HIS21300 Marathon

Academic Year 2024/2025

This module is designed to get students using their historical imagination, by placing themselves in the role of a historical character or a participant in a controversial historical event. It is a small-group, seminar-based module and at the end of the semester it includes a day-long seminar where students present their own, originally composed document

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

To enable students to appreciate historical sources, context and nuance and to enable them to give expression to their historical imaginations.

Indicative Module Content:

Seminars, group discussions, presentations, archive visits.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

87

Autonomous Student Learning

87

Lectures

0

Seminar (or Webinar)

26

Total

200

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Group work, discussions, seminars, student presentations and critical reading of primary and secondary sources. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Participation in Learning Activities: Participation in seminars, including contribution to class discussions Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10 Graded No

25

No
Assignment(Including Essay): Mid-term document analysis of primary source document relating to the course themes Week 7 Graded No

25

No
Exam (In-person): Writing and presentation of the Marathon Document. Each student will compose and present their own original document, based on original research as they they take on the role of a historical character Week 11 Graded No

50

No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

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