HIST 797 (01) - Colloquium

Colloquium

Durham Liberal Arts::History
Credits: 4.0
Class Size: 15 
Term:  Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
CRN:  10263
Grade Mode:  Letter Grading
Selected topics in American, European, and non-Western history. Required of history majors. Students must elect section in the department office at the time of registration. Course meets the History major requirements for Group I, II, or III, depending on the topic.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 500
Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.
Attributes:  Writing Intensive Course
Instructors:  Eliga Gould

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/26/2024 12/9/2024 MW 12:10pm - 1:30pm HORT 422

Additional Course Details:

The Declaration of Independence

 

The Declaration of Independence, whose 250th anniversary Americans will commemorate in two years, is the United States’ founding text. This colloquium will focus on what the Declaration meant to Americans in 1776 and what it has come to mean since. Topics will include the Declaration’s origins, the Declaration’s impact on people on the margins of American society — women, African Americans, and Native Americans — and the way that a document written by a Congress of white men, most of whom were enslavers and investors in Indian land, became a charter of freedom and democracy. The colloquium will spend the first half of the semester doing common reading, then write a 15-page research paper that can be on any topic (with the professor’s approval) pertaining to the Declaration broadly conceived but that must be based on primary sources.