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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 21H.931 (Spring 2004) 
  • Course Title:
  • Seminar in Historical Methods 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • History 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Anne McCants 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 21H.931 Seminar in Historical Methods



    Spring 2004




    Course Highlights


    This course features examples of student work and videos from two class sessions: one featuring a discussion of "The Middle Ages as Fantasy," and another on "The MIT Mix - or How Does a History Department Work?"


    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.


    Special Features




    Technical Requirements


    RealOne™ Player software is required to run the .rm files found on this course site.

     

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