VANCOUVER - History, Department of - University of British Columbia

(February 28/March 1). The first draft of papers will be presented in classes from
Weeks 12-14 (starting on Tuesday, March 20 and ending Thursday, April 5). Students
who present their papers in Weeks 12 or 13 will have more time to revise and develop
their papers than others who present at the end of the course. The final draft of your
research paper should be no longer than 5000 words (about 16 pages, double-spaced,
12-point font) and is due no later than Friday, April 20, 2012. In Weeks 12-14 each
student will also be asked to present a short verbal critique of one other student’s
research paper.
b) STUDENT PARTICIPATION: Twenty percent (20%) of the course grade will be
given for contribution to in-class discussions in the seminar, with eighty percent (80%)
for other elements. Marks will be distributed as follows:
a) Class participation................................................ 20%
b) Rolf Knight essay………………………………. 5%
b) Essay proposal and bibliography.......................... 10%
c) Seminar readings presentation (written and oral) 10%
d) First draft of research paper............................... 15%
e) Critique of draft of one other student’s paper........ 5%
f) Final Paper............................................................. 35%
Students will be asked to make four presentations in class: 1) for Week 2 everyone
will be asked to make a critical comment on the Major Matthews Collection of the
City of Vancouver Archives (available online) as an historical source; 2) in Week 5
students will present first a preliminary proposal to me only and then in Week 9 a
formal research paper proposal to their class; other students will have read the
proposal through an e-mail submission and will come to class prepared to ask
questions about the proposed project; 3) for four weeks of the course three or four
students per week will lead the discussion based on both the core and supplementary
readings for that week, and will submit a short 4-5 page paper based on the readings;
and 4) in the final classes of the year students will present a ten-minute summary of
the completed first draft of their research papers, to be given orally in one of the
classes in Weeks 12-14.
3. COURSE MATERIALS
a) Course pack of readings in UBC Bookstore
b) Rolf Knight, Along the No.20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront
(Vancouver: New Star Books, 2011 [ 1980]). Copies in UBC Bookstore.
c) Online sources: articles through the UBC Library; Matthews Collection primary
source through the City of Vancouver Archives web page; and Writing Centre on the
web page of the UBC History Department.
4. SEMINAR SCHEDULE
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