Postgraduate Course: Professional Skills in Classics (PGHC11306)
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 | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 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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| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
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. |
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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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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | ProfSkillsClassics |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Benjamin Russell
Tel:
Email: Ben.Russell@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Gordon Littlejohn
Tel: (0131 6)50 3782
Email: Gordon.Littlejohn@ed.ac.uk |
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