Historical Method and Craft · History
We covered a great deal of ground, and I feel like I walked away with a more developed sense of broad developments in history as a discipline within the last few decades + a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that I was previously unfamiliar with.
I read some interesting texts that are quite canonic in the discipline of History. But overall I feel like I'm coming out of this course not having learned all that much.
Survey look into different methods of conducting history, focus on perspectives with some discussion of skills (archival research, oral history, mapping, etc)
-The Historical Craft and the Archive -Other historiographies (although briefly)
This class exposed us to a wide range of historical texts and the methdology used in writing about history.
It was rarely clear what we were actually meant to be learning from the readings in any given week, but sometimes the look at new perspectives was helpful.
This course basically walks through different "ways" to do history; I think the vast diversity of experiences of the students with respect to graduate work and history made it difficult for the course to cohere.
The craft and methods of being a historian -- thinking through issues related to the process of investigating a historical subject and writing about it.
It was a wonderful tour around the ways of doing history, especially in early modern Southeast Asia and France. Tonnes of lessons have been learnt.
I learned what my classmates are like. I learned about a handful of historical methods, such as microhistory, critical fabulation, and social history.