Location:

Morisset Hall, Simard Hall

Session:

2025 Trimestre d'hiver | Winter Term

Faculty:

Faculté des arts / Faculty of Arts

Unit:

Department of History_Part Time Professors

Course Title:

From Source to Text

Course Code:

HIS3105

Section:

B00

Course Description:

Historians extract useable information from often fragmented material created for various other purposes. This course will provide students with the tools needed to handle specific types of sources (textual, visual, oral or material) or introduce them to specific methods and approaches (such as geographic information system, quantitative methods, micro-history etc.) Topics will vary from section to section and the course can be repeated for credit if the content is different. Reserved for the students registered in the Honours, Joint Honours, Major in history.

Source to Text: Primary Source Lab Through Case Studies

In this class, students will study primary sources and consider their context and how to use them systematically to create text. Students will explore government and private archival records, newspapers, mail-order catalogues, film, photographs, court documents, memoirs, maps, material culture, and oral history as well as secondary sources. We will approach this work by considering the role of archivists, those who care for, collect, and manage primary sources and historians and we will also the role of curators, knowledge, and memory keepers. We will also look broadly at what we can learn about the past regarding public history, Indigenous history methodologies, microhistory, and the practice of history from a transnational perspective.

Posting limited to:

Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time Professor

Date Posted:

juin 10, 2024

Closing Date:

juillet 11, 2024

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above

Expected Enrolment:

50

Approval date:

juin 10, 2024

Number of credits:

3

Work Hours:

39

Course type:

C

Posting type:

Régulier / Regular

Language of instruction:

Anglais | English

Competence in second language:

Passive

Course Schedule:

Mardi | Tuesday 10:00-11:30 Jeudi | Thursday 8:30-10:00 -

Requirements:

Ph.D. in relevant field.

TEACHING MODE : In person

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