The Development of a Computer Assiste d Course in Historical Methodology Richard Giordan o Barnard Colleg e Columbia University Introduction The History Department at Barnard College, Columbia University, developed a cours e that employs microcomputers in support of undergraduate instruction in America n history . The primary goals of the use of computers were to get students to think of history as an ongoing intellectual activity, to acquaint them with various methods , particularly quantitative methods used by historians, and to train them in how t o arrive at conclusions of their own . Using SPSS/PC, students analyze datasets to tes t a number of historical interpretations that have been especially influential in th e discipline . By this method, students construct their own interpretations of a n historical development which they can then set against the standing ones . To th e extent that students seize the means to both write and interpret history, they take a giant step in their intellectual empowerment . This we take as the primary goal of a n undergraduate liberal arts education . The History Department at Barnard College, the undergraduate women's colleg e affiliated with Columbia University, embarked in 1983
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The development of a computer-assisted course in historical methodology
Giordano, Richard
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Association for Computing Machinery – Apr 1, 1987
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