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This course introduces graduate students to the critical use and application of oral history for academic research as well as professional and cultural activities. Designed from a practical perspective, the course is centred on activities to facilitate students’ understanding of the fundamentals of oral history. The first half of the course addresses key theoretical issues, while introducing students to each of the main oral history research steps that they will undertake throughout the semester. The remaining half takes students through each of the main steps in implementing their oral history research project. Students’ oral history research projects may be informed by topics from other courses, including their larger research projects.

This Practicum exercise is structured around the core content of the courses offered over the two years of the Programme with the intention of broadening and deepening, by means of a supervised practical attachment, the knowledge and skills of the students in their chosen areas of concentration. Students are provided with an opportunity to test, improve and further develop their conceptual and practical abilities in relation to any of the areas of programme concentration: