Each year senior history majors participate in the Senior Seminar course, 411. This is the capstone course in which students design their own research project in historical inquiry. For many students it is the course they anticipate as they are free to pursue their interests in history.

Core experiences in this course include:

Recent Research Projects 2003-04

• Bishop, Amber. "The Contracting Legal and Social Status of Basotho Women"
• John Cocco. "Ideological Ownership: How Culture Dictated the Demise of the Three Hundred at Themopylae"
• Fisher, Christina. "Women on a Crusade"
• Fornari, Erica. "The 'Crown Prince' of American Diplomacy during the French Revolution"
• Frost, Matt. "The Cuban Missile Crisis and its Origins: A Look Through Newspapers."
• McCance, Sarah. "Behind Stone Walls and Between the Lines: Bethlem Doctors' Perceptions of Insanity in Early Victorian London."
• Reidel, Carissa M. "More than Rosie: The De-Simplification of the Motivations for Women Working in War Production Factory Jobs during World War II."
• Sanicky, Kathryn. "Jack the Reformer: How the Press' Sensationalism of Jack the Ripper Spurred Reform in London's East End."
• Schnacke, Joshua. "The Profit Motive and Nationalism: An Examination of Ford Motor Company in the United States adn the Daimler-Benz Corporation in Germany during the Second World War."
• Siniff, Nick. "The Eyes of the Killer: The Men who Created the Holocaust."
• Stevenson, Ryan R. "Rickey and Robinson: Intertwined in History."
• Thompson, Shelley. "Truman's Recognition of Israel: Another Post-Revisionist Perspective."