History Workshop

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is a requirement for - and open only to - History majors and minors. Designed as the gateway into the undergraduate history programs, History Workshop is a seminar that introduces students to how historians study the past by emphasizing active participation in the research and writing of history (not just reading what other historians have already written). Students gain insight into the nature of historical inquiry through discussion of how historians work, analysis of primary source documents from at least two different time periods and places, and, most importantly, their own efforts to write history via original interpretive historical essays.