Browse Hierarchy HIST6002: History Dissertation/Project

This module has three purposes. First, to act as a focus for the accumulated knowledge of history students in the final semester of their undergraduate programmes, allowing them to undertake a lengthy piece of self-guided historical research in a framework of individual supervision. Second, to bring to fruition the skills training element of the History programme established in Stage I with 'Introduction to Historiography' (U67507) and Stage II with 'Primary Source Exercise' (U67580) and 'Historical Writing' (U67923). Finally, to confirm the link between research and teaching demonstrated elsewhere in this programme by giving students the opportunity to receive individual tuition in areas related to the research and publication interest of History staff. This honours module encourages students to make connections between material and ideas encountered on earlier modules enabling them to develop an informed and critical overview of the subject of history.