Major Thesis - History

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• demonstrate a capacity for articulating historical questions and the appropriate methodologies for investigating them;
• exhibit a familiarity with relevant historiography and an ability to locate one's research within that literature;
• identify relevant research repositories and materials and show a capacity for sustained and discerning research within them;
• express research findings in lucid, effective prose which uses appropriate historical conventions of documentation.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• demonstrate a capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning;
• show intellectual curiosity and creativity, including understanding of philosophical and methodological bases of research activity;
• demonstrate highly developed cognitive, analytic and problem-solving skills.