3: Secondary Source Analysis
Choose up to two assignments from your archive that demonstrate the following History learning goal and link the files directly to this page, following the instructions at the bottom.
Understand, analyze, and critically evaluate secondary sources.
Identify and articulate a secondary source's argument and assess its evidence.
Show familiarity with historiography on various historical topics.
Recognize and critique different approaches to historical inquiry.
Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between historical interpretations. This includes demonstrating an awareness of the implications of different interpretations, and making sophisticated comparisons between interpretations.
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introduce your work with a reflection and explain how/where it demonstrates that particular concept or skill. This might take you anywhere from a paragraph to a page. The whole paper need not be perfect and need not meet every last detail of the learning outcome.
analyze your own work’s shortcomings. This demonstrates the kind of higher-order thinking we expect of History majors; we encourage you to be critical in your assessment.
explain what you did and what you might do differently, were you to do it again or take the project further in the future.