Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

9673 (v.4) History 314 - Research Methods for Historians


Area:

Department of Social Sciences

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

3.0
 
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Lecture:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

8569 (v.4) History 214 - Research Methods for Historians
 

Syllabus:

Empirical research methods for historians. Planning research-hypotheses, concepts and conceptualisation, the nature of data, sampling. Data collection methods - official statistics, content analysis, oral history, collective biography. Methods of data description and analysis - maps, diagrams, graphs, frequency distributions, summarising quantitative data, correlation and regression, plus a major research paper.
 
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Field of Education:

090305 History

Funding Cluster:

03 - Humanities

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

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