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 |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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? | Yes |
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 | Seminar | Rm G.10, Doorway 4, Teviot Place | 1-11 | | | 14:00 - 15:50 | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. Rm G.10, Doorway 4, Teviot Place |
| No Exam Information |
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. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Andrew Erskine
Tel: (0131 6)50 3591
Email: Andrew.Erskine@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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