W 7 pm, Coleman 2750
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/syllabi/5250.htm
Syllabus as pdf (brief version)
- Seminar members are expected to participate (20%) in both online discussions and in class discussions (both will be graded, but lowest grades dropped), as well as give research reports.
- Written work assessment is based on
- four response essays (20%, see below),
- lead-up to research paper assignment (20%, including reports on EEBO, newsbooks, and research bibliography),
- a critique of peer's hypothesis and outline (5%), and
- an original source research paper (40%).
- Research paper will use pamphlets from Early English Books Online to analyze the documents of one particular aspect of the English Revolutions, 1640-89 and compare it with a similar aspect of any other 17th-century rebellion or revolution, in order to evaluate the use of (a) the theories of revolution, (b) the historical approaches to specific revolutionary moments. In other words, it asks for both a historiographical and a comparative perspective. Most will contextualize (in the broadest sense) some aspect of the trial of Charles I.
- Reading is somewhat extensive and very intensive. Take notes. An annotated bibliography on some of the readings above is required.
- For Response essays (typed double-spaced; 550 words maximum) respond to the quote for that week (thinking about the readings and subject for that week) and bring your response to class for discussion. Each essay should:
- discuss and position two of the week's readings in relation to the quote;
- express a point of view (that is position yourself);
- use at least one piece of evidence (may be a primary-source quoted by one of the other historians) to back that position; and
- suggest the type of evidence that might be investigated to substantiate your position further. You may focus on one aspect of the quote (but read the whole).
