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Making Histories and Historians - HUMS3002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description Introduces students to the social role, impact and responsibilities of historians. Seminars deal in a practical way with professional ethics; scholarly standards concerning bias, interpretation and plagiarism; the impact on these standards of new ideas of postmodernism; new methods and evidence in history and the ethical dilemmas these methods and procedures may raise; the use and abuse of history in public discourse and in education.
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