HIST30060
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Capstone subject for History majors. You design and execute your own research project, then present it in whatever format works best — essay, documentary, website, etc. More creative than your average history subject.
Research Project Plan 500 words
week 5
Research Project 2500 words
exam period
Quizzes
throughout semester
Associate Professor Julie Fedor
no reviews yettook it Sem 1, 2025
capstone structure means you are doing genuine historical research, not responding to set questions. the research project is open-ended which is either motivating or overwhelming depending on how comfortable you are with independent scholarly work
took it Sem 2, 2024
no clearly defined weekly learning outcomes which makes it hard to know what you are building toward. the essay marking expects a level of historiographical sophistication that surprises students who have not done upper-level history before
took it Sem 1, 2025
rewards students who are genuinely interested in history as a discipline. if you are doing it purely as a capstone requirement the open research format will feel like a slog without real intellectual investment