Tentative Schedule

Part one of a two-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students during the second year of the program; not required for M.A. students. Includes primary research and writing a research paper, often related to a future dissertation topic.

Restriction: Graduate students only. History Majors only.

This course introduces graduate students to some of the most foundational ideas and debates that have shaped historiographical practice over the past half-century. Surveying historiographical models or theoretical provocations that have commanded the attention of a broad range of historians working across the various subfields, this course explores questions at the heart of the historical discipline, including: what is time and how, exactly, do historians grapple with issues of change or continuity? How do historians establish temporal and spatial boundaries for their narratives, and how those choices reflect different theoretical and interdisciplinary interventions? And how do historians approach primary materials to understand experiences of difference and embodiment? Though not an exhaustive survey, the readings raise fundamental questions about how historians imagine the past as they try to write about it, how they constitute it as a domain of study, how they can claim to know it, and how (and why) they argue about it. The aim of the course is to explore these questions as clearly as possible and to encourage you to make your (provisional) answers to them as explicit as you can. 

 History in the Professions

Part one of a three-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students during their first year of the program. History in the Professions is a year-long colloquium for first year graduate students. Students, faculty members, and guests will gather for 90-minute sessions five times each quarter for a variety of presentations, hands-on workshops, and guided explorations. This colloquium centers conversations and topics that illuminate the hidden curriculum of graduate school, explore the political economy of labor in the university, and provide students a foundational introduction to the historical profession. 

Restriction: Graduate students only. History Majors only. 

Introduction to historical methodologies and preparation for the first-year research paper. Required of all first-year doctoral students and M.A. students.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Restriction: Graduate students only. History Majors only.

Part two of a two-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students. Taken during the second year of the Ph.D. program; not required for M.A. students. Includes primary research and writing a research paper, often related to a future dissertation topic.

Prerequisite: HISTORY 204A. HISTORY 204A with a grade of B- or better

Restriction: Graduate students only. History Majors only.

Part two of a three-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students during their first year of the program. History in the Professions is a year-long colloquium for first year graduate students. Students, faculty members, and guests will gather for 90-minute sessions five times each quarter for a variety of presentations, hands-on workshops, and guided explorations. This colloquium centers conversations and topics that illuminate the hidden curriculum of graduate school, explore the political economy of labor in the university, and provide students a foundational introduction to the historical profession. 

Restriction: Graduate students only. History Majors only. 

Research and writing of a paper demonstrating command of historical methods explored in HISTORY 202A. Required of all first-year Ph.D. students and M.A. students.

Prerequisite: HISTORY 202A. HISTORY 202A with a grade of B- or better

Repeatability: May be taken for credit 1 times as topics vary.

Part three of a three-quarter sequence required of all Ph.D. students during their first year of the program. History in the Professions is a year-long colloquium for first year graduate students. Students, faculty members, and guests will gather for 90-minute sessions five times each quarter for a variety of presentations, hands-on workshops, and guided explorations. This colloquium centers conversations and topics that illuminate the hidden curriculum of graduate school, explore the political economy of labor in the university, and provide students a foundational introduction to the historical profession. 

Restriction: Graduate students only. History Majors only.