Undergraduate Course: Historical Skills and Methods I (HIST10426)
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 provides students with an introduction to writing historiographically. It builds upon work done in the Introduction to Historiography and is designed to prepare students for the writing of 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. Working with their tutorial classmates, students will construct a 30 item annotated bibliography, highlighting important works in their field.
In weeks 3-11, students will meet fortnightly in pairs with their tutor in preparation for a historiographic 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 1 |
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) |
Historiographic Essay (5,000 words) 100%
Annotated Bibliography (30 items, done in groups) formative |
| 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 secondary sources;
- demonstrate, by means of coursework, the ability to identify key works done by historians on a topic and construct a bibliography;
- demonstrate, by means of coursework, how to assess historiographical developments and trends;
- demonstrate, by means of coursework, practical experience of writing historiographically as a stepping-stone to the Dissertation.
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Reading List
Beck, Peter J. Presenting History: Past & Present. New York: Palgrave: 2012.
Burke, Peter. What Is Cultural History? Cambridge: Polity, 2008.
Cheng, Eileen Ka-May. Historiography: An Introductory Guide. New York: Continuum: 2012.
Claus, Peter and John Marriott. History: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Iggers, Georg, Edward Wang, and Supriya Mukherjee. A Global History of Modern Historiography. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Iggers, Georg. Historiography in the Twentieth Century. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1997.
Poppin, Jeremy D. From Herodotus to H-net: The Story of Historiography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2015.
Wilson, Norman. History in Crisis. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson, 2013. |
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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