Undergraduate Course: Historical Skills and Methods II (HIST10425)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This 20-credit course helps students to improve their skills writing with primary sources. It builds upon work done in Historian's Toolkit and other courses and is designed to prepare students for writing a history dissertation. |
| Course description |
Based on student preference, students will be allocated to tutorials focused on particular historical fields, which may include Gender, Social & Cultural, Political, Economic, Intellectual, Global & Transnational, etc.
In weeks 3-11, students will meet fortnightly in pairs with their tutor in preparation for a primary source essay.
Note: Students taking both Historical Skills & Methods I and II will be allocated to different fields in each semester.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2018/19, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 2,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4,
Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
188 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
5,000-word Primary Source Essay (100%) |
| Feedback |
Students will receive written feedback on their coursework, and will have the opportunity to discuss that feedback further with the Course Organiser during their published office hours or by appointment. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate, by means of coursework, skills in locating primary sources in libraries, online and in archives;
- demonstrate, by means of coursework, understanding of the role of research questions and hypotheses;
- demonstrate, by means of coursework, knowledge of at least two methods of historical analysis;
- demonstrate, by means of coursework, practical experience of planning and completing a research project as a stepping-stone to the Dissertation.
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Reading List
Adelson, Roger (ed.). Speaking of History: Conversations with Historians. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997.
Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth About History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
Blouin Jr., Francis X. and William G. Rosenberg. Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives. Oxford: OUP, 2011.
Burke, Peter, Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. London: Reaktion, 2001.
Brundage, Anthony. Going to the Sources, 6th ed. Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
Dobson, M. and B. Ziemann (eds.). Reading Primary Sources. London: Routledge, 2008.
Jordanova, Ludmilla. History in Practice, 2nd ed. London: Hodder Arnold, 2008.
Mann, Thomas. The Oxford Guide to Library Research. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
Marwick, Arthur. The Nature of History.3rd ed. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1970.
Rosenthal, Joel T. (ed). Understanding Medieval Primary Sources: Using Historical Sources to Discover Medieval Europe, London: Routledge, 2012.
Tosh, John. The Pursuit of History. 5th ed. London: Longman, 2010
Walker, Garthine (ed.). Writing Early Modern History. London: Bloomsbury, 2005. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Anna Groundwater
Tel: 0131 (6)50 2553
Email: Anna.groundwater@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lorna Berridge
Tel:
Email: Lorna.Berridge@ed.ac.uk |
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