History 450 - JYW Seminar in History
Spring
2018
05
4.00
Audrey Altstadt
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
52610
This seminar trains students in historical research techniques and the writing of history, and fulfills the University's Junior Writing requirement. See the History Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions.
Open to Seniors & Juniors only. Putin: The Man and his Methods
Vladimir Putin, Russian president is the object of hatred and adoration at home and in the West. This writing seminar is designed to allow us to explore recent books on Putin and Putin?s Russia and to hone our own writing methods. Among the course readings will be at least one biography (Masha Gesen, Man with No Face) and books that describe such Putin methods as information manipulation (e.g. Peter Pomerantzev Everything is False and Anything is Possible). We will also explore several non-academic writers? methods of writing and work on these styles through short and long paper drafts with the idea that most college graduates will enter professions where non-academic writing styles are most useful. Grading will be based on participation and on writing projects related to the seminar topic, Putin and Putin?s Russia.
Vladimir Putin, Russian president is the object of hatred and adoration at home and in the West. This writing seminar is designed to allow us to explore recent books on Putin and Putin?s Russia and to hone our own writing methods. Among the course readings will be at least one biography (Masha Gesen, Man with No Face) and books that describe such Putin methods as information manipulation (e.g. Peter Pomerantzev Everything is False and Anything is Possible). We will also explore several non-academic writers? methods of writing and work on these styles through short and long paper drafts with the idea that most college graduates will enter professions where non-academic writing styles are most useful. Grading will be based on participation and on writing projects related to the seminar topic, Putin and Putin?s Russia.