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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

HST 201 - Critical Skills for the History Major

Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Intermediate Writing
Lecture / 3 hours per week
A requirement for all History majors and minors, this course introduces students to the skills necessary for effective historical study: understanding and analyzing primary and secondary sources; critical thinking; library and research strategies; and historical writing. This course is a prerequisite for all history seminars beginning in 2006-2007, so students should take this course early in their careers.
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