UCSB Hist 233A+B, Spring/Fall 1995
Graduate Research Seminar
Spr: 5824 Ellison, W 11:30-1:00
Prof . Marcuse
Office Hours: xxx
marcuse@history.ucsb.edu

RESEARCH ON TOPICS IN GERMAN HISTORY
note: this syllabus has been superceded by the 2003 version
CLASS LIST
Name Tel. e-mail Topic
Jane Doe 685-xxxx jdoe@humanitas grass-roots political mobilization, Weimar
East German Uranium Industry, 1950s
church responses to Nazism
teaching about Third Reich, 1945-1980s
German cultural policy in occ. France
British left responses to National-Socialism

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Jacques Barzun and Henry Graf, The Modern Researcher (Harcourt, Brace, 5th ed. 1985)
[for questions of research procedure, methodology, organization of paper]

Joseph Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Univ. of Chicago, 1990)
[beyond "Strunk & White;" writing clearly and "elegantly"], $9.95

Reader with newsclippings, historiographical and theoretical essays, and exemplary articles
available at GraphikArt on Pardall Rd. Isla Vista

SCHEDULE OF CLASS MEETINGS (TENTATIVE)

# DATE TOPIC

1. 5 Apr. Introduction

2. 12 Apr., 11:30 Library Tour (meet at RM 2572 LIBRARY, 11:30)

3. 19 Apr. Herf article (make appt. for next week; start bibliographic work!!)

4. 26 Apr. no meeting (indiv. consultations: bring bibliography!)

5. 3 May brief meeting: writing a prospectus

6. 10 May preliminary prospectus due; group discussion of problems?

7. 17 May no meeting; annotated bibliography due; appt. for consultation

8. 24 May prospectus due: exchange for peer critique; individual consultations

9. 31 May oral presentations

10. 7 June oral presentations

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1. 5 Oct. administrative meeting; progress reports

2. 12 Oct. outline and thesis paper due; Barzun chaps. 5-9

3. 19 Oct. Gavriel Rosenfeld in JCH 29(1995), 95-128; Barzun pp. 387ff.

4. 26 Oct. 1st installment due (10pp); Barzun chaps. 10-13

5. 2 Nov. postmodern methodology debate; individual consultations (re: 1st installment)

6. 9 Nov. 2nd installment due (+10pp); Williams chaps. 1-5

7. 16 Nov. 3rd installment due (+10pp); Williams chaps. 6-10

8. T, 21 Nov. exchange for peer critiques

9. 30 Nov. oral presentations; Barzun 14,15

10. 7 Dec. oral presentations

12 Dec. final draft due


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