HI-603 Working with primary sources i environmental humanities
- ECTS Credits:
- 5
- Responsible department:
- Faculty of Humanities and Education
- Course Leader:
- May-Brith Ohman Nielsen
- Lecture Semester:
- Autumn
- Teaching language:
- English
- Duration:
- 1 term
The course is connected to the following study programs
Teaching language
EnglishPrerequisites
Students must be admitted to a relevant PhD-programme.
Participants need to have prepared a 20 minutes presentation of their own source work with samples of their main source types.
Course contents
The objective of this course is to give the PhD-candidates hands-on experience with a variety of primary sources in environmental humanities and to provide them with an analytical approach to the concept of environmental literacy in their own source work and scholarly development. This should serve to expand and deepen their environmental literacy and to enrich their concept of sources and their approach to source-work in their PhD-thesis and/or as an environmental humanities scholar.
Among the primary sources dealt with in this course are documents, oral sources, waste, gardens and parks, coastal landscapes and ocean plastic pollution.
The course will use extensive student-active forms of teaching and learning. The course will be half outdoor fieldwork in exposed coastal environments and in urban family gardens, and half lab work in indoor group settings.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the PhD-candidates will have
Knowledge
Advanced understanding of the concept of primary sources and hands on experience with variety of primary sources in environmental humanities
Advanced understanding of the concept of environmental literacy and also the ability to work with and reflect on the development of environmental literacy in their own source work and professional development.
Advanced understanding of the concept and impact of time and space in interpretation of sources and in development of environmental literacy.
Skills
Acquired the ability to do discuss and analyse the different types of primary source material dealt with in the course and be better prepared to consider and expand the use of source material in their own research and professional work.
The ability to discuss the impact of time and space in the work with and interpretation of primary sources.
The ability to reflect on their own professional development as researchers in environmental literacy terms and in particular in relation to their work with primary sources.
The ability to carry out an advanced discussion of the specific source work in their thesis and of their own particular environmental literacy as a prerequisite for this work.
General competence
The ability to identify and discuss the value of different aspects of environmental literacies within and beyond environmental humanities and reflect upon how these insights may be transformed into outreach or dissemination strategies.
Examination requirements
Participation in the 4 days course seminars and the student work throughout the seminar. 20 minutes presentation of the candidates own source work at the seminar.
Teaching methods
35 hours of participation in lectures, workshops, seminars, field excursions, and group activity assignments during 4 days of course. Self-studies of 600 pages syllabus. One prepared 20 minutes presentation during the course.
Assessment methods and criteria
Exam paper, of approximately 3500 words, handed in before an announced date 8 weeks after the course. The grading will be passed / not passed.