6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023239ANR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
Om het Werkcollege te kunnen opnemen moet je tegelijk ook ingeschreven zijn voor Heuristiek: Bronnen voor Geschiedenis. Als je een verkort programma volgt, kan je dit vak zo opnemen.
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
Educational team
Anne Winter
Klaas Van Gelder (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
80 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

On the one hand, this course gives an overview of the main reference works and sources for the study of Early Modern History. On the other hand, a new research theme is chosen each year that provides the context for in-depth independent research by the students. In the course of this seminars, students have to complete a series of assignments that help them to gradually develop their historical research skills: analyzing and discussing relevant scholarly literature (literature assignment), writing a first exploratory paper on the basis of scholarly literature and original archival material (Christmas paper), and an oral presentation of their on-going research (presentation). The final and major assignment in the seminar consists of writing a comprehensive academic paper based on primary archival sources, secondary literature and original, independent research (final paper).

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Slides
Practical course material (Required) : Lesnota's
Additional info

Lessons can take place face to face and/or online, depending on the corona measures imposed by the government and the availability of classrooms.

Attendance is obligatory: clear arrangements are made on this at the start of the academic year.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The students acquire the basic skills of scientific historical research with particular reference to the early modern period: they are able to find relevant scholarly studies and archival sources (heuristics), evaluate and critically analyze them (historical critique and methods) as well as draw up a research report, i.e. writing an academic ‘paper’.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
SELF Presentation determines 10% of the final mark.
SELF Practical Assignment determines 40% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • SELF Presentation with a relative weight of 10 which comprises 10% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • SELF Practical Assignment with a relative weight of 40 which comprises 40% of the final mark.

    Note: Within the SELF Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
    - Literatuurtaak which comprises 10% of the final mark
    - Bibliografietaak which comprises 10% of the final mark
    - Brontaak which comprises 10% of the final mark
    - Probleemstellingstaak which comprises 10% of the final mark

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • SELF Paper with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

    Note: Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignment need to be completed:
    - Eindtaak which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

If a student does not hand in or obtaines less than 50% of the marks for the "eindscriptie", the end grade is the result obtained for the component "eindscriptie" - this rule applies both to the first exam period and the resit period. Students who fail this course in the first exam period, need to submit a new version of their "eindscriptie" for the resit exam period. For the other evaluation components, the results obtained during the first exam period are maintained, unless the student alo submits new versions of one or more of these other assignments - in which case the latter versions are taken as the basis for evaluation for the resit evaluation.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of History: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in History: Default track (63 ECTS) (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in History: Standaard traject (84 ECTS) (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in History: Standaard traject (63 ECTS) (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in History: Standaard traject (84 ECTS) (only offered in Dutch)