Postgraduate Course: Academic Practice and Methods (PGHC11289)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course is designed to develop both your study skills and your historical research skills. This course also involves familiarisation with digital resources central to the programme, based on the Edinburgh University Library's collection of e-reference and subscription materials. Intensive use of these resources forms a key feature of the programme; you will be expected to explore maps, plans, data, contemporary accounts, images, and historical documents available in major public digital collections provided by the National Library of Scotland, National Archives, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments, National Portrait Gallery, other Scottish museums and collections, as well as a number of digital resources nationally and locally available. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
a) Knowledge and understanding:
- familiarisation with a particular area of scholarship
(b) Intellectual skills:
- understanding the historiography of the topic studied
- assembling arguments and ideas to present as an argument
(c) Practical skills
- practise bringing ideas and evidence together in a logical argument
- demonstrate knowledge of academic conventions regarding references, primary and secondary materials, and associated presentational skills
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Delivered by e-based distance learning |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Rodger
Tel:
Email: Richard.Rodger@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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