Senior Project (390-1-20)
Instructors
Geraldo L Cadava
847/491-3152
Harris Hall - Room 210
Professor Cadava teaches courses on Latino, immigration, and borderlands history. He has been at Northwestern for 15 years (!!), after spending his earlier decades in Arizona, California, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, and Connecticut. He's the author of two books about Latino history, and is a huge fan of the Arizona Wildcats basketball team.
Meeting Info
University Library 4770: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
The purpose of this course is to provide a framework within which you can pursue your own interests and develop your own ideas, rather than to introduce a series of texts or a corpus of concrete information. This course is a hybrid of the research seminar and the writing workshop, and we will confront the challenges of both researching and writing in a collaborative manner. To that end, some of our sessions will be devoted to reading and responding to one another's work. While it can be difficult and intimidating to publicly present your work, and to publicly critique or question another's work, we will undertake both in the spirit of support and assistance in the hopes of creating a community of researchers, writers, and scholars. Becoming a careful reader, responder, and recipient of constructive criticism are invaluable skills that fundamentally inform the process by which virtually all scholarly work is produced.
Registration Requirements
Senior majors only.
Learning Objectives
1. Participate actively in a seminar with fellow American Studies majors.
2. Learn to conduct original research using both primary and secondary sources.
3. Produce a substantial research project and present it to your colleagues and professors.
Class Attributes
Advanced Expression
Enrollment Requirements
Enrollment Requirements: Registration is reserved for AMER_ST Seniors Only