12 Credit section, additional work and meeting dates, Winter, 2007
Faculty: Susan Preciso 867-6011 precisos@evergreen.edu
and Sarah Ryan 867-6720 ryans@evergreen.edu

Meets: Wednesdays, January 10, 24, February 7, 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m., and March 7, 6:15-8 p.m. in addition to regular class meetings. Place: Library 3417, 3rd floor corner conference room in the library proper.

Students enrolled for twelve credits in The Age of Irony will study historical theory and the ways that historians work. In addition to completing the work for the eight credit program, they will read three additional books and several assigned articles, will meet for a bi-weekly seminar applying these ideas to the program texts, and will write an historiographic essay about their main project topic. In the spring, the 12-credit option will focus on literary and cultural theory. This option is ideal for students wanting advanced studies in history and literature and those who would like a supportive environment for producing senior-level written work. Four credits will be awarded in historical theory and methods in the winter and four credits in literary and cultural criticism in the Spring, in addition to the Age of Irony credits.

Required books:

Reading for the first session, "Imagining Woodrow Wilson:Dreams of East-West Harmony and the Revolt against Empire in 1919," by Erez Manela. You might also enjoy W.E.B. DuBois' 1915 article, "The African Roots of the War."

What Is History? by Edward Hallet Carr, Vintage 1967

Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World, by Eric Foner,
Hill and Wang, 2003

What Is History Now? by David Cannadine (Editor), Palgrave Macmillan; 2004

TESC Evening & Weekend Studies Fall/Winter/Spring 2006-2007