|
At the end of the course students are able to review studies of others and their own work from a meta point of view; they can place their own discipline in a wider academic context and they have a reasoned opinion on the validity and the possible uses of historical studies in the 21st century.
|
|
|
This course trains students in philosophical and methodological reflection on the fundamentals of their chosen discipline and learns them to apply these fundamentals to judge their own work and that of others. The following subjects will be discussed: humanities and/versus natural sciences; what is history?; the handling of sources; language matters; possible views on antiquity, middle ages and renaissance; history of reception; making the past topical and relevant for this time.
|
|