History 4985 Course Calenda

History 4985

Course Calendar Fall 2013

Week	Activity	Assignment
One	Introductions	What is a historic perspective?

Two	Library Research --meet with Dr. Wade, Kotter Library 31 Stewart Library Resources
Three	Primary sources -- meet with Sarah Langsdon in Speical Collections
Four	individual appointments with MacKay
Five	Discussion of Why Study History? Discussion of Jones, "Assessing History" Discussion of completed assignments: Documentation/Research Quiz Cornell Library's Seven Steps of the Research Process Livermore Library's Research Review Quiz peer review of critique --bring 2 copies of draft to class (due: week five; final paper due: week six)	Documentation/Research Quiz Scholarly Critique: Choose an article on any history subject available from one of the electronic data bases and write a critique following this format: Critiquing a Scholarly Article
Six	Discussion of Gaddis: chapters 1-4 Discussion of Research Proposals problem statement and research questions some of major secondary works related to your problem where primary sources are located research methods/approach	Final draft of critique paper due
Seven	Discussion of Gaddis: chapters 5-8	First draft of Research Proposal due
Eight	Evidence project from History Matters Oral History Films Maps Numbers Letters & Diaries Advertisements Documentary Photography American Popular Song	Documentation quiz re-write due 1st oral presentation-- making sense of evidence students will provide a handout for all colleagues to include: short summary of topic examples what was most helpful; each oral presentations will be 5 minutes total time

Nine	Ethical Issues Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct from AHA Rampolla (Chapters 6, 7) From OWL at Purdue, Intellectual Challenges in America Academic Writing Ambrose From Slate from the New Yorker Bellesilles from History News Network his statement: NY Times Joseph Ellis from History News Network article from Chronicle of Higher Education Kearns Goodwin "How the Goodwin Story developed"	2nd oral presentation-- making sense of evidence students will provide a handout for all colleagues to include: short summary of topic examples what was most helpful; each oral presentations will be 5 minutes total time
Ten	individual appointments with MacKay
Eleven	Discussion of re-write choices -- references to Grammer Girl Discussion of the Ten Commandments of Good Historical Writing"	"baseball" paper re-write Writing rubric 2nd draft of research proposal due -- with signature of librarian or archivist
Twelve	Critiquing Internet Sources	3rd Oral Presentation - Internet Sources students will provide a handout for all colleagues to include: short summary of topic examples what was most helpful; each oral presentations will be 5 minutes total time
Thirteen & Fourteen	individual appointments with MacKay
Fifteen	Discussion of blbliography issues Film Analysis	peer review of lecture analysis (based on criteria suggested by NUS) --bring 2 copies of draft to class (final due Dec. 9 ) Draft of bibliography due -- peer reviewed 4th Oral Presentation - Film Analysis students will provide a handout for all colleagues to include: short summary of topic examples what was most helpful; each oral presentations will be 5 minutes total time

Finals Week - Dec. 9, 11:30
-- lunch is on MacKay
Restaurant 1107 --11th floor of Ben Lomand Hotel, 2510 Washington

oral presentations of research activities -- tell us your best story
Fnal research proposal due
Participation Statement due
Final Reflection Statement due
Final bibliography (with annotations) due (attached to Research proposal)