Directed Reading and Research in Scottish History (II) (P02462)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-DirectRR2

Students should meet at regular intervals (normally a minimum of five times per semester) with their supervisor(s), in order to carry out directed reading and research in their chosen field. They will write a 6,000-word essay, normally using both primary and secondary sources, on an agreed aspect of their overall research topic.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 50 minutes per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Successful completion of this course provides students with the ability:
- To formulate and implement a plan of research.
- To formulate hypotheses relating to the student's research subject and to test them by marshalling a range of primary and secondary evidence.
- To locate a specific thesis within its broader historiography.
- To reflect critically on the processes and methods involved in research and writing.
- To construct and pursue a coherent historical argument based on the hypotheses which have been formulated and tested by reference to primary and secondary source material.
- To locate an argument - whether verbal or written - within a broader intellectual context and to evaluate its implications from that more general perspective.
- To conceive and pursue to its conclusion a coherent argument founded on evidence provided by the sources at the student's disposal.
- To undertake an independent research project, and to complete it within a strict time limit.
- To write clear, accurate, precise and concise prose.

Assessment Information

One essay of 6,000 words the title/subject of which will be agreed between the student and his/her supervisors at the beginning of the semester or earlier.