FSEM 192   History Workshop

Faculty Profile for Professor Cooper

History Workshop trains students in historical methods by focusing on research, writing, and communication skills. Students learn to understand historiographical debates, assemble and assess bibliographies, find and interpret primary sources, construct effective written arguments, cite sources correctly, and develop appropriate oral communication skills. Students focus on recent scholarship across the fields of History. This class serves as a gateway to the History major but is also an introduction to skills of writing and research that serve all students well in their transition to college-level work. Students who successfully complete this seminar earn credit for HIST 199 and satisfy the social relations, institutions, and agents areas of inquiry requirement.

Professor Alan Cooper is a historian who works on the history of power in the European Middle Ages. His current project is about the trauma of the Crusades, poverty in London, the politics of England, and the intersection of all those things.