Undergraduate Course: The Historian's Toolkit (HIST08032)

Course Outline
School	School of History, Classics and Archaeology	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course is the first-year training course for History students. It provides students with the 'toolkit' of the historical profession and introduces students to the skills needed at university.
Course description	The Historian's Toolkit takes students through all the steps of the historical research process, from becoming familiar with history at university, understanding different sources and the approaches historians take to their interpretation, navigating a course handbook, preparing for tutorials and lectures, using the library, reading and taking notes, to structuring an essay and constructing an argument, following the appropriate referencing and bibliographic conventions and getting an assignment ready for submission. It provides an essential foundation for all second year history courses.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: develop and sustain historical arguments in a variety of literary forms, formulating appropriate questions and utilising evidence interrogate, read, analyse and reflect critically and contextually upon contemporary texts and other primary sources, including visual and material sources, and secondary evidence, including historical writings and the interpretations of historians appreciate the complexity of reconstructing the past, and the problematic and varied nature of historical evidence gather and deploy evidence and data to find, retrieve, sort and data to find, retrieve, sort and exchange new information design, research, and present a sustained and independently conceived piece of historical writing