This is an advanced graduate-level course that follows-up on the Reading Seminar. It will focus on a specific topic in Chinese, Asian, Western, or Comparative/World History. Students will have to write an extensive research paper based on primary sources.

CILO-1: Acquire the most basic skills of history writing, such as how to choose a research topic, how to collect, read, and cite sources, how to structure a history writing, how to make arguments, and so forth. CILO-2: Enhance their ability to ask questions of, accurately evaluate, and effectively synthesize primary and secondary historical writings, as well as how to comment and criticize the works of their classmates. CILO-3: Develop the ability to effectively express their own ideas in written and oral forms. CILO-4: Expand their knowledge of the historical and social contexts that created diversity in past and present human cultures.