Postgraduate Course: Professional Skills in Classics (PGHC11306)
Course Outline
| School |
School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Postgraduate (School of History and Classics) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course is designed to provide practical instruction in professional skills and research techniques in the humanities, and specifically as employed by Classicists. Meetings will also provide a sounding-board for students to discuss with faculty members and each other the problems associated with carrying out research and presenting scholarship.
Sessions will typically cover subjects including:
- Local library holdings and services; electronic databases
- The practicalities of library-based and digital searching
- Fact-checking
- Conventions of presentation of scholarly work
- Creating comprehensive multilingual bibliographies
- Guidance on the use and efficacy of databases
- Use of Endnote
- Preparation and delivery of oral research papers, and supporting technologies
- Forming a judgment on and getting value from published scholarship
- Forming a judgment on and getting value from seminar presentations
- How to summarise others' arguments and one's own
- How to create a research proposal
- Applications for funding
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Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should have an understanding of:
- Bibliographical research techniques in Classics
- Correct and clear presentation of scholarship in Classics, in both written and oral form
- The use of databases and bibliographical computer programmes, and the advantages (and where applicable disadvantages) of such approaches
- How to summarise the scholarly arguments of others and discuss them in their own work (and by extension how to summarise one's own arguments clearly, for example in research proposals).
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Assessment Information
| Students will be expected throughout to read and/or produce written work in advance of individual sessions. They may be asked on an informal basis to produce some of the following: practical exercises on presentation and fact checking, a bibliography on a set subject, a book review, critical summaries of meetings of the Classics Research Seminar; they may also be asked to make a short oral presentation on the subjects of their other work. Assessment and feedback on this work will likewise be informal, and the course will be assessed on a pass/fail basis. |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Gavin Kelly
Tel: (0131 6)50 3581
Email: Gavin.Kelly@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mr Nicholas Ovenden
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Niko.Ovenden@ed.ac.uk |
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