Compulsory and elective courses

Kisan, Korea. The National Museum, Copenhagen. Photo by John Lee. CC-BY-SA

Objectives

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• l discuss how methods in the humanities and social sciences are manifested in an academic thesis,
• account for the different parts of a Master’s thesis and their relation,
• present a plan for their own thesis,
• account for and apply critical collection of data and information, account for the importance of different methods to solve specific research questions, analytically explain the relation between argument, analyses and conclusions in an academic project,
• independently identify and evaluate different perspectives and experiences in historical and contemporary documentation, focusing on colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Content

This course discusses methods in the humanities and the social sciences, focusing on postcolonial perspectives, with the aim of the students developing knowledge necessary to identify and accumulate new information, analyse and assess complex phenomena and descriptions, and draw conclusions correctly in an advanced academic analysis. The students practise their ability to work with literary texts and non­written sources in historical and contemporary material.