This course aims at introducing the basic concepts of history and the historian and developing students’ fundamental skills of conducting historical research and writing. These skills include using reference tools, locating and studying various historical documents, formulating research questions, identifying different categories of historical materials and their features, criticizing, analyzing and organizing historical data, mastering the principles of historical writing and its various styles and academic formats, grasping techniques of oral presentation and discussion, etc. Visits to libraries, archives, museums or field trips may also be arranged.

1. General Introduction: Historical Methodology (10 Sep)

2. History, Historiography and the Historian (17 Sep)

3. Categories, Classes and Collection of Historical Materials (24 Sep)

4. Historical Research Using Library Resources and Reference Materials (8 Oct)

5. Historical Research and Archives and Museums (15 Oct)

6. Identification and Criticism of Historical Materials (22 Oct)

7. Processing Historical Materials for Application (29 Oct)

8. Deduction of Historical Events and Construction of the Past (5 Nov)

9. Fundamental Skills for Historical Study (12 Nov)

10. Principles, Formats, and Academic Standards for Historical Writing (19 Nov)

11. Historical thinking and Presentation Techniques (26 Nov)

12. Examplary historians’ Views on Historical Studies (3 Dec)

13. Conclusion: Contemporary Historians and Trend of Historical Studies (7 Dec 2:30-4:15pm; Venue to be confirmed)

Term Paper 70%

Interactive Tutorial 30%

a. Online Video Quiz 5%

b. “U Reply” Multiple Choice Test 15%

c. Term Paper Presentation & Comment 10%

Two Visits & Three Tutorial Classes

1) Visit to University Library in Oct

2) Visit to Hong Kong Museum of History in Oct

3) Term Paper Discussion

上課日期：10月(Oct)

要求：同學須在導修課當日向老師和助教提交約500字報告，簡介學期論文題目及其內容大要。

4) Term Paper Presentation & Comment I

上課日期：11月(Nov)

要求：每位同學報告自己的論文及評論其他組員的論文各一次。同學們在本次導修課被安排報告，則在另一次導修課作評論。報告先後由助教安排。

5) Term Paper Presentation & Comment II

上課日期：11月(Nov)

要求：每位同學報告自己的論文及評論其他組員的論文各一次。同學們在本次導修課被安排報告，則在另一次修課作評論。報告先後由助教安排。

杜維運：《史學方法論》。北京：北京大學出版社，2006。

張存武、陶晉生編：《歷史學手冊》。台北：食貨出版社，1977。

許冠三：《史學與史學方法》(校訂本)上下冊。香港：龍門書店，1975。

林鐵森主編：《中國歷史工具書指南》。北京：北京出版社，1992。

嚴耕望：《治史答問》。臺北：臺灣商務印書館，1988。

朱政惠、胡逢祥主編：《全球視野下的史學：區域性與國際性》。上海：上海辭書出版社，2011。

Wilkinson, Endymion Porter. Chinese History: A Manual. Cambridge, Mass.: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000.

Cohen, Daniel J. and Rosenzweig, Roy. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Cannadire, D. What Is History Now? New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Carr, E.H. What Is History? London: Macmillan, 1962.

The Chicago Manual of Style Online.15th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Chicago-Style Citation QuickGuide. 15th & 16th edition.

Collingwood, R.G. The Idea of History. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Shafer, Robert Jones. A Guide to Historical Method. Homewood, Illinois: The Dorsey Press, 1974.

Robert C. W. The Historian’s Toolbox: A Student’s Guide to the Theory and Craft of History. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2012

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at here.

With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.

• In the case of group projects, all members of the group should be asked to sign the declaration, each of whom is responsible and liable to disciplinary actions, irrespective of whether he/she has signed the declaration and whether he/she has contributed, directly or indirectly, to the problematic
• For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students’ uploading of the soft copy of the assignment. 
• Students are fully aware that their work may be investigated by AI content detection software to determine originality.
• Students are fully aware of the AI approach(es) adopted in the course. In the case where some AI tools are allowed, students have made proper acknowledgment and citations as instructed by the course teacher.

Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers.

Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.

The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose (e.g. to satisfy the requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall be regarded as having committed undeclared multiple submissions. It is common and acceptable to reuse a turn of phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case, agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the piece of work.

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