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HIS42020

Academic Year 2024/2025

Disseminating History (HIS42020)

Subject:
History
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
History
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Professor Tadhg O' Hannrachain
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module facilitates graduate students in developing the skills required to disseminate their historical ideas and writing. The idea is that students design, organise and prepare for an MA conference, which will take place in week 12. After an initial two-hour session with the module co-ordinator graduate students will be divided into workshop groups. These groups will then meet with the module co-ordinator for four two-hour workshop sessions during the trimester (at times designated by the module co-ordinator). In these workshops students will discuss their thesis ideas for presentation at the end of module conference. Various tasks will be set by the module co-ordinator that must be completed during these workshops.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

a) develop organisational and presentation skills
b) develop communication and discussion skills via workshops
c) learn through peer review and teamwork
d) learn to develop and advertise an intellectual idea
e) develop an academic paper for public presentation
f) organise a conference

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Small Group

8

Seminar (or Webinar)

10

Specified Learning Activities

95

Autonomous Student Learning

95

Total

208


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Active/task-based learning; peer and group work; lectures; reflective learning

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
Assignment(Including Essay): Conference Abstract Week 7 Graded No

20

No
Assignment(Including Essay): 3 Learning Journals Week 4, Week 9, Week 12 Graded No

25

No
Group Work Assignment: Performance in conference organization Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Graded No

25

No
Assignment(Including Essay): Presentation in both oral and written form. Week 12, Week 14 Graded No

30

No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback will be delivered via Brightspace for all submitted pieces of work and/or via face-to-face meetings with the module coordinator.