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Human Rights
Kevin Grant, Professor of History
Fall 2018

 

Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949
Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)

Assignment Description

In this course devoted to research skills, students learn how to develop a research project, explore different types of sources, and determine the significance/status of a work in its field. The final assignment is a general research essay of about 20 pages on a topic of their own selection. Students also write four short critiques of monographs throughout the semester.


In Brief

Deliverables

research paper/essay

Skill Areas

information discovery
information evaluation & contextualization
citation & scholarly communication

Tools

library catalog
library databases
library research guides
Google

Resources

articles
books
government documents
government websites
NGO websites

Links course guide
LITS Support Kristin Strohmeyer

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