What Is History

AY2014/2015 Semester 1

A thematically structured critical introduction to the subject of history: its meanings, frameworks, interpretations, schools of thought, practitioners and its uses and abuses. The subject will analyze both the traditional and new methods of studying, analyzing and interpreting the past and its relationship to our present and the future. This exciting debate on the concepts, practices and critiques of history will be framed by in-depth analysis of selected case studies that provide further critical insights into the discipline and its relationship with other scholarly disciplines.