Postgraduate Course: Historiography and Theory of Social and Cultural History (PGHC11207)
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 | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is the core course for the taught degree MScT Social and Cultural History. The aim is to heighten awareness of some of the different traditions and approaches within the social sciences to the study of human behaviour and develop an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to historical research. The themes include the family; the public sphere; social capital; culture; place and space; sexuality; history and memory. |
| Course description |
This is the core course for the taught degree MScT Social and Cultural History. The aim of the course is to heighten awareness of some of the different traditions and approaches within the social sciences to the study of human behaviour. Inevitably it can do no more than provide a set of ¿tasters¿, designed to help students see how different social science disciplines tackle problems of diversity and change. It develops an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to historical research in order to stimulate an interest in exploring difference and diversity within students¿ own research themes. The theoretical areas for detailed examination have been selected both because they show something of this diversity of approach and because they are areas some understanding of which is likely to be of relevance to a very wide range of different research themes. The themes include the family; the public sphere; social capital; culture; place and space; sexuality; history and memory. The assessment for the course is based on either a significant theory-driven debate in social or cultural history; or a discussion of the impact of a major theoretical text and/or theorist; or the application of a theoretical approach in a short empirical case study.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate in presentation, discussion and in writing via the assessment an appreciation of the evolving intellectual traditions which have informed the disciplines of social and cultural history
- Demonstrate in presentation, discussion and in writing via the assessment understanding of some of the wide range of theoretic approaches currently employed within social and cultural history
- Demonstrate in presentation, discussion and in writing via the assessment an ability to apply these theoretical approaches to specific historical contexts
- Demonstrate in presentation, discussion and in writing via the assessment the ability to develop and sustain original scholarly arguments in oral and written form by independently formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence considered in the course
- Demonstrate in presentation, discussion and in writing via the assessment originality and independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers; and a considerable degree of autonomy
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Reading List
Philip Abrams, Historical Sociology (1982)
Michael Anderson, Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914 (Cambridge, 1995)
H. G. Cocks and Matt Houlbrook (eds), The Modern History of Sexuality (2006)
Bernard Cohn, History and Anthropology: The State of Play (2001)
John Field, Social Capital (London, 2003)
Simon Gunn and R.J. Morris (eds.), Identities in Space: Contested terrains in the Western City Since 1850 (Ashgate, 2001)
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, 1989)
Jonathan Hart, Literature, Theory, History (2011)
Jacques Le Goff, History and memory (1992)
Ann Swidler, Talk of Love: How Culture Matters (Chicago, 2001) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | H&TofS&CHist Historiography Theory Social Cultural History |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Stana Nenadic
Tel: (0131 6)50 3839
Email: Stana.Nenadic@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk |
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