BA4101 - Humanities Honours Seminar 1: Research

This subject consists of an introduction to the theories and methods that will equip students to undertake an honours project in the humanities. Through shared discussion, skills-based workshops, and independent study, students will engage with relevant scholarship and practices shared across the humanities, specific to their discipline, and tailored to their independent research project.

Learning Outcomes

• analyse and synthesise advance theoretical knowledge relevant to undertaking higher-level research in the humanities in general and in a discipline specialism in particular;
• design and formulate an approach to undertaking deep and sustained analysis of a complex problem in a discipline area in the humanities;
• identify, justify and employ appropriate methodologies for undertaking an independent research project a discipline area in the humanities.

Subject Assessment

• Oral > Presentation 1 - (20%) - Individual
• Participation > Class participation - (20%) - Individual
• Written > Self-reflection task - (20%) - Individual
• This assessment comprises two parts - a Working Bibliography (10%) and a Literature Review or Essay (30%) - (40%) - Individual.

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