Postgraduate Course: Research Skills and Methods (CLLC11003)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
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 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 and reflective assignments that will provide students with the scope and opportunity to produce solid preliminary research on topics that they choose.
Students must achieve at least 40% overall in order to pass the course for a diploma level qualification and 50% for MSc. The course is marked on a pass/fail basis.
In order to pass this course, students must attend three introductory lectures and three research skills workshops. They also will complete three summative assignments, which will be graded jointly by the course organiser and subject-area staff:
1. Submission of a bibliographic assignment comprising a literature search and an annotated bibliography, based on material from programme core courses (up to 2000 words in length). This assignment represents 50% of the assessment for this course and is due by Friday 9 October 2015.
2. Peer review of three bibliographical assignments completed by other students in this course (within and beyond the student¿s own programme). These reviews will appear as postings in reply/dialogue with the bibliographic assignments, hosted in the Discussion Forum section of this course's Learn site. Each of the three reviews will reach 200 words. These reviews will be weighted at 25% of the course grade; the deadline will be 23 October 2015.
3. A revision of the initial bibliographic assignment drawing on peer review and feedback from course organiser and subject area staff, along with a 500-word reflection on the revision process. This revision represents 25% of the assessment for the course and is due by Friday 13 November 2015.
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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| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, 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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Lecture Hours 6,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 6,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 25,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
156 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Students must achieve at least 40% overall in order to pass the course for a diploma level qualification and 50% for MSc. The course is marked on a pass/fail basis.
In order to pass this course, students must attend three introductory lectures and three research skills workshops. They also will complete three summative assignments, which will be graded jointly by the course organiser and subject-area staff.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 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.
- 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.
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Reading List
A Talis Aspire reading list is associated with this course:
http://resourcelists.ed.ac.uk/courses/cllc11003ss1sem1.html. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | RSaM |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Adam Budd
Tel: (0131 6)50 3834
Email: adam.budd@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Inga Ackermann
Tel: (0131 6)50 4465
Email: Inga.Ackermann@ed.ac.uk |
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