Exercises
| Title | Subtitle | Description | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Citation | Exercise on Citation Practice in Historical Research | This exercise teaches the fundamentals of academic citation in historical research, with a particular focus on the critical use of generative AI. You will learn how citations function as a methodological tool to make historical arguments traceable and verifiable, and how to structure AI-assisted writing so that the chain of evidence remains intact. | Methods |
| Academic Writing | Role-Based Exercise Set along the Writing Process | An exercise that trains the use of generative AI as a writing assistant in multiple roles – with focus on traceability, argument logic, and linguistic precision. | Methods |
| Formulating a Historical Research Question | Switzerland and the Council of Europe | A guided exercise for the systematic development of an analytical historical research question with reflective use of generative AI. | Methods |
| Literature Research and Analysis | History of Social Security in Switzerland | A guided exercise for systematic literature research and problem-oriented literature analysis with critically controlled use of generative AI. | Methods |
| Prompt Engineering | Historical Work with LLMs: Controlled Heuristics, Reproducibility, Evidence Discipline | An exercise that trains central prompting techniques (basics, roles, zero-/few-shot, structured thinking trace, iterative prompting, optimization) using historical science work processes. | AI & Digital Methods |
| Public History and History Communication | Knowledge Communication along the Writing and Production Process | Exercise set for target audience-oriented communication of a scholarly article in multiple formats (blog, podcast, social media, poster, interview) – with audit trail, source veto, and methodological transparency. | Public History |
| Source Criticism | Federal Council and Council of Europe 1949 | A guided exercise for systematic external and internal source criticism of a diplomatic memorandum (Dodis). | Sources |
| Source Search for a Historical Research Question | The Vorort and Council of Europe Accession 1963 | A guided exercise for systematic source searching (primary/secondary/tertiary) with reflective use of generative AI. | Sources |
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