Round and Square: HIST 190: Historical Research Methods Syllabus, Autumn 2018 (b)

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Weeks 1-8 Weeks 9-16

Method and Theory in History
(History Workshop)
History 190
Autumn 2018
Tuesday and Thursday
7:10-10:00 p.m.

Robert André LaFleur Office Hours:

Morse Ingersoll 206 Tuesday 4:00-5:30
363-2005 Thursday 4:00-5:30

lafleur@beloit.edu ...or by appointment

Required Books

Becker, Howard. Tricks of the Trade.
Booth, Wayne. The Craft of Research.
Duby, Georges. History Continues.
Green, Anna and Kathleen Troup. The Houses of History.
Larson, Erik. Devil in the White City.
Lin, Jennifer. Shanghai Faithful.
Presnell, Jenny. The Information-Literate Historian.
Raab, Nigel. Who is the Historian?
Peacock, James. The Anthropological Lens.

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Research notebook (preferred copies available at the bookstore)
Chicago Manual of Style Guidelines (available at the bookstore)

Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogspot.com)

The New York Review of Books (NYRB)

Readings Available in .pdf Format
Geil, William Edgar. Adventures in the African Jungle Hunting Pigmies (1917).
Geil, William Edgar. China's Sacred 5 (1926).
Geil, William Edgar. The Isle That Is Called Patmos (1896, 1904).
Stead, William T. William Edgar Geil: The Missionary Missioner (1910).
Wilson, William Whitwell. An Explorer of Changing Horizons (1927).

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Doylestown Historical Society Geil Exhibit (2010)
Newspaper Articles with a Geil Focus

Reserve Books

All books are on library reserve.

Course Description

This course acquaints students with the different approaches to writing history by providing samples of the various ways in which historians (and non-historians) have treated problems in the past. The class also aims to give students experience doing history by working with various kinds of sources. Finally, the course seeks to excite students about the field of history by addressing the issue of why someone would want to become an historian. This course is required for all history majors, who should complete it by the end of their sophomore year or before they declare a major.

Evaluation

Quizzes 10% Every Session

Research Proposal Letter 15% Week Five
Exam I 10% Week Seven

Research Proposal (Skeletal Version) 15%        Week Ten
Exam II                                              10%    Week Fifteen
Presentation                                          10%        Week Sixteen
10,000-word Research Proposal           30%        Finals Week

Class attendance and participation is expected.

See my class attendance and participation policy.

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

Students with diverse learning styles and needs are welcome in this course.
In particular, if you have a physical, psychological, medical, or learning disability or health consideration that may impact your coursework and/or require accommodations, please feel free to approach me and/or the Learning Enrichment and Disability Services (LEADS) located on 2nd floor Pearsons (north side), 608-363-2572, learning@beloit.edu, or make an appointment through joydeleon.youcanbook.me. LEADS will work with you to determine what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. Contact that office promptly, however, since accommodations are not retroactive. Every effort will be made to give you agency over disclosure of your disability status. Confidentiality is maintained to the extent possible but at times others need to know to some information to provide you appropriate accommodations.

HIST 190
Historical Research Methods (History Workshop)
Autumn 2018

Week IX

(October 23, 25)

See my class attendance and participation policy.

Tuesday, October 23
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus

Raab, What is the Historian?
The Spaces in Which We Work
The Sources We Use
The Web of the Historian's Work
The Historian in the Digital Age
The Skill Set of the Historian
History, the Historian, and the Humanities
Thursday, October 25
Geil, Ocean and Isle
Table of Contents (read carefully)
All 100 Photographs (look through them all)
Doylestown Historical Society Online Archive
Work through the DHS website, and check the DVDs on library reserve if you wish. Work systematically (as we have done in class), and save files you might need for your final proposals onto a disk you can access while writing. If you are "done" with Geil, let me know about where the rest of your research is going. Whether or not you are using DHS, search specifically for research items for your own proposal (think of Presnell's book; use "everything"). Send me an e-mail by 11:00 p.m. telling me how the process went.

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Make sure that you read the Research Proposal (Skeletal Version) Assignment
(due on Sunday, November 4 by 5:00 p.m.—hard copy in my office, MI 206)

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

Week X

(October 30, November 1)

See my class attendance and participation policy.

Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Tuesday, October 30
Lin, Shanghai Faithful
Part I—Foreign Ghosts
     Cook: Fujian Province, Mid-1800s
   Doctor: Fujian Province, 1890
     Firstborn: Fuzhou, 1907
Part II—Patriots
     Light and Truth: Shanghai, 1913
   A Modern Man: Aboard the SS Nanking, 1918
     A Second Daughter: Fuzhou, 1920
   Running Dog: Fuzhou, 1924
     Alma Mater: Fuzhou, 1928
Part III—A House Divided
     Watchman Nee: Shanghai, 1932
   Island of Shanghai: Shanghai, 1937
   Bund to Boardwalk: Shanghai, 1949
Part IV—New Order
   American Wolves: Shanghai, 1950
     Missing: Shanghai, 1955
   Prelude: Shanghai, 1957
Part V—Bad Elements
     Lane 170: Shanghai, 1966
   Yellow Music: Shanghai, 1968
     Barefoot Doctor: Jilin Province, 1969
   Passages: Shanghai, 1971
     Father, Hello! Shanghai, 1972
   Lost: Jilin Province, 1973
Part VI—Revival
   Faith: Fuzhou, 2015

Thursday, November 1

Geil, A Yankee on the Yangtze

Table of Contents (read carefully)

All 100 Photographs (look through them all)
Doylestown Historical Society Online Archive
Work through the DHS website, and check the DVDs on library reserve if you wish. Work systematically (as we have done in class), and save files you might need for your final proposals onto a disk you can access while writing. If you are "done" with Geil, let me know about where the rest of your research is going. Whether or not you are using DHS, search specifically for research items for your own proposal (think of Presnell's book; use "everything"). Send me an e-mail by 11:00 p.m. telling me how the process went.

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Make sure that you read the Research Proposal (Skeletal Version) Assignment
(due on Sunday, November 4 by 5:00 p.m.—hard copy in my office, MI 206)

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

Week XI

(November 6, 8)

See my class attendance and participation policy.

Tuesday, November 6
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Larson, Devil in the White City

          Prologue: Aboard the Olympic
Part I: Frozen Music
          Part II: An Awful Fight
          Part III: In the White City

Part IV: Cruelty Revealed

Epilogue: The Last Crossing

Notes and Sources

Bibliography

Thursday, November 8

Geil, A Yankee in Pigmy Land

Table of Contents (read carefully)
All 100 Photographs (look through them all)

Doylestown Historical Society Online Archive
Work through the DHS website, and check the DVDs on library reserve if you wish. Work systematically (as we have done in class), and save files you might need for your final proposals onto a disk you can access while writing. If you are "done" with Geil, let me know about where the rest of your research is going. Whether or not you are using DHS, search specifically for research items for your own proposal (think of Presnell's book; use "everything"). Send me an e-mail by 11:00 p.m. telling me how the process went.

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Make sure that you read the Research Proposal Assignment
(due on Tuesday, December 18 by 5:00 p.m.—hard copy in my office, MI 206)

Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.

Week XII

(November 13, 15)

See my class attendance and participation policy.

Tuesday, November 13
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Becker, Tricks of the Trade

Tricks
          Imagery
          Sampling
          Concepts
           Logic
Thursday, November 15
Geil, The Great Wall of China
Table of Contents (read carefully)
   All 100 Photographs (look through them all)
Doylestown Historical Society Online Archive
Work through the DHS website, and check the DVDs on library reserve if you wish. Work systematically (as we have done in class), and save files you might need for your final proposals onto a disk you can access while writing. If you are "done" with Geil, let me know about where the rest of your research is going. Whether or not you are using DHS, search specifically for research items for your own proposal (think of Presnell's book; use "everything"). Send me an e-mail by 11:00 p.m. telling me how the process went.

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