HIS 378 HIS378 Week 5 Final Project Assignment – SeeTutorials.com


Ashford HIS 378 Week 5 Final Project
Final Project. Due by Day 7.
Students will demonstrate their mastery of the learning objectives and associated skills developed in the course by responding to their choice of a historical issue posed in Week One. In the first part of the project, students evaluate the historiography of the issue, that is, how the issue has been examined in historical scholarship over time. The second part of the project requires students to analyze a primary source document relevant to the chosen historical issue.
Students will demonstrate the ability to:
  • Identify key elements of the theory and practice of historical writing
  • Assess the different ways historians have investigated and responded to historical issues
  • Apply historiography to historical analysis
  • Identify the types of primary sources historians analyze
  • Assess the different theoretical approaches historians use when analyzing primary sources
  • Apply primary source analysis skills to the development of historical analysis
    Historical Issues:
• Why did witchcraft persecutions take place in Early Modern Europe or British colonies in North
America? How have historians attempted to explain the causes and effects of the witchcraze?
  • Why did the French Revolution take place? How have historians examined different factors involved in revolutionary movements to offer explanations?
  • How did British colonial rule affect social, cultural, economic, or political systems in India? How have historians characterized the nature and impact of colonialism in this context?
  • How did the Industrial Revolution affect society and culture? Why do some historians offer arguments suggesting major discontinuity, while others suggest gradual change?
  • How did the Civil Rights movement challenge concepts of race and cultural identity?
    Part One: Historiography: Identification, Assessment and Application
    Prior to completing this portion of the assignment, students should reflect upon the concept of historiography, as discussed in Chapter 3 of Tosh, the video by Bowles, and related content throughout the course.
    Using the sources within the course, the Annotated Bibliography from Week Three and the outline from Week Four, students will write a five- to seven-page historiographical essay on the secondary sources chosen for this project.
    In this section, students must
  • Identify the thesis and key elements of each author’s argument.
  • Identify debates between scholars with regard to the historical issue under consideration.
  • Identify the source materials the authors are using (both primary and secondary).
  • Explain the methods, methodologies, or theoretical approaches the authors are employing.
  • Explain the reasons how or why a given scholar’s approach might produce a different interpretation than that found in another study.
  • Explain how scholars have built upon, supported, critiqued, or dismissed the positions presented in prior studies.

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