Core Topics in First Millennium Studies (P01235)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCL-P-P01235

This specialist semimar, compulsory for all candidates on the MSc in First Millennium Studies, provides a critical overview of key historiographical trends, paradigms and debates in the study of the first millennium. Taught by a team of scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds and based both within and outwith the School of History and Classics, including archaeologists, Celticists, epigraphers, historians, linguists and literary scholars, the course promotes interdisciplinary approaches to first millennium studies.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

History, (School of History and Classics, Schedule E)

Other subject areas

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History and Classics, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 22 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Completing the specialist seminar will enable candidates to acquire an essential familiarity with a range of key topics pertaining to the first millennium, and with different sources of primary evidence and methods and disciplines applicable to their study, to develop a critical understanding of scholarly trends and challenges associated with interpreting primary sources, to develop an awareness of how a critical perspective on primary and secondary materials can be combined in studying aspects of the first millennium, and to improve existing skills in delivering oral presentations, participating in seminar discussion, and in producing a balanced and readable written discussion of complex issues and detailed material.

Assessment Information

Candidates will be assessed on one seminar presentation per semester, in each case speaking for ten to fifteen minutes and leading the ensuing discussion. They will be required to submit each of these presentations in written form of up to 2000 words for assessment at 25% each of the final grade. They will also submit for assessment an essay of 3500 words due in May, worth 50% of the final grade.