Brian, I agree with you that overloading the canon with stuff only grad students know is a bad thing. Basically my post was a longwinded way of making a simple observation -- that science players gripe at questions about scientists, because they don't study them, whereas history questions almost always ask for stuff that high-level history students don't read... as I said in the last post, even almost all of us history players (grad students included) would want most history questions to be about events/people/etc rather than about historians. In the context of canon expansion however, I think that modern historians do constitute a viable subset for an occasional bonus part in an ACF tourney. Dargan --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "Brian Ulrich <st_aidan_at_h...>" <st_aidan_at_h...> wrote: > I actually think Dargan's right, in that most graduate history > programs I've seen/heard of emphasize historiography in class and > primary sources only on independent work. American history might be > an exception, because such sources are easy to find and read. I > think, however, a point should be made: Is quiz bowl aimed at grad > students or undergrads? I tend to think the latter, as even when > grad students play they're not there primarily to pounce on questions > in their discipline. if we start basing the canon off the graduate > curriculum in different disciplines, we'll very quickly run into some > serious mass participation issues, I should think... > > Brian
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