Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-14 Course Name: History: Theory and Methods |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Understanding History: Meaning, Nature and Scope; Subject Matter of History; Utility of History; Emerging Trends: New History, Big History, Global History, Gender History, Intellectual History, Environmental History, Sub Histories; Idea of Progress in History | |
| 2 | Theoretical Issues in History: Problems of Bias and Subjectivity in History; Uses and Abuses of History – Commitment of a Historian; Value Judgment in History; Nature of Historical Explanation and Interpretation | |
| 3 | Methodological Issues in History: Types of Historical Sources; Historical Evidence – Nature and Transmission; Role of Historian in History; Data Collection and Selection; Generalization and Historical Imagination | |
| 4 | Types, Tools and Methods of Research: Types a Research: Report, Research Paper, Project, Dissertation and Thesis; Use of ICT in Historical Research: MS Word, PPT, Basic Excel, Using Internet and Reliability of Internet Information; Quantitative Methods and Textual Criticism; Qualitative Methods; Documentation of Research: Footnotes, Charts, Tables, Arrangement of References, Indexing, Appendices and Bibliography | |
