By teaching definition, objectives and the history of History as a subject, it is aimed in this course to be able to do a research using the scientific criteria; to evaluate the results of research. To learn and apply ethical rules in writing scientific research.

In this course, the students are given information about the definition of history, its subject, historical sciences, calendars and translations. The importance and ways of accessing information during the research and examination are explained. To determine the accuracy of information, to use encyclopedic and bibliographic tools, in this way to access the resources related to the research topic, library search methods and methods of accessing the archive catalogs are explained.