HISTORIOGRAPHY: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
This seminar, which covers central themes and developments from 1607 to the present, will focus on the growth of national identity, the founding and preservation of the American republic, the crucible of slavery and its aftermath, the rise of the United States as a military and industrial power, and the struggle to create an inclusive society.
READINGS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
This seminar follows the contours of an advanced course in the development of Western Civilization. The seminar is divided into two segments: from antiquity to the Renaissance and from the Renaissance to the modern era. Readings will focus on principal themes and developments in the following areas or disciplines: political and social; economic; religious; scientific; diplomatic and military; intellectual and cultural.
READINGS IN WORLD HISTORY
While there will be appropriate selected readings taken from the classical civilizational cores of Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, China, and the Mediterranean, less studied areas (e.g., the Pre-Columbian Americas and Africa) will be examined as well. Much of the work will concentrate on the post-1500 world, generally—but by no means universally—agreed to be the true realm of global history. Political, social, economic, religious, and gender issues will be examined, with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural connections and patterns.
VISUALIZING HISTORY
Analysis of historical themes and topics (e.g., American immigration; 20th century American social and intellectual history; the Greco-Roman World; World Wars I and II) through readings, photography, painting, and film documentaries.
ORAL HISTORY: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Theme-based readings and practice in oral history (e.g., family history, labor and class history; gender history; African-American history; military history).
HANDLING HISTORY: MATERIAL CULTURE AND ARCHIVAL ANALYSIS
Theme-based or chronologically-based readings complemented by analysis of material culture and archival research (e.g., studies of the history of printing, deconstruction of broadsides, visits to the University Archives, lecturers from the Philadelphia Museum of Art).
M.A. IN HISTORY FOR EDUCATORS ONLY
CURRENT ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN TEACHING HISTORY
Critical examination of various pedagogies used in the middle and secondary school classroom (from instructivism through constructivism); analysis of character education, gender education, and multicultural education; practice in applying these pedagogies and topics to a specific historical theme.
HISTORY ELECTIVES: TITLES VARY
Samples include “George Orwell: The Man and His Times”; “The Ordeal of Total War: World War II”; “Fourteenth-Century England: Calamity and Creativity”; “China and Japan”; “The American Intellectual Tradition”; “Re-Imagining Colonialism and Imperialism”; “Madison and the Founding of the American Republic”; “Colonial Latin America.”
HIS/EDC HISTORY OR EDUCATION ELECTIVE (OPEN)
M.A. PROJECT IN HISTORICAL-PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH
M.A. IN HISTORY ONLY
HISTORY ELECTIVES: TITLES VARY
Samples include “George Orwell: The Man and His Times”; “The Ordeal of Total War: World War II”; “Fourteenth-Century England: Calamity and Creativity”; “China and Japan”; “The American Intellectual Tradition”; “Re-Imagining Colonialism and Imperialism”; “Madison and the Founding of the American Republic”; “Colonial Latin America.”
HISTORY ELECTIVES: TITLES VARY
See History 700 (or related course in another La Salle University Graduate program).
SEMINAR: INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION OF RESEARCH STRATEGIES PRESENTED IN CORE COURSES
THESIS DIRECTION I
Supervised research for students writing the M.A. thesis.
THESIS DIRECTION II
Supervised research for students writing the M.A. thesis.
