Unit Code: HIS801

Unit Name: Historical Methods: An Approach to Writing History

Description: This course is an essential component of history for the post-graduate student that it introduces the historical methods and skills utilized in research and writing history. This paper is to familiarise the students to reflect critically on historical methods, tools of writing history, use of archive and museum and its significance. It aims to make them understand the variety of sources, methodologies and theoretical approaches and ways to collect old sources and linking of history with Ancillary and Auxiliary sciences. It also trains them to differentiate between primary and secondary sources and their nature of authenticities. This course will develop the historian craft among the students by thinking objectively and rationally to decipher the underlying reasons behind an event and action.

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Prerequisite: Minimum GPA of 3.0 in any undergraduate degree

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 30

Offered In: Semester 1