Undergraduate Course: Year abroad work for degrees in languages and history: Historiography (HIST10501)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
| Course type | Year Abroad |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is for students studying on a compulsory year abroad in languages and History. Students will select from a range of pathways on a variety of historical topics and themes, and develop historiographical pieces of work under the supervision of History staff at Edinburgh. Materials for the assignments will be available online. |
| Course description |
This course enables students to gain greater familiarity with historiographical modes of writing and how historians frame and develop their investigations into the past.
Students who wish to take pre-approved history courses at their host university in place of this course, should contact the LLC teaching office to enrol on the following course: Year abroad work for degrees in languages and history: Courses undertaken in host university (Semester 1)
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 41 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
193 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework:
1,500 word historiographical review of a key monograph (35%)
3,500 word historiographical essay (65%) |
| Feedback |
Students correspond with their essay supervisor whilst abroad to discuss progress and receive feedback. Written feedback on the final submitted essay is made available to students. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- read, analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship;
- develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence;
- demonstrate independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Megan Hunt
Tel: (0131 6)50 9110
Email: Megan.Hunt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Katherine Perry
Tel:
Email: kperry2@ed.ac.uk |
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