The History Research Seminar provides an opportunity to acquire experience in practical research skills while developing a research project culminating in the writing of a substantial research paper.
Though seminars challenge you to increase your knowledge in a subject area, you are likely not new to research. Classes like History 100 and Writing 2, or the equivalent before you transferred, have helped you shape your understanding of research, including understanding the differences between a secondary source and a primary source, understanding the value Library database as well as visiting the University Library or Special Collections and Archives to gather primary and secondary sources for research assignments.
What's different in research seminars is the need to delve deeper into a topic. This will challenge you to use specialized library resources and databases to discover subject specific-primary and secondary sources and your searches will benefit from more savvy research strategies.
Through conversations with previous History seminar students, we uncovered areas in their seminar experience where they felt like they could've used additional support. These include:
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Hello, My name is Annette and I'm the librarian for the Humanities.
If you want to reach me, send me an email at research@library.ucsc.edu.
The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.
The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.
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