Aims

By the end of this seminar, the student should be capable of putting the historian's procedure into practice in the context of the documentary and critical study of a precise question in modern history.

Main themes

This seminar is designed as a preparation for the corresponding master's seminar. During the group working sessions, based on preliminary personal work, each participant presents his analysis of an aspect of the chosen theme, paying particular attention to the heuristic and critical aspects. The procedures and stages of the treatment, as well as the global synthesis and conclusions, are brought out together.

Content and teaching methods

Evaluation: Based on active participation in the seminar and the capacity to present a personal work both orally and in writing.
Teaching materials: Student notes.
Teaching: by the lecturer and, in some cases, the assistants assigned by the Department.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Concrete application, in common, of the historical method to a determinate subject (questionnaires, heuristics, critique, analysis and synthesis). Then each of the participants is assigned an aspect of the chosen theme. Each is closely accompanied in his personal work. The general conclusions are reached together.

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