Undergraduate Thesis Tutorial

Education facts

Code: HI1410

This class is established for exchange students. Designing and writing a thesis entails "doing" history and allows you to explore, in depth, a topic of your choice. The class helps you discover how the historian conducts research and transforms discrete information into a coherent analysis. In the process of conducting research, you will develop analytical skills and gain a basic understanding of historical method. Successful history theses, like the best works of academic scholarship in general, come in many different forms. Some are strongly narrative in design, while others are more overtly framed in relation to specific perspectives or concepts. Whatever form the thesis ultimately takes, the author poses a significant historical problem or question and sets out to address it by examining and analyzing primary sources. The class requires and rewards a much greater level of student initiative. It consists of two sub-courses. The first focuses on historiography and the second on writing a thesis within the parameters of academic form requirements.

Entry requirements

Admission to the course requires the equivalent of 60 higher education credits, 30 of which should be in the field of history or economic history.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Undergraduate Thesis Tutorial

  University of Gothenburg

  Start date: 20 January 2025

  End date: 8 June 2025

  Pace of study: 50 %