UNSW Handbook Course - Researching and Writing History

Researching and Writing History - HIST3912


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History
	Contact: Hearn,Mark
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at the HIST2000 level; Excluded: HIST3002
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

A seminar and workshop series in which students are introduced to a variety of research methods, sources and styles of writing, e.g. biography, oral history, family history, use of land titles, newspapers, parliamentary papers, official and private archives. Students will receive hands-on experience in dealing with primary sources and visit major archives in Sydney and Canberra.

Learning Outcomes

Students who actively engage with and successfully complete this course will be able to:

Identify different types of primary sources relevant to different types of research projects
Identify specific primary sources relevant to particular research questions
Understand the basic principles of archival systems so as to locate and retrieve these sources from different kinds of archives
Conduct effective and ethical oral interviews
Construct historical narrative and argument based on analysis of primary sources
Design and execute a small research project.

Assessment

Project 1 - 10%
Project 2 (2000 words) - 40%
Project 3 (3000 words) - 40%
Seminar/Workshop participation - 10%

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