Specialized heuristics and exercises on questions of history : antiquity

Teacher(s)

Van Haeperen Françoise;

Language

French

Prerequisites

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The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

The student is progressively introduced to working tools, synthesizing works and important monographs, as well as the typology of sources for the period considered. These exercises are designed to complement the corresponding heuristics course. During group exercise sessions, various sources related to the period concerned are successively presented and analysed, on the basis of a preliminary, personal work by students.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

By the end of the course, the students should be capable of carrrying out documentary research for the ancient period, situating it in the context of the problems analysed as finely as possible and grasping the link between the problem and recourse to documentation. By the end of the exercises, the student should be capable of successfully carrying out in-depth study of documents related to ancient history (nature of the source, contents, critical problems, interest).

Content

Introduction to the sources used in ancient history (mainly literary, epigraphic and papyrological).
Introduction and training in the use of the major source collections and working tools available to the ancient historian.
Exercises are designed to familiarize students with the main sources and tools used in ancient history.

Evaluation methods

Continuous assessment based on practical exercises.
Two unjustified absences from exercise sessions make it impossible to take part in further exercises

Teaching materials

• diaporamas; recueil bibliographique; recueil de textes; notes manuscrites des étudiants

Faculty or entity

EHAC