HIST390

Description

Course Description: The Thesis Forum is a class designed to support MA students as they go through the process of writing their MA theses. It meets every other week and is intended to be a two-course sequence, each semester worth .25 credit. Support consists of developing skills specific to writing history at the MA level and as part of an accelerated degree program. These skills include but are not limited to time management for a year-long project, developing a research question, finding primary and second sources, managing the ups and downs of the research process, putting together an historiography, working with bibliographic management software, and crafting strong prose. Support also includes presenting one's own work and providing constructive those of others. This class is meant to supplement, not supplant, the work MA students do with their advisors. Finally, because Honors students and MA students will meet together, the Thesis Forum provides MA students an opportunity to reflect on the differences between the BA and MA thesis and to mentor undergraduate Honors students.