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This course aims to develop the ability of students to identify relevant research questions within historical debates, and to devise research strategies applied in the historical sciences. These skills are taught on the basis of a series of crucial debates in modern history and a discussion of main theoretical and methological approaches to history. On the basis of these debates, students learn how to present and to write an actual research proposal.
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This course starts from the observation that doing research means to participate in a community of discourse of researchers. In order to explain the relevance of your research topic, the urgency of your questions and the adequacy of your research strategy, you need to learn the conventions and disagreements among historians, and to recognize the unsolved puzzles that researchers have tried to solve. In this course we analyze several major debates in history and discuss research strategies aimed to give answers to crucial questions in these debates.
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