HSY4970

General seminar

0 points
* One 2-hour seminar per week
* First and second semester
* Clayton

Objectives The aim of this seminar is firstly to encourage students to think about the discipline of history in the broadest possible way, to recognise the ways in which the discipline has changed and is changing and to relate these changes to their own specific research. It aims also to provide students with some assistance, advice and support in organising their research and to give students the opportunity to discuss their research with each other.

Synopsis The general seminar, which is compulsory, consists of a series of meetings (which may or may not be streamed, depending on demand) focused on the work being done by students towards their dissertation. The first two or three weeks, at the end of first semester, will be devoted to guest speakers about their own research projects and methodologies; the remainder, which will occupy the first four or five weeks of second semester, will feature presentations of work-in-progress, followed by questions and discussion. The seminar carries no points, but will provide practical help and guidance to students on their thesis writing. Students are required to attend regularly.