Online Courses Handbook 2003

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

Area:	School of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	50.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	8569 (v.4) History 214 - Research Methods for Historians
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.