Lalu, Premesh19/10/201119/10/20111996Lalu, P. & Cornell, C. (1996). Staging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western Cape. South African Historical Journal, 34:1, 196-210https://hdl.handle.net/10566/264This article focuses on the lecture-room debates which have been the central feature of the first-year history course at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) since 1993. The UWC History Department takes the position that in first-year teaching the main aim should be to show students that the discipline is always contested and to introduce them to historical argument. The article makes a case for these lecture-room debates as a developmental sequence or series for the induction of first-year UWC students into historical argument in discussion, reading and writing.enThis is the author post-print version of the published article. Readers may use the material with due attribution of the author and source.Historical argumentLecture-room debatesHistory departmentStudent learningStaging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western CapeArticle