Sources and Methods in Ancient History (HIST0899)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Teaching department: History
Credit value: 30

Restrictions: Compulsory module for students on the UCL MA Ancient History degree programme and students on the Intercollegiate degree programmes only (please see module description). Not available to any other students.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

Teaching will consist of a weekly seminar on problems of theory and method of current importance to the study of ancient history, approached through specific research topics. Options include fields such as: social anthropology, historiography, archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, papyrology, and textual criticism. Students will be asked to choose two topics among those proposed, and will write essays on them; this is meant to help students in refining their methodological approaches and use of sources for their dissertations. The seminar involves ancient historians from all the institutions participating in the Intercollegiate degree (UCL, King's College, RHUL and the ICS).

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 1 and 2 听听听 Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 100% Coursework
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 24
Who to contact for more information: history.programmes@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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