This is the home page for the Department of Historical Studies' MA unit, Introduction to information technology and quantitative methods for contemporary historians (known as IT-MA). Those beginning the unit should start their exploration of the pages underlying this home page by consulting in sequence the Introduction, Unit objectives etc. With these completed you can then proceed to the self-learning course unit materials located at Weekly assignments and thence on to the appropriate week. To obtain help, see Getting help. Those who, whether through owning their own computer or having access to a PC, who hope to complete this unit by means oth er than through using the computing facilities we provide should also read the notes on students' PCs.

• Introduction
• Unit objectives
• Unit structure, assessment and timetable
• Getting help
• Resources
• Weekly assignments (WEEK 1 = week beginning 9 October 2000).

To Department of Historical Studies home page.

These pages are maintained and owned by Dr Roger Middleton

(c)R. Middleton 1997. Last modified 4 September 2000.