Postgraduate Course: History Skills: preparing for postgraduate study (online) (LLLE10001)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This online course is designed to embed enhanced historical skills in preparation for postgraduate study. Students will develop expertise in source analysis, critical thinking and historical debate, via a series of online lectures and regular online seminars, supported by discussion forums, peer review and close tutor supervision. |
| Course description |
This course is designed to enhance students' historical study skills, enabling progression to postgraduate study in history and related subjects. It opens with an examination of the nature of historical study, debating the meaning of history and developing students' expertise in critical analysis of primary and secondary sources. The course will then move on to a study a topic (eg. an aspect of medieval Europe; modern European history; Scottish history) providing a focus for applying and further enhancing historical skills. Students will then work on designing an essay topic and plan, selecting their own materials. The course will culminate in two weeks of essay- writing, supported by tutor feedback.
The introductory and subject specific sections of the course will require students to access resources each week as a basis for discussion, exercises and essay-writing. Resources will be available online as eBooks, eReserves and eJournal articles. The course will be taught via pre-
recorded lectures, live seminars led by the tutor (recorded), and forum seminars (moderated by the tutor; students can contribute in their own time). Students will be supported additionally via tutor feedback on their contributions to the course and on written work.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
A 3000-word essay worth 100% of the final mark. |
| Feedback |
Students will receive feedback on their coursework, and will have the opportunity to discuss that feedback further with the tutor during their published office hours for this course or by appointment. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- assess and analyse primary historical sources, showing a detailed knowledge of their historical context;
- analyse critically historians¿ opinions supported by enhanced understanding of their theoretical context;
- apply historical analysis skills to a topic case study;
- communicate ideas and knowledge of specialist areas clearly, and engage in debate with peers.
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Reading List
Tracey Loughran (ed.), A Practical Guide to Studying History: Skills and Approaches (2017), ebook
Hakim Adi (ed.), Black British History: New Perspectives (2019), ebook
Edward J. Cowan (ed.). The Wallace Book (2007), ebook
Edward J. Cowan, For Freedom Alone: The Declaration of Arbroath (2013), ebook
Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson (eds.), A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000-1600 (2011), ebook
L. Jordanova, History in Practice (2nd edn, 2016), ebook.
S. Barber & C.M. Peniston-Bird (eds.), History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (2008), ebook
P. Claus & J. Marriott, History: An Introduction to Theory, Method & Practice (2013), ebook
D. Cannadine, What is History Now? (2004), ebook
K. Harvey (ed.), History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources (2009), ebook
J. Tosh, The Pursuit of History (2002), ebook
Joan Tumblety (ed.), History and Memory: Understanding Memory as Source and Subject (2013), ebook
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- Critical thinking
- Source analysis
- Oral and written communication |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sally Crumplin
Tel:
Email: Sally.Crumplin@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk |
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