HST 500:
"Introduction to the MA Program
in History"
Thomas Luckett
Fall 2008
Mon., 5:30-9:10 PM
Cramer Hall 494
Blackboard
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this course.
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course.
Use of Blackboard is a requirement of the course.
If you are new to ODIN or Blackboard, the following links
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Course section information:
- HST 500, section TML, CRN 11505.
Course description: An introduction to the
professional study
of history and to the writing of the masters thesis. Intended for
new or recently entering graduate students in history. Weekly
readings
(to be discussed in class) will represent a variety of historical
schools
of thought. The principal writing assignment for the term will be
a thesis proposal, to be presented to the class. There will also
be a series of shorter assignments focusing on research skills.
Readings: Required readings include nine
books, available
through the Portland
State Bookstore and
on reserve
at the
Millar Library:
- Fogel, Robert W., Without
Consent or Contract: The
Rise
and Fall of
American Slavery (Norton, 1994) [ISBN: 0-393-31219-4].
- Geertz, Clifford, Negara: The Theatre State in
Nineteenth-Century
Bali
(Princeton UP, 1980) [ISBN: 0-691-00778-0].
- Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, The
Peasants of Languedoc, trans. John Day (Urbana: U of Illinois P,
1977) [ISBN: 0-252-00635-6].
- Lefebvre, Georges, Coming of the French Revolution,
trans. R.R.
Palmer (Princeton UP, 2005) [ISBN: 0-691-12188-5].
- McNeill, J.R., Something
New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century
World (Norton, 2000) [ISBN: 0-393-32183-5].
- Nash, Gary B., et al., History
on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (NY: Knopf,
2000) [ISBN: 0-679-76750-9].
- Pocock, J.G.A., The
Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic
Republican Tradition, 2nd edn (Princeton UP, 2003) [ISBN:
0-691-11472-2].
- Thompson, Edward P., Witness
Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (NY: New
Press, 1993) [ISBN: 1-56584-099-2].
- White, Richard, The
Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes
region, 1650-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991) [ISBN:
0-521-42460-7].
Contact Prof. Thomas Luckett:
- Office hours:
As chair of the History Department (starting 16 Sept) I have no regular
office hours, but
can usually be found in my office when I'm not in a meeting. If
you
would like to schedule a time to meet, please speak to the department
secretaries..
- Office phone:
(503) 725-3982.
- Email: see
faculty directory.
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