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HIST 505 Historical Methods


This course encompasses training in research strategies appropriate to a variety of historical resources, as well as instruction in the skills necessary for communicating the results of such research. A workshop approach offers discrete units in library and archive investigation, demographic and cartographic techniques, and oral and local history, culminating in a research paper.

Credit 3 hrs
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Every other Fall (in-person/hybrid, hyflex, or online)

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Additional Information - Graduate courses (open to candidates for the M.A. in history or social science, and to students from other disciplines, who wish to take cognate hours in history).

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Course History -
Change to course rotation 3/2019, effective Fall 2019; Course Rotation added 1/2015


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