HI 500 Topics in History

This course is a graduate-level introduction to the historical discipline through the lens of a particular theme. The chosen theme will be one that has long engaged historians, such as liberty, justice, war, law, or power. By exploring this theme, students will learn to develop skills in historical perspective, investigation, and analysis. Particular attention will be paid to the ways the work of historians is tied to other disciplines in the humanities as well as the relevance of historical context to contemporary concerns. Specific topics will rotate, and the course may be taken more than once provided the student selects different topics. (3)