Diploma Seminar in History I - YBAJ044

• Title: Diploma Seminar in History I
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 10
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dr. phil. Jan Vondráček, M.A.
• Is incompatible with: YBAJ232
• Is pre-requisite for: YBAJ045

Annotation

English

Weekly schedule: 1) The Past is a Foreign Country 2) Choosing a topic 3) Research methods 4) Primary sources: Written Records 5) Primary sources: Visual Material 6) Secondary sources 7) Journal databases 8) Preparing bibliography 9) Citational practices 10) Avoiding plagiarism 11) Thesis structure and work plan 12) Writing process 13) Formatting the thesis

Last update: Kozák Vratislav, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.05.2018)

Syllabus

* Mandatory:

GALGANO, M. J. - ARNDT, J. C. - HYSER, R. M., Doing History. Research and Writing in the Digital Age, Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.
ECO, U., How to Write a Thesis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015.

* Recommended:

BLOCH, M. The Historianʼs Craft, New York: Knopf, 1953.
DONNELLY, M. - NORTON, C., Doing History, London - New York: Routledge, 2011.

Examples of Useful History Sources and History Records Search Engines:

https://earlymodernweb.org/resources/index.html

early printed books online

EMLO – Early Modern Letters Online: http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

History Sourcebooks: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook.asp#Introduction

https://en.esbirky.cz/

Last update: Čapská Veronika, doc., Ph.D. (07.10.2021)