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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Gastprof. Ph.D Mary Niall Mitchell Gastprof. Ph.D Mary Niall Mitchell

610011

Discourse/Identity: American Cultures: History Workshop: American Slavery

PS 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the basic tools of historical inquiry, research, writing, and analysis. We will do this by focusing on a particular theme in American history: chattel slavery. Alongside the published work of historians, we will delve into archival collections of primary sources from the colonial era through the 1930s. We will explore the craft of history both by using primary sources ourselves and by studying how historians use those sources for their own research and writing. As all historians working in the twenty-first century must do, we will familiarize ourselves with the research methods necessary in order to use digitized, archival, and published documents.

Active class participation, student presentations, reading and writing assignments, research paper

Anmeldungsvoraussetzung/en im BA: positive Beurteilung des Pflichtmoduls 19 Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): PS2: American Culture
Beginn: 9.3.2011