History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 202 History, Historical Practice, and Historiography
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM
This course is a reading course in history and theories about the writing of history, which for short we call “historiography”. Each week we shall read together and discuss the methodological and practical implications of the week’s text. Some of the authors are philosophers but others are historians who both write history but also think about what that means theoretically. We shall alternate between works by practicing historians and those by philosophers and theoreticians, who look at history from the outside as a discipline. The object is to refine our own theoretical apparatus by confronting the positions articulated in the books (and that includes mine) Each student, or possibly a pair of students, will take it in turn to lead the discussion and after the session will be expected to write a summary of the issues for circulation to other participants. In addition there will be a final essay in place of a conventional examination.
Course Syllabus (PDF)
