Mentor's Seminar "History"

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of History

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

2 year, 1-3 module

Instructor

Reznik, Alexander

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This seminar provides academic guidance to those students who opt for major in history within the MA in Global and Regional History and those students who major in social anthropology but who would like to incorporate history courses into their curriculum.

Learning Objectives

• to gain necessary background in history
• to comprehend main approaches and theories in the historical research
• to learn how to develop historical MA project

Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
• A student comprehends the specific of history as a discipline
• A student interprets goals and scope of the discipline
• A students knows key concepts related to the discipline
• A student posesses main methodologies and approaches in historical research

Course Contents

• History as a discipline
• Historical methdologies
• Approaches and schools of thought in historical research

Assessment Elements

• Final Essay
• Class activity

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 4th module
  1 * Class activity + 0.3 * Class activity + 0.7 * Final Essay
• 2023/2024 3rd module
  1 * Class activity

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Duara, P. (2014). A Companion to Global Historical Thought. [N.p.]: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=691291
• Meade, T. A., & Wiesner, M. E. (2004). A Companion to Gender History. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=108703
• Samuels, W. J., Biddle, J., & Davis, J. B. (2003). A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=108710
• Schreibman, S., Siemens, R. G., & Unsworth, J. (2004). A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=231516
• Weller, R. C. (2017). 21st-Century Narratives of World History : Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1632505

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• SEMYONOV, A. (2017). “Global History Is More Than the History of Globalization”: Interview with Sebastian Conrad. Ab Imperio, 1, 23–44. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2017.0002

Authors

• KOCHETKOVA ELENA ALEKSEEVNA
• Султанова Алия Илдаровна