| COURSE SYLLABUS | |
| WEEK ONE | |
| August 29 | |
| › student profile |
Discussion: • What Is a University and Why Are You Enrolled in One? |
| › research proposal |
Video: Rockman, Seth. “What Is Historical Reasoning?” Brown University, August 2014. [up to 2:32]
Discussion: • How Is Knowledge Made? |
| WEEK TWO | |
| September 5 | |
| › research report 1 |
Reading: Postel, Charles. Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019. Pp. 3-13 (Introduction). |
| WEEK THREE | |
| September 12 | |
| › research report 2 |
Reading: Weld, Kirsten. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 1-26 (Introduction). |
| WEEK FOUR | |
| September 17 | |
| September 19 | |
| › research report 3 |
Reading: Ogle, Vanessa. “Whose Time Is It? The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s-1940s.” American Historical Review 118 (2013): 1376-1402. |
| WEEK FIVE | |
| September 26 | |
| › research report 4 |
Discussion: |
| WEEK SIX | |
| October 3 | |
| › research report 5 |
Discussion: |
| October 3 - October 6 | |
| WEEK SEVEN | |
| October 7 | |
| October 10 | |
| › research report 6 |
Discussion: |
| October 11-13 | “Fall Break” |
| WEEK EIGHT | |
| October 17 | |
| › research report 7 |
Discussion: |
| WEEK NINE | |
| October 24 | |
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Discussion: | |
| WEEK TEN | |
| October 31 | |
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Discussion: | |
| WEEK ELEVEN | |
| November 7 | |
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Discussion: | |
| WEEK TWELVE | |
| November 14 | |
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Discussion: | |
| November 15-17 | |
| WEEK THIRTEEN | |
| November 21 | |
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Discussion: | |
| WEEK FOURTEEN | |
| November 25-29 | Thanksgiving Break — no classes |
| WEEK FIFTEEN | |
| December 5 | |
| WEEK SIXTEEN | |
| December 12 | |
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Discussion: | |
| WEEK SEVENTEEN | |
| December 16-20 | FINALS WEEK |
| WEEK EIGHTEEN | |
| December 23-27 | GRADING WEEK |