EARLY MODERN PALAEOGRAPHY ARTMED5015

  • Academic Session: 2011-12
  • School: School of Humanities
  • Credits: 5
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester Two
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes

Course Aims

Thhis course aims to allow Information Management and Preservation students to develop their critical sensitivity with regard to handwritten material from a variety of primary sources.

Specifically:

1. to familiarise students with a variety of different examples, exhibiting different styles, of early modern handwriting;
2. to provide training in the reading and transcription of early modern handwritten documents;
3. to provide training in the analysis of early modern handwritten documents for research and archive administration purposes.

Timetable

2 hours weekly for 5 weeks

Requirements of Entry

Participants must be a registered postgraduate student in HATII.