HIST 302 Colonial Invasions, Colonial Lives Units: 6.00
This course will focus on learning to interpret primary and secondary sources, conduct historical analysis, discern a thesis and methodology, and write analytical short essays. Course examines the impacts of invasion and colonialism on the lives of colonial Latin American subjects.
Learning Hours: 240 (36 Lecture, 36 Seminar, 168 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan.
Exclusion HIST 285/3.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize key events from colonial Latin American history.
- Analyze, appraise, and evaluate document construction and narrative.
- Produce their own historical analysis of documents and develop the ability to think critically and historically when discussing the past.
- Write short (3 page) papers using critical analysis, that asks a significant historical question, answers it with a clear thesis and a logical argument, and supports it with both primary and secondary sources.
- Write one longer 8-page paper that utilizes skills learning outcomes 1-4 to determine how much they have learned over the term.