Methods in the Humanities
The method courses - some mandatory, some elective - provide you with the essential methodological skills for your Humanities study.
For Fall 2024 cohort and after
- For all Humanities majors, the level 1 course UCACCMET13 Rhetoric is mandatory.
- At level 2, see the options below.
Starting in Fall 2024: Broadening the methodology offering for (Interdomain) Humanities majors
The changes to the HUM (and some SSC) methodology options are added to the ARR of 2024-2025, pre-enrolment for that year already started In March 2024.
The content of UCACCMET25 Humanities Lab and some of its modules has been reworked into a new set of methodology courses starting in 2024-2025. These will stay in place as methodology requirement options for a HUM major and some fields in SSC. Modules UCACCMET2E Predicate Logic, and MET2G Stylistics will be discontinued and their contents moved into MET25 and MET26 (new).
In addition, some other existing courses will now function as options for the HUM methodology requirement while remaining accessible to all other students (see courses below). Other students may even have priority placement in case of oversubscription. If you’ve already taken any of these courses at UCU in past years, they will be added to your methodology requirement retrospectively.
Which course for which field?
There are no strict methodology prerequisites for any of the HUM disciplines. Some level 3 course and thesis outlines may have a recommendation though. Your tutor, teachers, and fellows can advise. Recommendations:
| MET 22/23 Applied Multivariate Statistics, STA21 Biostatistics | for research involving statistics (e.g. LIN, HIS) |
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| MET24 Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life | for ethnographic work (e.g. CHI, HAR, LIN, MES, PES) |
| MET25 Critical Discourse Analysis + 2,5 EC (2M, 2L) | for analysis of power embedded in discourse (all fields, esp LIT, HIS, MES, PES, REL) |
| MET26 Formal Logic | for understanding language, reasoning and information flow using tools from logic (all fields, esp LIN, PHI) |
| MET2J Making Sense of Data + 2,5 EC (2D, 2M, 2L) | for data analysis (e.g. LIN, HIS, MES) |
| WRI21 Creative Writing | for training good writing (e.g. LIT, HAR, MES, PES, PHI) |