HIST337 COMPUTER AIDED RESEARCH TECHNIQUES IN HISTORY
| Course Code: | 2400337 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 1.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 7.0 |
| Department: | History |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Lecturer Dr. AHMET HİLMİ GÜVEN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- Provide students with the knowledge and skills to identify, access, and utilize conventional and electronic resources for historical research.
- Develop proficiency in using digital tools, databases, and software for processing and managing electronic sources and historical texts.
- Cultivate an understanding of citation standards, e-resource referencing, and web publishing in historical scholarship.
Course Content
-Classification of conventional resources (archive, museum, 1 st Hand, 2 nd Hand, etc.) and their formats
-Electronical resources and their types (converting conventional resources into digital technology and 1 st Hand e-sources)
-Recognition, processing and mutual conversion techniques of e-sources, installation and setup routines of the required software.
-Acknowledgement of e-archives in Turkey (State Archives, Grand National Assembly, National Library, etc.)and digital resources, e-library, e-books, e-articles, electronic databases
-Search for e-articles and access to texts (JSTOR, Academic Search, EBSCO, ERIC, Elsevier, Oxford, Google-academics, vs)
-Effective course search in leading engines (Google, Bing, etc)
-Access to e-dissertations, e-Theses, and processing techniques, library catalog systems, Library of Congress e-resources
-Reference and citation styles (APA, Chicago, MLA), citing methods of electronic resources including footnote, end note and bibliography
-Internet tools (http://,ftp://,telnet://) and required software protocols, access to historical texts and maps using ftp sources
-Web page techniques, launching a personal web-site and publishing
Course Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to classify conventional and digital resources, recognize their formats, and apply appropriate search strategies (i.e. using boolean logic and truncated and wildcard searches) to access and evaluate these materials.
- Students will gain hands-on experience with converting conventional resources to digital formats, processing electronic sources, and using specialized software for historical research.
- Students will be proficient in academic citation styles, referencing electronic resources, and using web tools to create and manage personal research pages or digital history projects.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | are familiar with general world historical periods and trends; demonstrate knowledge of key facts, ideas, societies, organizations, cultures, structures and processes related to a variety of historical contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | are familiar with existing scholarly literature, historiography and historical methodology; and have developed the ability to approach them critically. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | are acquainted with interdisciplinary approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | are able to generate research questions and conduct independent historical research by locating and analyzing primary and/or secondary sources; can construct viable arguments based on source interpretation. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | have developed sufficient English language skills; additionally, they have acquired the skill to read both printed texts and manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | are able to present research results both in oral and written form. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | are able to work individually or as part of a team. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | are equipped with academic ethics. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | are aware of modern day issues and current events; have the skills and knowledge to generate informed opinions. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution