From Manuscript to Thesis

Course goals

Students who have finished this course will have:

• reflected on and refreshed skills and knowledge acquired in the BA programme;
• produced a thesis proposal in preparation to write their BA thesis;
• produced a textual edition with commentary on an Old Irish and a Middle Welsh text.

Content

This course serves several purposes. The first is to refresh and consolidate the skills and knowledge students have acquired during the BA Celtic programme. This includes language skills (Medieval Irish and Welsh) from the first year but also further applications and refinements gained through the specialisation courses. The second purpose is to introduce students to the art of producing textual editions, which requires all the skills they have learned thus far, plus a few new ones. Finally, this course has students produce a thesis proposal so that they are ready to start researching and writing their thesis at the beginning of period 4.

Additional information

Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final and may still be modified until the 3rd Wednesday in September.