JS 309 - The Historian’s Craft: Theory and Methodology from Antiquity to the Present

This is a course that emphasizes the reading of key and well written texts by historians who use an interdisciplinary lens to study the way we talk about and understand the past today. It will analyze and discuss in chronological fashion
selected models of historical literature and historical thinking from Antiquity to the Modern Era. Study of these texts will focus on themes, methodologies, styles, and approaches to the past, not on the memorization of facts and details.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only

LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar

Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: History

This course is not open to students who have taken HI-393.