Course Description:
The capstone seminar experience will focus on intensive scholarly study of a specific topic in history. Topics will vary. In addition to studying a specific topic, students will read and develop an understanding of the historiography and principal interpretations related to the topic. Each student will also research and write a 15- to 20-page paper incorporating both primary and secondary sources. Designed as a capstone experience, it will ask the students to demonstrate a mastery of the historical process, both in terms of assimilating historical ideas as well as writing a paper based on substantive historical research.