Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Finding Sources
Full course description
This skills course trains you in finding and using sources for research. The first part deals with the finding: how can I build up a useful bibliography for writing a paper? The second and third part deal with the interpretation of sources: how can I make sensible use of evidence about the past? The focus is on historical sources. But the skills of historical source analysis can also be readily translated to the assessment of other kinds of information sources – almost any kinds.
Course objectives
The course has two aims:
- It trains you to find and critically assess appropriate sources in the light of a particular research problem.
- It introduces you to historical methods (source criticism), applied to wide areas of research in the humanities and qualitative social sciences.
Recommended reading
- Bloch, M. (1992). The historian’s craft (P. Putnam, Trans.). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Carr, E.H. (1961). What is history? Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
ACU1507
Period 2
28 Oct 2024
20 Dec 2024
ECTS credits:
4.0Instruction language:
EnglishCoordinator:
Teaching methods:
Assignment(s), Lecture(s), Research, Work in subgroupsAssessment methods:
PortfolioKeywords:
Library search, Source criticism