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HIS 101 Introduction to History

100 levelArts & Humanities8 topics

HIS 101 covers 8 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Meaning, nature and subject matter of history
  2. History as the basis of all disciplines
  3. Relationship of history with the humanities and social sciences
  4. Sources of history: primary and secondary sources
  5. Tools and methods of the historian
  6. Branches of history
  7. Objectivity and interpretation in history
  8. Principles, uses and relevance of history

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Meaning, nature and subject matter of history

This topic introduces history as a disciplined study of the human past, not just a collection of dates or stories. For the exam, you must master what history means, its nature as evidence-based interpretation, and its subject matter so you can distinguish history from myth, memory, literature, and mere chronology.

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