Mar 28, 2024  
Fitchburg State University 2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
Fitchburg State University 2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIST 7450 - Historiography


3 cr.
Historiography or the historian’s craft is addressed by considering how a historian discovers facts and formulates them into hypotheses, how the historian’s craft has changed over the course of time; and how different historians handle the same era or subject matter. The course enables students to read a piece of secondary source writing and analyze the author’s perspective and biases, analyze and understand a primary source document, write a paper using primary source material, understand historians’work within their own historical era and appreciate the subjective as well as objective nature of historical research. In any particular semester, the instructor chooses one of two forms for the course : a) a survey and analysis of various historians’work, their approaches and their tools, or b) a study of historians’ methods and a research paper based on primary source research putting these methods into use.



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