HISTORY METHODOLOGY

This is an introductory historical methods seminar involving students in identifying, understanding, and utilizing conceptual building-blocks of comparative historical analysis. Comparative History is rooted in a larger scholarly discipline whose elements, methodologies, and divergent philosophies will be touched on. Notions of historical stages, social classes and power structures, ideology, and identities (such as race, class, gender, nationality, etc.) will be examined. There will be an identification of different areas in the discipline – such as political history, intellectual history, cultural history, economic history, social history.