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SENIOR PROJECT DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

Course Code:
HIS 494
Active Term:
Fall Term
/ All Years
Course Description:
The capstone experience will focus on intensive scholarly study of a specific topic in history. Each student will also research and create a documentary-style film incorporating both primary and secondary sources, on any topic of their choice. In addition to studying a specific topic students will read and develop an understanding of the historiography and the principal interpretation related to the topic. The Senior Project will ask students to develop a mastery of the historical process in terms of assimilating historical ideas, as well as producing a documentary film of their own.
Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Lecture
Total hours: 45
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