Learning Outcomes:
1) Gain the ability to understand the state of the field of global history
2) Learn to categorise, synthesise, and mobilise readings and discussions under thematic groupings to build upon in students’ own research over the course of their MA studies
3) Critically engage with diverse secondary sources and learn to read these as primary texts and against the grain
4) Practice utilising historiographical framings to provide new insights, challenge master-narratives, and uncover marginalised perspectives; in so doing students will reflect on issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion
5) Focus the skills of historians: how to locate and read academic texts, how to frame research, how to present historical findings through written work similar in structure to peer-reviewed journal articles and book reviews and gain confidence orally presenting in small group settings
Indicative Module Content:
MODULE OVERVIEW
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: What is Global History?
Week 3: Is Global History Useful?
Week 4: International and Internationalising History
Week 5: Transnational Collisions
Week 6: Nation and Imagi(nation)
Week 7: Global microhistory
Week 8: Reading Week
Week 9: Oceanic and Terraqueous Histories
Week 10: Time and Temporality
Week 11: Decolonising Global History
Week 12: Essay Workshop