Course description for 2023/24
Introduction to History as an Academic Discipline
HIS1005
Course description for 2023/24
Introduction to History as an Academic Discipline
HIS1005
This course provides an introduction to the Bachelor’s Degree in History, and it is comprised of text and communication seminars, as well as several sessions where the students will reflect on History as an academic discipline. The students will get an overview of History as a discipline, working methods, and aims, and they will participate in communication and text seminars, which form the main part of the course. In addition, through lectures, seminars, and written assignments, the students will get an overall knowledge of, and abilities relating to, the analysis of academic texts, academic dissemination, and communication.
The student must be admitted to the Bachelor’s Degree in History.
The student must be admitted to the Bachelor’s Degree in History.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
- The student will acquire broad knowledge of the traditions, working methods, and peculiarities of History as a discipline and its place in society
- The student will acquire basic knowledge of academic research questions, source criticism and research methods
- The student will acquire basic knowledge of central theories, perspectives and concepts within the historical discipline
Skills:
- The student will show the ability to identify points of view, arguments and structures in different types of texts
- The student will show the ability to communicate academic perspectives in debates
- The student will show the ability to find, evaluate and reference academic materials, and to present them in a well-structured manner in both written and spoken form
- The student will show the ability to reflect about History as a discipline
General competence:
- The student can communicate basic academic content such as theories, research questions and solution in both written and spoken form
- The student can communicate basic knowledge about the role of History as a discipline and the teaching profession
- The student can show an insight into what characterises academic texts, and how such texts can affect society
- The student has an insight into the academic and ethnical angles related to the production of research
None, except from semester fee and course literature.
Compulsory for the Bachelor’s Degree in History.
Lectures, seminars, oral presentations, writing, student peer-review, and assignments.
Yearly evaluations that are part of the university’s quality assurance system.
The student must be prepared to read part of the course literature in English.