Current active course description (last updated 2023/24)
Special Topic
HIS2006
Current active course description (last updated 2023/24)
Special Topic
HIS2006
The course provides an in-depth study of a historical problem as it developed in older, early modern, or modern history, from a national and/or global perspective.
The course offers a more detailed historical view on a relevant topic. The aim is to give the student knowledge of a specific historical topic, including debates and controversies among historians. The student will gain insight and training in the use of history related theory (if applicable), historiographic understanding, historical methods and the use of historical sources. The course will give the students the opportunity to work independently and critically on a course related topic with historical literature and sources and to understand different approaches and problems related to them.
General study competence or practical competence according to current regulations.
After successful participation, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in knowledge, skills and general competence:
Knowledge
- The student knows the main theories in historical research associated with the main topic of the seminar.
- S/he is familiar with different methodological approaches, and with the basic principles of historical source criticism.
- S/he will have studied written sources from the historical period in question.
Skills
- The student is able to demonstrate theoretical and methodological skills.
- S/he has the ability to use source material in both a critical and constructive way to answer historical issues and to link them to historical debates.
- S/he is able to understand sources in relation to the society from which they stem.
General competence
- The student is able to critically read sources and assess their value.
- S/he has knowledge of different historical and theoretical methods for solving problems and for establishing new knowledge.
- S/he has received a systematic training in historically and socially and politically relevant fields that can also be used outside the study of history.
None other than semester registration fee and syllabus literature.
Compulsory for the bachelor in history. Optional for others.
Lectures, colloquia, oral presentations, writing with student peer review, assignments, organised for both net- and campus students.
The program of study and relevant courses are evaluated by students twice a year as part of the university's quality assurance system.
AK Oral presentation (0/100)
Oppgave (10 page research paper) Graded A-F.
The exam can be written in either Norwegian or English.
The student should have completed a year of study in history or equivalent. Good command of English is important, especially with regard to the reading pensum.