History MRes

• HY52006 - History Skills and Sources
• HY51018 - Directed Reading in Historical Research
• HY52011 - Dissertation

You will be required to attend the History Skills and Sources module which meets regularly in two-hour seminars throughout the Autumn and Spring Semesters. You will have meetings every week with your tutor for the directed readings module, and also regular scheduled meetings to discuss your dissertation research.

You will be expected to attend history research seminars organised by the centres for Global History and Scottish Culture.

In the spring of your final year, you will be invited to present your research project to the School of Humanities Postgraduate Conference.

This course is assessed entirely through continual assessment designed to provide support for developing a research project.

The ability to analyse complex and sometimes contradictory information and to present that material in a coherent narrative will be assessed by essays which will also test your conception of current historiographical debates.

The development of your ideas will be assessed through module journals which will also allow you to maintain a dialogue with tutors.

Your oral and presentation skills, and your ability to organise complex and partial information into a coherent and time-limited form, will be tested by a presentation to the postgraduate conference.

Your ability to design and complete a research project will be assessed by the research dissertation which forms the majority of the assessment for the course.