Postgraduate Course: Research Skills and Methods (CLLC11003)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
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 | Common Courses (School of Lit, Lang and Cult) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This first-semester course introduces first-year postgraduates in LLC
to Edinburgh's extensive range of electronic sources and material
archives, training them to recognize the research methodologies that
these resources serve-so they can generate effective research
strategies. In addition to the three lectures during Week-1, students
will attend workshops and undertake bibliographical assignments that
will provide students with the scope and opportunity to produce solid
preliminary research on topics that they choose. Students will
complete this course prepared for the discipline-specific methods
courses offered by their subject- areas in the second semester.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | exact timings to be advised by Dr Budd - (see Ning website) | 2-11 | | | 14:00 - 14:50 | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 12:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. David Hume Tower Lecture Hall C (12 noon to 13.30pm) |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students will learn how to use, acquire, organise and synthesise a number of research technologies, including online resources, databases, archives, manuscripts, hypertext and unpublished documents. Students should be able to identify specific technical problems in their area of study, including problems of historical method, archival access, translation and presentation. At the end of the course students will be capable of producing a full scholarly bibliography in their area of study; they will also be competent in techniques in the management and presentation of research, including thesis preparation. |
Assessment Information
| Students will attend lectures and a choice of workshops, completing one or two bibliographical assignments, depending on the requirements of their MSc programme. In many cases, this assignment will comprise and annotated bibliography that should include a number of forms of documents, such as unpublished theses, manuscripts, online references or specific editions, and should be no more than 2000 words in length. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | RS&M |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Adam Budd
Tel: (0131 6)51 3761
Email: adam.budd@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Linda Grieve
Tel: (0131 6)50 4114
Email: linda.grieve@ed.ac.uk |
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