The 4000-Level Seminar serves as the capstone experience for all history majors. It includes readings and research in faculty specialties. In a seminar setting, students will investigate a broad topic, field, or period in history through intensive reading, research, and writing. Strongly emphasizes the examination and interpretation of primary and secondary sources, definition of a research topic, use of research methodology, and the understanding of issues and problems in research.
The History Department requires all majors to earn a C or higher in HIS 4100 in order to graduate with a degree in history.
Pedagogical Goals and Practice
Application of skills and abilities in research, analysis, and communication. Research methods include:
- identification, analysis, and use of primary and secondary sources
- written prospectus
- outline
- rough draft
- revision of rough draft
- historical narrative
- Chicago style documentation
- historiographical essays
- annotated bibliography
- oral presentations
- reading and writing book reviews
- identification and comparison of different interpretations
- application of theory
- use of interdisciplinary methods
- oral history
- critiques of classmates’ work
- editing
Men’s World Cup logos: 1970 to the present
