Master
2024/2025
Mentor's Seminar "History"
Type:
Compulsory course (Global and Regional History)
Delivered by:
Department of History
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
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
- Linguistic turn
- Hannah Arendt
- The social life of things
- Spatial turn
- Agency
- Hegemony
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module1 * Class participation
- 2025/2026 3rd module1 * Class participation
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