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: 90305 History
Funding Cluster: 03 - Humanities
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
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Result Type: Grade/Mark

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