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

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Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	9673 (v.4) History 314 - Research Methods for Historians or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):	1438 (v.4) History 111 - History of India in the 17th Century or any previous version AND 1439 (v.4) History 112 - The Modern World - The Rise and Fall of British Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries or any previous version
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.