HIST 212 — Historical Methodology
History · University of Ghana
The course looks at the present and the past: time and historical perspective; contemporary pre-occupations, dominant trends in historical thinking; changing historical methodologies etc. as an element in the historian‘s image of the past. It also deals with the historian facts and reconstruction of the Past and facts or evidence: scales of certitude; facts and their intermediaries; the historian‘s task–making the past a living and immediate experience; framework and standards of assessment, historical sources: written documents (primary and secondary sources); oral tradition; linguistic material and reconstruction of the past, causation in history: explanation in history; narrative and analysis; the individual and society; hindsight in historical explanation; determinism and freewill in the context of historical causation, the Marxist view of History; the question of objectivity in history, the Whig interpretation of history and the relationship between history and other disciplines.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 211 — Historiography
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
- HIST 213 — Africa and the Wider World in the 19th Century
- HIST 214 — Africa in the International Setting in the 20th century
- HIST 311 — History of Ghana up to 1800
- HIST 313 — History of Africa up to 1500
- HIST 315 — The Black Diaspora
- HIST 317 — Economic History of West Africa: 1700 to 1890
- HIST 319 — Aspects of Early Modern European History
- HIST 321 — Islam and Christianity in Africa
- HIST 322 — Ghana in the 19th and the 20th Centuries
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).