We strongly encourage group and panel discussions among students, and interactive sessions with teachers. Discussion on archival sources and visits to historical sites are an integral part of our teaching strategies. We hold a screening of movies and documentaries to enable students to understand historical emotions, attitudes, contexts, and cognitive frameworks. We curate exhibitions of special collections and display historical art effacts in collaboration with Punjab Archives. Regular workshops and seminars encourage students to develop research skills. We also collaborate with reputed international universities for joint online teaching. Students interact with leadings historians and peers in other universities.
Situated near the Punjab Archives, Lahore Museum, National History Museum, Walled City, and the Punjab Public Library, History Department is an ideal place to engage in teaching and research. The University’s Central Library houses many special collections in multiple languages, as well as a rich collection of rare books and archival material dating from the nineteenth century.
The department provides course handbooks to its students to assist them in settling into studies more efficiently. These handbooks contain vital information about weekly lecture breakup, recommended readings, rubrics for assignments and exam questions, and other matters which students will need throughout the course.
The department regularly publishes Graduate Handbook which contains necessary information related to academic advisors, course handbooks, process flow charts of re-sit of midterm examination and course repetition, areas of research for selecting thesis topics, guidelines for writing the thesis, responsibilities of supervisors and supervisees, and rubrics for evaluating BA (Hons)/MPhil theses.
Our assessment strategies consider students' understanding of a historical problem based on scholarly perspectives, theoretical approaches, techniques for analysing primary sources, and students’ points of view about that historical issue. Rubrics for essays, exams, and theses help students to understand the expectations associated with each grade.
The department has two actively working societies that nurture and horn student’s abilities and talents. Garrett History Society is one of the oldest societies at GCU. It focuses mostly on senior classes; organizes workshops, panel discussions with leading historians, seminars, inter-departmental competitions, and study tours.
Undergraduate History Society prepares students for upcoming challenges by organizing customized and need-based workshops, seminars, and study circles. The society has broad networking with such platforms abroad as TedCircles. On monthly basis, the members of society engage in a global conversation with students from different Universities across the world. The department organises various workshops to enhance the soft and hard skills of the students, and to develop their manuscript reading abilities.
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