Approaches to Historical Research
Course Organiser: Dr Joseph Clarke
Weighting: 5 ECTS
Teaching Staff: Team Taught
This course introduces students to debates concerning the sources historians encounter in their research, the interpretative problems they may pose and the methods historians use to interpret them. The course is designed to encourage students to reflect critically on the nature of primary sources, to problematise the ways that historians interpret them and to challenge students’ preconceptions concerning the research process. The course is taught by historians from throughout the department in order to introduce students to the variety of sources, methodologies and theoretical approaches currently employed in historical scholarship.