Edward Said, (Vintage, 1994) Orientalism. Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust (University of California Press, 2009) Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Arias, ed., (University The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy of Minnesota, 2001) David Blight, (Harvard, 2002) Race and Reunion Richard Evans, (Norton, 2000) In Defense of History Assignments and Grading: Since this class is a seminar, students are expected to complete all reading assignments on time (that is, before the class for which they are listed on the schedule below) and to participate actively in discussion. The course has three writing assignments, 8–10 pages each. For the first paper, you will come up with and answer a question that treats any single week’s readings from weeks 1 through 5; you may turn it in at any time on or before October 11. For the second paper, you will do the same for the readings for weeks 6 through 9; you may turn it in at any time on or before November 15. For the third paper, you will consider the ways in which people have sought to distinguish valid from invalid claims about the past as covered in the readings from weeks 10 through 14; it is due on December 16. Your final grade will be distributed as follows: 30% for class participation • 20% for the first paper [due by Oct. 11] • 25% for the second paper [due by Nov. 15] • 25% for the paper [due on Dec. 16] • If you must miss a class, you will be required to write a 5-7-page paper on that Attendance: week’s readings, to be submitted by the beginning of the next class meeting. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND ASSIGNMENTS Note: please read items in the order in which they appear below. Unit I: Historians’ Approaches Week 1, September 6 The History of History Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The Question” and the American “Objectivity whole book Historical Profession Week 2, September 13 Science as History Excerpts from Karl Popper, (New York: Basic The of Scientific Discovery Books, 1959) Kuhn, (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Re-read Novick, 298–301 and 524–35 That Noble Dream,
Edward Said, Orientalism. (Vintage, 1994) Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (University of California Press, 2009) Arias, ed., The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy (University of Minnesota, 2001) David Blight, Race and Reunion (Harvard, 2002) Richard Evans, In Defense of History (Norton, 2000) Assignments and Grading: Since this class is a seminar, students are expected to complete all reading assignments on time (that is, before the class for which they are listed on the schedule below) and to participate actively in discussion. The course has three writing assignments, 8–10 pages each. For the first paper, you will come up with and answer a question that treats any single week’s readings from weeks 1 through 5; you may turn it in at any time on or before October 11. For the second paper, you will do the same for the readings for weeks 6 through 9; you may turn it in at any time on or before November 15. For the third paper, you will consider the ways in which people have sought to distinguish valid from invalid claims about the past as covered in the readings from weeks 10 through 14; it is due on December 16. Your final grade will be distributed as follows: • 30% for class participation • 20% for the first paper [due by Oct. 11] • 25% for the second paper [due by Nov. 15] • 25% for the paper [due on Dec. 16] Attendance: If you must miss a class, you will be required to write a 5-7-page paper on that week’s readings, to be submitted by the beginning of the next class meeting. SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND ASSIGNMENTS Note: please read items in the order in which they appear below. Unit I: Historians’ Approaches Week 1, September 6 The History of History Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession whole book Week 2, September 13 Science as History Excerpts from Karl Popper, The of Scientific Discovery (New York: Basic Books, 1959) Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) Re-read Novick, That Noble Dream, 298–301 and 524–35
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