HIST 373 Research and Writing in History

Prerequisite: Open to history majors with at least sophomore standing and HIST 217 or HIST 218 or AFHS 257 plus another history course. An introduction to historical method, including historical argumentation, evidence, documentation and archival research. Each student researches local or family history, using original sources from archival collections. As the entry into the major, the course is for second-semester sophomores, first-semester juniors, and new transfer students.