Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- key secondary source material relating to historical figures and communities.
- the history of individuals, communities, and texts, in particular the way in which historians construct meaning out of documents and accounts written within specific contexts.
- key primary sources relating to historical figures and communities.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- utilise and develop your time-management skills.
- research historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written essays and reviews.
- locate and use effective textual, visual and material culture sources in the library and on-line, synthesising this material in order to develop cogent arguments.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- structure your ideas and research findings into well-ordered essays.
- analyse critically a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.
- engage with secondary literature on specific individuals or communities, and contribute to the debates relating to the historiography of individuals and communities and its relationship to the wider world.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 50 |
Wider reading or practice | 26 |
Seminar | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 50 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
E. le Roy Ladurie (1990). Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324. London: Penguin.
Smith, A. (2018). The Man Who Built The Swordfish: The Life of Sir Richard Fairey 1887-1956. I.B. Tauris.
C. Ginzburg (1981). The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. London: Routledge.
N. Zemon Davis (1983). The return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
David Brown (2012). Palmerston: A biography. Yale University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 60% |
Written assignment | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External