Postgraduate Course: Research Skills and Methods in Chinese Studies (ASST11081)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This first-semester course introduces first-year postgraduates in LLC to Edinburgh's extensive range of electronic sources and material archives, training them to recognize the research methodologies that these resources serve-so they can generate effective research strategies. In addition to the three lectures during Week 1, students will attend workshops and undertake bibliographical assignments that will provide students with the scope and opportunity to produce solid preliminary research on topics that they choose. Students will complete this course prepared for the discipline-specific methods course offered in the second semester.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 6, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 185 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Students will attend lectures and a choice of workshops, completing one or two bibliographical assignments, depending on the requirements of their MSc programme. In many cases, this assignment will comprise an annotated bibliography that should include a number of forms of documents, such as unpublished theses, manuscripts, online references or specific editions, and should be no more than 2000 words in length.
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Learning Outcomes
Students will learn how to use, acquire, organise and synthesise a number of research technologies, including online resources, databases, archives, manuscripts, hypertext and unpublished documents. Students should be able to identify specific technical problems in their area of study, including problems of historical method, archival access, translation and presentation. At the end of the course students will be capable of producing a full scholarly bibliography in their area of study; they will also be competent in techniques in the management and presentation of research, including thesis preparation.