HIST 601 Historical Analysis and Methodology
This course introduces graduate students to perennial issues and contemporary trends in the academic study of history. It examines the issues of bias and objectivity, the relationship of ideology to social science, and the fructification of historical writing by borrowing from other social sciences. It explores the relationship of theory, generalization, and historical practice. It examines the use of quantitative and qualitative historical evidence. The course aims to make its participants more analytically acute readers and writers of historical works.