2069 - Historiography
Course information
- Title
- Historiography
- Course number
- 2069.18
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.00
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- History and Social Sciences
- Educations
- BA in History, BA in History, Small Nations and Globalisation, BSSc in Political Science, BSSc in Social Sciences
- Prerequisites
- Students are required to hold an upper secondary education diploma or equivalent qualification.
- Language of instruction
- Faroese
- Registration
- Students on the fifth semester of Bachelor of Arts in History are automatically enrolled. Applicants for an individual course must apply via the Student Service Center at lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- End date
- Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Academic content
- Purpose
- To give the students fundamental knowledge about historiography. Focus will be on important schools and traditions in the research of history in order to give the students an overview of how history has developed as an academic field.
- Learning outcomes
- When the course is finished, the students must have: • an ability to evaluate historical research and historical writing. • an ability to explain the development of historical research around the world, particularly from 1800 omwards. • gained knowledge on discussions about different historical theories and different ways of writing and presenting history. • gained knowledge about mothods, theories and concepts used in modern historical research. • Broad knowledge about the historiographycal traditions outside of the western world. • had the opportunity to independently think about the role of history in modern society.
- Content
- Going through the history about how history has been written and researched from its early beginning up to our time, the stundents will learn different ways of understanding and working with history. The course will be based on a textbook about historiography from a global perspective, but emphasis will be on different historical methods and comprehensions based on examples. Focus will be on providing the students with knowledge about historial research in the nordic countries and Europe.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- The duration of the course is 30 hours. The learning and teaching strategies used are lectures, presentations and discussion. The course is divided into two main sections. Students are required to present a research problem for discussion with the other students.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Oral examination with half an hour to prepare. Preparing and giving a presentation to the class is a prerequisite for taking the examination.
- Examination (internal/external)
- Internal
- Grading scale
- Not set
- Exam date/dates
- The oral exam is set for the 17th of January, 2025
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Erling Isholm
- Teachers
- Erland Viberg Joensen