History 450 - JYW Seminar in History

Fall
2024
05
4.00
Stephen Platt

TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM

UMass Amherst
30849
Herter Hall room 400
platt@history.umass.edu
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 and Juniors in History, Middle East and Judaic majors only. Open to Seniors and Juniors in History, Middle East and Judaic majors only.
"China and the US"

This writing seminar will explore cultural and political relations between China and the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. Readings will include travel narratives, missionary and diplomatic accounts, popular press coverage and other sources that bring to life what China has meant to Americans, and what America has meant to Chinese, over the course of the last two centuries. Short regular writing assignments will lead up to a longer research paper at the end of the course. (Must not have taken 592U)

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.