GPOL 6134 -

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The New School

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Historical Methods & Sources: Latin American History Spring 2009. Three credits. Paul Ross Historical Methods and Sources consists of two linked seminars designed to orient students to historical inquiry and equip them to undertake the writing of an MA thesis on a historical topic. This course has three specific goals: to develop fluency in several current models of historical practice; to develop practical skills for locating and interpreting primary historical sources; and to compose a proposal for an MA thesis that will be completed during the second semester of the two-semester sequence. With these goals in mind, the midterm assignment is a ten page "document collection" essay requiringstudents to collect, paraphrase, and contextualize five historical documents gathered from New York City libraries or archives. The final paper is a thesis proposal: a 15 page document sketching out the student's topic and preliminary hypothesis, as well as the student's sources and their locations. Weekly readings from the instructor's area of expertise (Latin American history) are chosen to illustrate essential genres of historical writing (e.g. cultural, social, political, diplomatic, women's history) and theoretical perspectives (e.g. Habermasian histories of public spheres, Foucaultian histories of crime and punishment). The course is not intended as a survey of the historiography of Latin America, but to provide a sampling of important trends. Please note: the written work in this class will deal with topics from students' own areas of interest, and will not necessarily correspond to the course's thematic emphasis on Latin America. This course fulfils the qualitative methods requirement for an MA in political science. This course is the first of two seminars (with a single course number) meant to be taken during a student's second year in the Historical Studies MA program. This course is also a requirement for PhD students who enter the joint doctoral program in Historical Studies without having been in a master's program at The New School for Social Research. Students register for the fall and spring sections of the course separately. The fall section of the course is a prerequisite for the spring section. Cross listed as GHIS 6133.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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