Focus Circumpolar History

After successful participation, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

• The student has a more thorough knowledge of a specific theme within the history of the circumpolar areas.
• The student knows theories in historical research and is familiar with different methodological approaches, and with the basic principles of historical source criticism.
• The student is familiar with a wide range of written sources from the historical period in question, and the special problems associated with the main topic of the seminar.

Skills

The student is able to demonstrate theoretical and methodological skills and the ability to use source material in the relevant topic.

The student is able to employ source material in both a critical and constructive way.

S/he is able to do so in order to answer historical issues and to link them to historical debates.

General competence

The student is able to critically read sources and assess their value in relation to the society they were written in.

The student knows different historical and theoretical methods for solving problems and for establish-ing new knowledge.

The student has received a systematic training in historically and socially relevant fields of knowledge, thus acquiring knowledge, skills and competence that can also be used outside the study of history.