Admission requirements
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Description
Social and economic historians often apply models and theories from the social sciences to explain historical patterns and developments. This methodological course hands you the keys to the treasure trove, which contains the tools for doing professional research in social and economic history. A thorough knowledge of material and method will be a source of inspiration and will enable you to develop creative ideas and plan your future research. Experts from the field of social and economics history will learn you to the tricks of the trade. Several of the courses will be taught on site (for instance at archives).
This course is organized by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, Research School for Economic and Social History in the Netherlands and Flanders. ResMA Students from other universities that are member of the Posthumus Institute are encouraged to participate. This also means that the course ususally has an inspiring group of students from different universities.
Course objectives
Course objectives are:
Embedding your personal research interests in methodological traditions.
Training in the use of theories and various primary sources.
High level training in presentation skills, both in written and oral form.
The student will achieve:
The ability to independently identify and select sources
The ability to interpret a potentially complex corpus of sources
The ability to independently formulate a clear and well-argued research question
The ability to analyze and evaluate literature and sources for the purpose of producing an original scholarly argument
The ability to interpret a corpus of sources
The ability to identify new approaches within existing academic debates
The aim of the course is to develop knowledge and comprehension of the specialisation social and economic history or Migration and Global Interdependence and its historiography. Specifically knowledge and comprehension of the methodological tools applied in the specialization, for example: – statistics – network analysis – historical demography – large digitized text corpora – Geographical Information Systems (GIS) – discourse analysis – oral history
Timetable
Mode of instruction
- Seminar
Course Load Total:(280 hours)
7 sessions (each of 4 hours, scheduled bi-weekly) = 28 hours
Compulsory Literature 12 × 6 = 60 hours
Hand-in assignments: 12 × 10 = 120 hours
Additional Literature and final essay: 100 hours
Assessment method
- Written assignments demonstrating the following skills:
The ability to independently identify and select literature
The ability to give a clear written report on research results in English or Dutch
The ability to engage with constructive academic feedback
- A presentation and participiation in class discussions, demonstrating the following skills:
The ability to give a clear oral report on the research results in English or Dutch
The ability to provide constructive academic feedback
Assessment and grading method (in percentages):.
essay, assignments, etc. 80%
oral examination 10%
presentation, abstract 10%
To complete the final mark, please take notice of the following:
the final grade for the course is established by (i) determination of the weighted average combined with (ii) the additional requirement that all assignments are handed in.
Blackboard
No
Reading list
The booktitles and / or syllabi to be used in the course, where it can be purchased and how this literature should be studied beforehand.
Distributed at first meeting
Registration
via uSis
Contact
mw. Prof. dr. Schrover
dhr. Dr. L.J. Touwen