Introduction to History as Academic Discipline
Course code
AIG6021.HT
old course code
AIG6021
Course title in Estonian
Sissejuhatus ajalooteadusesse
Course title in English
Introduction to History as Academic Discipline
ECTS credits
5.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Overview of history as academic discipline, its main problems and methods. Issues dealt include: What is history? What does it mean to learn history? Who is historian? Is history science or art? etc.
Brief description of the course
What is history ? Sources in history. Supporting disciplines in history. History as social science, as a part of humanities. Methods of history-writing, its past and present. Main problems of history-writing. Its present state all over the world. Writing history in Estonia.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
Student is able to:
1. Analyse issues related to the historical science
2. Orientates in the historiography
3. Knows the development of historical science, understand the main terminology and orientates in the philosophical issues of the topic
Student is able to:
1. Analyse issues related to the historical science
2. Orientates in the historiography
3. Knows the development of historical science, understand the main terminology and orientates in the philosophical issues of the topic
Teacher
Priit Raudkici, PhD; Maarja Merivoo-Parro, MA
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