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Registration for Spring 2010 Classes.The registration period for spring 2010 classes begins on November 4 for graduate students and on November 8 for undergraduates. The department will have special advising appointments available beginning October 22 and continuing through November 10 (after that period students may see faculty members during their regular office hours). History concentrators and graduate students may call the office (353-2551) or stop in (226 Bay State Road, Room 308) to make an advising appointment. After an appointment, a student should go to the department office to obtain the code for Web registration. The procedure for admission to restricted classes will be as follows: For HI 200 (limited to history concentrators, social studies majors in the School of Education, and students in the College of General Studies who intend to become history majors) students must contact the department office in person or by phone. For colloquia (400- and 500-level courses) students first see the instructor and then visit the department office, where the registration is handled by computer. Permission slips for admission to colloquia will be accepted beginning October 1. The department will maintain a waiting list for any of the restricted courses that reach their enrollment limit; students may sign up for waiting lists by calling the office or going to the “Courses” section of the History website.
New History Major Report Available. The department has a new History Major Report and Worksheet for undergraduates (individualized for each student) that summarizes the requirements a student has fulfilled and those remaining. Concentrators may request a report and it will be sent to them by e-mail. The report will be part of each student's file for the upcoming advising meetings.
Conference on the Armenian Diaspora. Professor Simon Payaslian is organizing a conference on the Armenian diaspora to be held February 13, 2010, and has issued a call for papers. More details are available.
Faculty Search. Subject to budgetary approval, the department has begun a search for a historian of early modern Europe, with the appointment to begin September 2010. The text of the advertisement is as follows:
Early Modern European History. The History Department at Boston
University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor
position in early modern European history, pending budgetary approval.
Excellent scholarship and a serious commitment to teaching are essential.
Teaching experience and a PhD in hand by the time of appointment are
required. Candidates should send an application, c.v., and three letters of
recommendation to Professor Barbara Diefendorf, Department of History,
Boston University, 226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215. Review of
applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position
is filled. Boston University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer.
Course Planning. The schedules of History courses for spring 2010 are available on this website (go to the Courses section). A tentative list of courses for 2010-11 will be on the site by mid-October.
Course Areas. History concentrators must fulfill distribution requirements (that is, a certain number of courses in American, European, premodern, and world/regional history). For those concentrating in a specific field of history, both colloquia should be in that field. To that end, we now list the areas of all courses on the website--click on "Courses," then on the relevant semester, then on "With Descriptions." Or a list of all course areas is also available. Both lists indicate which courses count for the premodern requirement.
Department Newsletter. Past department newsletters are available (as PDFs) as follows:
Department Calendar. The website includes a department
calendar for the academic year. Special lectures, department meetings, etc., are listed, and
faculty, undergraduate concentrators, and graduate students may submit events to be added to the
calendar.
Information on Recent PhDs. A section of the website showing the department's recent PhD recipients is available.
Writing Guide. The department has composed a writing
guide specially geared for those writing papers in history. It deals with such topics as
- Defining primary sources
- Defining the precis, the critical essay, the research paper
- Finding a topic
- The writing process
- Plagiarism and how to avoid it
- Improving writing style
- Footnote and bibliography formats
Students may consult this guide on the "Courses" page of this website. It can be printed easily
for those who wish to do so.
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