars, the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet system. Among the fundamental aims of the course is to identify the defining characteristics of different phases of Western historical development and to study the factors that precipitate long- and short-term historical change. The course is very broad in scope and seeks to provide students with a sense of how Western ideas, social relations and institutions have changed over time and how these changes are interrelated.
An introduction to the histories of China, Korea and Japan from the early 19th century to the present. This course will examine the experience of East Asian civilizations in their encounters with the West and the problems of modernization which followed. Despite their geographic proximity, China, Korea and Japan followed different patterns during much of their history and this course will seek to examine those patterns, with an explicitly comparative approach, in the intellectual, socioeconomic and institutional realms. Readings emphasize literature and historical documents in translation.
This course focuses on the interrelationships between the exercise of power and social and cultural formations in discrete historical contexts. Through the exploration of a specifically defined topic, students will examine primary source documents, historical arguments, and theory to critically assess the ways in which structures of power construct categories of difference in cultural and social terms as well as the evolution of these categories over time. Attention will be given to the ways that individual experiences are conditioned by these categories of difference in particular historical moments.
Throughout the twentieth century, local histories and historical sites conveyed dominant, settler colonial narratives, centering "heroic" white pioneers and elite, "leading" families. Yet over the last several decades, these interpretations have been challenged, as new generations of historians have exposed land theft, racism, and exclusion as key themes in local and state histories. This course provides students the opportunity to get out into the community to engage with local historical sites and institutions, to learn about the work they are doing to confront these histories, and to explore ways of bringing to light the experiences of more diverse communities and individuals, who have previously been overlooked or marginalized.
This course is an introduction to the history of the modern Middle East. It explores the history of two major empires – the Ottoman and the Iranian – from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The course studies the Ottoman Empire’s expansion, its engagement with the world economy, and the changing relationship between the state and its subjects. It includes the histories of the lands liberated following the Ottoman collapse, the European mandates, and the establishment of new countries in the region. The course also examines the economy, politics, and culture of Iran from the Safavid period to that of the Islamic Republic. The majority of the course pays particular attention to critical themes such as modernization, westernization, secularization, and colonization. It examines the emergence of nationalism, sectarianism, and constitutionalism, as well as the impact of the military, oil, and political religion on the region.
A semester-long study of topics in History. Topics and emphases will vary according to the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit with different topics. See the New and Topics Courses page on the Registrar’s webpage for descriptions and applicability to majors/minors in other departments.
This course involves students in the practice of public history. Students will plan three public history panels for the popular “History in the News” Series at the Willamette Heritage Center, which puts the news in historical and local perspective. Students select a topic of immediate interest and newsworthiness, identify and invite experts to a panel discussion, research scholarship on the subject, publicize the event, and write questions for the panel (moderated by Professor Dunlap and broadcast on WKMUZ). Previous panels have considered renaming historical monuments and Native mascots, the #MeToo movement, and reaction to the 2016 Presidential election.
This course will teach students how to identify and analyze reliable historical sources that can help make them make sense of this particularly turbulent moment in political and social history. Every week we will seek to more deeply understand a topic that has risen to prominence in our national conversation by reading historical evidence and contemporary works of history that help us put current events in an appropriate historical context.
This course introduces the student to the methodologies employed in the discipline of history. Particular attention is given to historical research process, the use of evidence, and the skills in historical writing. Designed to focus on discrete historical topics, the course also functions to introduce students to historical discourse and the ethical concerns of the historian.
This course provides an introduction to the history of ancient Greece, spanning a thousand years from the Bronze Age down to the time of Alexander the Great. Topics to be discussed include the interactions between Greece and other ancient civilizations, the origins and development of Greek city-states (especially Athens and Sparta), and the development of local and panhellenic identities. Within this historical framework, close attention will be given not only to political institutions but also to the social and cultural values that shaped them. Students will read a variety of ancient texts in translation, along with some modern scholarship; the emphasis will be on learning how to make critical use of sources to discuss and debate historical questions.
This course explores the history of Asian empires on the Silk Road such as the Tang dynasty and the Mongol empire. It focuses in particular on intercultural communication and exchange, considering the interactions between societies ranging from the Japanese islands to the steppes of Central Asia. Attention will be paid to significant religious and cultural developments shaping the history of the region, such as the expansion of Buddhism and the spread of a character-based writing system, as well as the evolution of relations between Asia kingdoms and their neighbors.
Covers ancient Near Eastern civilization from the Sumerian Ubaid culture ca. 6000 to the fall of the Neo-Assyrian empire ca. 600 BCE, encompassing Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia. We look at how the progressive discovery of the various civilizations of the ancient Near East through archeological excavation starting in the 1800s changed western scholars’ understanding of the past, and we examine critically the modern reception of the ancient Near East. Special attention is paid to the indigenous senses of history, both in scribal culture and in action, using, e.g., annals, dynastic lists, city laments, year names, monumental and artifact inscriptions (both genuine and ancient fakes), autobiographies (genuine and fake), treaties, diplomatic correspondence, stone reliefs and other monumental art and architecture.
This course is an introduction to the history of the Modern Iran from the 17th century to the present. Primary documents and secondary readings will give students a broad understanding of some of the principle forces that have shaped the contemporary society of Iran and its relationship with other countries, providing a framework for further study.
The main themes and problems that this course engages with include the power structure in different dynasties such as the Safavids, the Qajars, and the Pahlavis; the power and role of religion, especially Shi'a Islam, in Iranian society and politics; first contacts with the West; revolutions and constitutionalism; strategic geography of the Persian Gulf; and oil as the motor engine of economy and foreign affairs of the country.
This seminar investigates select approaches, themes, cases, episodes, movements and controversies within the past and current social history of public health. These include movements around race and reproductive justice, vaccination, disability, and LBGTQI+ health and rights. Utilizing both primary documents (such as personal accounts, prescriptive literature, and novels) and secondary scholarly sources, students will consider how an historical approach might shape current and future public health perspectives and efforts. Geographical, temporal, and topical focus will vary.
This lecture course surveys Ancient to Early-Medieval European Intellectual Thought by focusing on four major figures each of whom advances a distinctive way of being in the world: Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Augustine—seek, balance, retreat, and love, respectively. These figures and forms of life will be understood in relation to their immediate and unfolding aesthetic, cultural, social and political historical contexts, as well as in terms of their subsequent influences and contemporary relevance.
This lecture course surveys Late-Medieval to Renaissance European Intellectual Thought by focusing on four major figures each of whom advances a distinctive way of being in the world: Aquinas, Machiavelli, More and Montaigne—obey, force, share, and essay, respectively. These figures and forms of life will be understood in relation to their immediate and unfolding aesthetic, cultural, social and political historical contexts, as well as in terms of their subsequent influences and contemporary relevance.
This lecture course surveys Early-Modern to Modern European Intellectual Thought by focusing on four major figures each of whom advances a distinctive way of being in the world: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Hume—fear, appropriate, feel and doubt, respectively. These figures and forms of life will be understood in relation to their immediate and unfolding aesthetic, cultural, social and political historical contexts, as well as in terms of their subsequent influences and contemporary relevance.
This course provides an introduction to the history of ancient Rome, spanning the more than one thousand years from the founding of the city through the late imperial period. The class is structured around a series of problems and questions that will require you to formulate and evaluate historical arguments based on the close reading of ancient sources. Topics to be covered include the origins of Rome, it's growth from a small city-state to a world empire, and the relationship between this expansion and the development of both the Republic and the empire as political systems. We will also consider the impact of Roman rule on the populations of Rome and its provinces as well as selected aspects of Roman society and culture, including the household, the role of public entertainment, and the varieties of religious experience found within the Empire.
This course surveys the history of Europe in the 20th century. Focusing on social and political developments, it examines the phenomenon of nationalism, total war, the Russian Revolution, the Depression, the rise of fascism and bureaucratic collectivism, and the Holocaust. In the post-WWII period, the course will focus on the division of Europe and of Europe in the Cold War, the decline of the European empires and on the contradictory forces that are pushing Europe toward economic and political unity on the one hand (most markedly in the West) and toward dissolution and conflict (especially in the East).
This course surveys the transformation of Europe from a primarily rural to an overwhelmingly urban society. Why have cities come to dominate the European landscape? How have the functions of cities changed over time? How has the growth of cities impacted people's quality of life and how have cities managed the environmental, social, economic, and cultural challenges that expansion brought? What kinds of struggles played out in cities? To what extent are cities engines of change in shaping modern European society? The course will grapple with such questions by studying the histories of a selection of cities across Europe from the onset of the industrial revolution to the present.
A study of the history of Latin America from the pre-colonial period to independence. Emphasis will be placed on the development of Latin America's economy, culture and political life. Special attention will be given to the encounter between the Spanish conquistadors and indigenous peoples, as well as to the background of the movements for independence.
This course examines the significant social, political, economic and cultural developments in Latin America from the 19th century movements for independence through the 20th century. Special emphasis will be given to Mexico, Cuba, and Central America as well as selected South American states including Brazil. The role of the United States in the region will also receive much attention.
Since 1654, Jews have been a minority presence in America. This course surveys the Jewish experience from the colonial period through the late 20th century and places that experience in the larger context of American ethnic history. The various forms of Jewish identity--ethnic, cultural, religious, etc.--will be examined as they changed over time in response to experiences in America and in the larger Jewish world. Attention will be given to the impact of the successive waves of Jewish immigration on the American Jewish community, to regional variations in American Jewish experiences, and to the relationships between American Jewish communities and other ethnic/religious/racial minority communities, including recent debates over the evolving place of Jews in the American ethnic/racial hierarchy, often cast as the relationship of Jews to "whiteness."
This course introduces students to key sources, methods, and questions in U.S. women's and gender history. The course considers who and what defined what sex and gender should and could be, and the relationship of sex and gender to other systems of belief, belonging, labor, property, and power. How did gender shape people’s bodies, ambitions, and possibilities? How did gender systems affect historical processes such as colonization, enslavement, war, industrialization, emancipation, U.S. empire, and the social movements. How do historians research and narrate the past in ways that connect to the present, but also attend to the distinctions and alternatives of the past?
This course examines the social and cultural history of China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Topics include the political structures of imperial rule; the social and cultural institutions that organized local society; the economic trends that produced the pre-modern world's largest and most advanced civilization; and the ways in which all of the above were transformed by China's 19th-century encounter with Western imperialism. This period provides an excellent case study of nationalism and modernization in a non-Western context.
This course briefly reviews the arrival of cinematography to Middle Eastern countries such as Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt. Students will study the impact of Western films on Middle Eastern societies, the socio-political role of the film industry in Middle Eastern countries, and how films portray, interpret, and, at times, impact historical events such as revolutions and wars. Students will watch films, and read theoretical and historical texts for this course.
The Middle East is a diverse region. While enriching the culture, this diversity has become a cause of conflicts as well. This course examines the history of racial, religious, and ethnic minorities in the Middle East from the nineteenth century to the present. Its principlal focus will be the Ottoman Empire and Persia in pre-mandate period and Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan in the modern time. The course examines the history of slavery, non-Muslim communities, and the nomadic life of some ethnic groups. In addition, it introduces students to such theoretical concepts as national identity, imagined communities, othering, and the relationship between the center and the periphery. Supporting materials for the course will include an array of primary and secondary sources, as well as some films.
This course examines the history of modern Japan from the late Tokugawa period (1800) through the era of Imperial Japan (1868-1945). Topics include: imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries, state modernization efforts and popular responses, the Japanese colonial empire, and the Fifteen Years’ War (1931-1945). Course material will focus on the diverse perspectives and experiences of the Japanese people and colonial subjects.
This course focuses on the tumultuous years between 1911-1949, when China developed into a modern nation-state. Topics include: the political struggles behind the formation of the Republic of China; the intellectual and cultural revolutions of the May Fourth period; the development of an industrial economy; the rise of the Chinese Communist Party; the War of Resistance and civil war.
A semester-long study of topics in History. Topics and emphases will vary according to the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit with different topics. See the New and Topics Courses page on the Registrar’s webpage for descriptions and applicability to majors/minors in other departments.
This seminar course surveys Late-Modern European Intellectual Thought, reconciling the French Revolutionary legacy of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity,’ by focusing on five major figures each of whom advances a distinctive way of being in the world: Kant, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche—dignify, resist, synthesize, struggle and laugh, respectively. These figures and forms of life will be discussed in relation to their immediate unfolding aesthetic, cultural, social and political contexts, as well as in terms of their subsequent influences and contemporary relevance: cosmopolitanism, feminism, communitarianism, socialism and post-modernism, respectively.
The aim of this course is to study the life of a major historical figure. Through the use of biographical and autobiographical works, students will examine the subject's life, the historical context in which the person lived, and his or her historical significance. In addition to these aims, the course will also survey a range of biographical approaches.
This course will explore the major themes and debates in American immigration history. Topics will include key migration waves, immigration policy, acculturation and attitudes towards immigrants, with an emphasis on the post-Civil War period. Methodological issues in researching immigrant history will also be explored.
A study of the history of American law from its origins in the colonial period to its contemporary condition. This course will use the law that we study as a window on the economic, political and social forces that mold law and examine the role of law in American society. The ultimate objective is to come to some conclusions about the relationship between ourselves and our legal system.
This course is an introduction to the historical roots of sustainability design to examine the thought and practices which have marked interactions between humans and the environment in the West prior to 1600. Focusing on key moments that have contributed significantly to the current context--the transition to agriculture, classical Athens, the later middle ages, and the age of global commerce, colonization, and scientific progress--the course will analyze 'green' versus traditional histories, interpret data about resource use, and analyze primary texts that speak to the human-nature relationship. The course will challenge students to analyze the extent to which our current thought and practices have roots in the historical past, understand humans' relationship to the environment as integral to the narrative of history in the West, analyze traditional historical categories such as periodization, causation, and narrative structure, and use the lens of sustainability to examine how values shape historical narratives.
This course will examine the Barbarian invasions of Europe, the decline of the Roman Empire, the rise of Christianity and its new moral norms, institutions, and hierarchies, the Frankish Empire, and the threats of Byzantine, Moslem and Viking civilizations. Then it will trace, from the 11th through 14th centuries, the revival of economic and urban life, the Investiture Controversy, the 12th century Renaissance, the crusades, the rise of the feudal monarchies, Scholasticism, Gothic Art and Architecture and the increasing secularization of western Europe.
This course explores East Asian history through environmental perspectives, interrogating the relationship between humans and the natural environment as mediated by state and social institutions. It covers both the pre-modern and the modern periods, focusing on discrete case studies relating to different East Asian states. We explore the intersections of ecological history with social and economic development as well as examine the role of the state with respect to both regulating and exploiting natural and human resources. We also consider the philosophical and cultural factors which distinguish the Asian historical experience of environmental management.
This course explores the history of oil discovery and its impact on the Middle East from the early 1900s to present, including a general review of the mapping of the Middle East and the role of oil in the decisions on creating or dealing with each country since the British and French Mandate. The course employs an array of primary and secondary sources to help students analyze the cases from different angles.
The main themes and problems that this course engages are the role of oil in the economy, politics, culture, and foreign affairs of the Middle Eastern countries and the conflict related to oil. Examples include imperialism, global economy, wars, and western engagement with the oil empires.
Borrowing Judith Butler’s book title, the course examines concepts of gender and sexuality in the Middle East -emphasizing Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan -from the 19th century to the present. The course analyzes the impacts of imperialism, modernity and industrialization on the role of women in society, economy, culture and politics. At the same time, the students study the history of homosexuality and transsexuality in the Middle East from pre-modern to present time. Topics include revolution and resistance, feminism, women and gender in Islam, hijab and dress codes, gender in art and literature. The course employs theories on sexuality, citizenship, movement/non-movement and religious laws (Shari’a) to analyze the cases historically. The material includes primary and secondary sources, novels and films that represent the unheard population of the Middle East. No language proficiency or prerequisites are needed.
Archives, commonly only thought of as places of study, have become an object of study as archival authority and supposed “neutrality” have been contested over the past few decades. Archival collecting and practice is influenced by layers of political, social, cultural, and legal mediation. The purpose of the course is to introduce, examine and understand the principles, practices and current debates in the archives and manuscript profession. This course provides students with a critical understanding of how archives are formed and organized, and examines the influence of archival practices and policies on collective memory.
Topics to be announced. A thematic, general interest course in Latin American history offered when circumstances warrant. May be repeated if the topic varies.
Topics to be announced. A thematic, general course in American history offered when circumstances warrant. May be repeated if the topic varies.
A thematic, general interest course in European history offered when circumstances warrant. May be repeated if the topic varies.
Topic to be announced. A thematic, general interest course in East Asian history offered when circumstances warrant. May be repeated if the topic varies.
Topic to be announced. A thematic, general interest course in ancient Greek or Roman history. May be repeated if the topic varies.
Topic to be announced. A thematic, general interest course in ancient Greek or Roman history. May be repeated if the topic varies.
This course examines the experience of African Americans in the United States from 1619 to the end of the Civil War. Course topics will include the Atlantic Slave Trade, the relationship between slavery and racism, the development of free black communities in the North and South, slave religion, patterns of slave resistance and accommodation, the emergence of a shared African-American culture in the 18th century, and the African-American role in both the abolitionist movement and the Civil War.
This course examines the experience of African Americans in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. Course topics will include Reconstruction, the Jim Crow period, the Great Migration, the urban experience, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American leadership.
This course examines the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. Course materials explore the events of 1763 to 1789 from many different perspectives-as a set of diplomatic and military encounters which fractured a long-standing colonial relationship, as a pivotal moment in the history of Anglo-American political thought, as part of the expansion of a market-oriented economy in North America, and as a socially transformative event in the lives of the laboring men, women, African-Americans, and Native Americans who took part in the war. Students will engage with a wide range of primary and secondary sources which will enable them to assess in what ways the American War for Independence was or was not a revolutionary war.
In this course, students will engage with the environmental, political, social, and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. We will explore both what makes this region distinctive and what traits we share with other regions. Using both primary and secondary works, as well as theoretical approaches to the study of regions, we will seek to understand both the region in its historical context, as well as its relation to the nation and the world. We will be asking: Where is the "Pacific Northwest?" Who calls this region "home?" What draws people here? Why do we live as we do? How have people shaped and reshaped the environment within which we live? What does learning about this "place" teach us? What does our future portend?
The uniqueness of Russian civilization, the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. The emancipation period, revolutionary thought and action, the constitutional monarchy, the 1917 revolutions and the establishment of the Soviet regime, the development of agriculture and industry and the evolution of the Communist Party.
This course introduces students to the intellectual culture of the Middle Ages through engagement with major texts and authors from the period (ca. 400-1500) including Boethius, Abelard, Aquinas, Maimonides, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Mechtild de Magdburg, the Gawain poet, et Meun and de Lorris, Dante, and Christine de Pisan. Drawing on a diversity of genres, including philosophical treaties, poetry, literature, romances, confessions, short stories, and mystical journeys, the course will explore medieval articulations of the ultimate good, the relationship between reason and passion, and the nature of knowledge and love.
This course will explore the history of women in the European Middle Ages and examine the ways in which European medieval culture represented and constructed gender through its institutions, cultural symbols, and literary texts. The course will focus on primary texts by and about women, including devotional and courtly literature poetry, philosophy, hagiography, and essays. Through these readings we will explore topics such as how medieval people viewed the physical body and constructed the social bodies of women and men; the way in which the realities of women's daily lives shaped cultural representations of the female; how representations of sexuality and desire, new conceptions of reason and nature, and new forms of women's religious life shaped the religious and secular literature of the period; and how court culture, crusades, and inquisition practices contributed to medieval constructions of male and female identities.
This course studies the history of capitalism from its origins in the Middle Ages to the present. Drawing on a wide variety of materials, including recent historical texts, primary sources, film, and fiction, it examines the emergence of the capitalist order in Europe, its expansion into a global system, and its impact on the social hierarchy, intellectual life, politics, and the environment.
Topics will be announced. A thematic, general interest course in comparative history offered when circumstances warrant. May be repeated if the topic varies.
This course surveys the history of the European socialist movement from the eighteenth-century to the present, examines the ideas of the utopian socialists, the development of Marxism, and the relationship of Marxism to other schools of socialist and radical leftist thought. The course studies the development of socialist ideas and the socialist movement in the context of the process of industrialization and social change that has transformed society in the last two centuries. While the emphasis of the course is on European socialist history, time will also be devoted to the prospects for socialism in the new century.
Examination of the major events which took place during Mao's era, 1949-1976, and political and economic reforms during Deng Xiaoping's era. The issues will be focused on the structure of the CCP, its ideology, its left-oriented policies, its foreign policies and the power struggles within the leadership. Assessment of the role of Mao Zedong will provide a basis for understanding Chinese politics and society.
Why does democracy fail? How does authoritarianism arise? This seminar course explores several competing explanations for the failure of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and for the consolidation of the Nazi Third Reich (1933-1945). To do so, it considers evidence in salient primary source texts, film, art and imagery (all in translation), and engages with relevant secondary scholarship. Ultimately, in exploring the particular historical record, this course seeks insights into the constitutive elements of democracy in general at the political institutional, socio-cultural, and personal cognitive levels, and lessons about what makes democracy alternately vigorous or vulnerable. Students will lead discussion, take exams, and write a research term paper.
This course surveys the making of modern Germany from the creation of the Hohenzollern Empire under Bismarck until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. It examines the key social, economic, cultural, and political developments that led to the Empire's collapse at the end of the First World War, the founding of the Weimar Republic, and the rise and fall of Nazism.
This course examines Germany's socioeconomic, political and cultural development during the Cold War. It examines the division of the country following the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, the emergence of the capitalist Federal Republic in the West and the communist Democratic Republic in the East, and the factors that led to the collapse of the East and national reunification in 1990. The course raises questions about the essential features of "democratic capitalism" and "totalitarian-socialism," and it sets the German experience in a broad European context.
The Internship in the Department of History is designed to allow students to have the opportunity to work in a local museum or archive, at a local historical site, or with other organizations engaged in projects of a historical nature. The course allows students the opportunity to explore the kind of work that professionals in the field do, while assisting a local heritage organization in their work.
The Internship is completed under the guidance of the director of the program. Students may take this course for either 2 or 4 semester hours. Students completing the 2 semester hours option complete 3-8 hours a week at the Internship site, remain in regular communication with the Internship director, and complete a report on their experience. Students completing the 4 semester hours option complete at least 10 hours a week at the Internship site, remain in regular communication with the Director, and complete a major project or paper upon completion. The course may not be taken for more than 4 semester hours in History.
A semester-long study of topics in History. Topics and emphases will vary according to the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit with different topics. See the New and Topics Courses page on the Registrar’s webpage for descriptions and applicability to majors/minors in other departments.
A semester-long study of topics in History. Topics and emphases will vary according to the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit with different topics. See the New and Topics Courses page on the Registrar’s webpage for descriptions and applicability to majors/minors in other departments.
A special topics course to be offered when circumstances warrant, focusing on a particular problem or issue in modern European history in accordance with the faculty member's special interest and area of expertise. May be repeated if the topic varies.
Major trends, assumptions and problems in the writing of European and American history as related to the changing intellectual milieu from the Enlightenment to the present.
Special topics course to be offered when circumstances warrant, focusing on a particular problem, issue or theme in American history in accordance with faculty interest and expertise.
A special topics course to be offered when circumstances warrant, focusing on a particular problem or issue in either Chinese or Japanese history in accordance with the faculty member's special interest and area of expertise.
This course aims to build students' skills as social historians through the development of archive-based projects focusing on Salem/Oregon. Students will explore issues in the practice of local history, be introduced to key historical themes and resources, and develop individual research questions. Students will form a research community as they explore their topics using archival sources. Each student will produce a paper that features critical analysis of archival sources and places his/her research in the context of existing scholarship. Findings will be shared in written and oral form with local historical institutions, such as the Willamette Heritage center. Although this course is open to other students, senior history majors may use this project to fulfill their senior experience requirement.
Directed reading and/or research in some aspect of American history for advanced students. Open only to juniors or seniors who have completed two credits in American history.
Directed reading and/or research in some aspect of European history for advanced students. Open only to juniors and seniors who have completed 8 semester hours in European history.
The History Senior Tutorial consists of a program of directed reading, research and writing in an area or topic of the student's own choice, in consultation with members of the department. As the tutorial is the culmination of the student's History major, it is expected that the tutorial topic will be from the student's area of concentration within the major and will build on course work completed by the student in that area. The tutorial project may be a research project involving the use of primary and secondary source materials, or a project that is a historiographical in nature.
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