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Undergraduate Course: Geography in the Archive (GEGR10064)

Course Outline
School School of Geosciences College College of Science and Engineering
Course type Standard Availability Not available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken) SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) Credits 20
Home subject area Geography Other subject area None
Course website http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/geography/Honours/U02522/ Taught in Gaelic? No
Course description This research elective will introduce students to the nature, purpose and function of the archive as a "knowledge space" - a site for the safe keeping, curation and production of scholarly and other materials. Using a number of archives within the resources of the University and within institutions in the city of Edinburgh, attention will be paid to the ways in which the archive as a space and archiving as a process determine the nature of knowledge. Rather than focus alone on the content of relevant geographical and other archived material, students will be expected to interrogate and to understand the archives' own conditions of existence, including provenance, cataloguing and accessibility. The course has the firm support of archive and library staff within the Special Collections division of the University Library. (NB: 'Archive' is used here to include printed works and non-textual sources).
Entry Requirements
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
No Classes have been defined for this Course
First Class Week 1, Monday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Old Library, Geography
Additional information 2 hour(s) per week for 1 week(s).
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
As a result of this course, students will:

-Have a detailed, comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the management and content of selected archives as research repositories;
-Be able to exercise critical judgement in the management of a research problem, with reference to its intellectual content and with insight into the provenance, and archival treatment of the sources in question
-Have attained skills in the design, implementation and critical examination of specific research questions and offer professional level interpretations of the results
-Be able to present, verbally and in writing, a reasoned argument exploring the theory of the archive as a space for the storage, preservation and management of scholarly materials.
Assessment Information
Degree assessment: One 4,000 word essay report
Class assessment: One 2,000 word essay.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiser Prof Charles Withers
Tel: (0131 6)50 2559
Email: C.W.J.WITHERS@ed.ac.uk
Course secretary Mrs Catherine Campbell
Tel: (0131 6)50 9847
Email: cathy.campbell@ed.ac.uk
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