https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/L_AABAGES208At the end of the course, students are able to: Understand the specificities of oral history and biography as sources and methods of historical research and assess their value.Prepare, conduct, and interpret an oral history interview, and store it in a digital repository for reuse.Critically reflect on oral history and the biographical method and take up an informed position in (sensitive) academic debates on these sources and methods, including their digital reuse.This is an intensive methodological course on oral history research and the biographical method. In a series of seminars, you learn how to assess, interpret and reuse oral histories and biographical sources for historical research. You also learn how to conduct oral history interviews by co-creating a collection with your fellow students on a given topic.Seminars, 4 to 6 hours per week in total. Attendance is mandatory.Class participation Oral history interviewEssayLynn Abrams, Oral History Theory (2016) and a selection of articles. The full reading list will be made available to students at the start of the course.This course is open to BA 2 students Geschiedenis and History & International studies, and students in the History minor. Other students from the Humanities and Social Sciences are welcome to join, but must have completed all of their first year courses and should contact the coordinator first in order to be admitted to the course.This course is also part of the minor History.Students must have successfully completed their first year of study.Students should have successfully completed first-year coursework in academic writing and research skills.Teaching materials, including handouts and powerpoints, will be made available online on Canvas after each seminar. The textbook and literature used are available from the university library in digital format.