Core Topics in First Millennium Studies (P01830)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-P01830

The course provides a critical overview of key areas of scholarly attention and debate of general interest to students of the first millennium. It is taught by a team of scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, based both within and outwith History and Classics.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
24/09/2008	15:00	17:00

? Additional Class Information : Classes meet in Room B.3, 17 Buccleuch Place (or elsewhere by arrangement).

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The principal aim of the Module is to familiarise students with a representative sample of central topics and scholarly debates at the heart of first millennium studies, whatever particular context one cares to study, and to evaluate these topics in terms of what they reveal both about the past and about trends in scholarship.

Completing this Module will also provide opportunities to:
• develop an awareness of the importance of critical perspectives in handling secondary scholarship and its power to shape perspectives on the past
• develop an awareness of the current state of play in first millennium studies, and aspects of future directions in studying the period (which might lead to individual research topics)
• improve existing skills in oral presentation, participating in productive seminar discussion, and producing balanced and readable written discussions of complex issues