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On completion of this module students should have:
• Further developed their understanding of essential skills for history students;
• Advanced their appreciation of how history is studied at university level;
• Acquired a critical approach to evidence and an ability to study and learn more effectively;
• Developed their powers of expression, both orally and in writing;
• Developed their ability to appreciate and analyse the development of the United States from the founding of the republic to the end of the Cold War;
• Developed their understanding of the dynamic social, political, economic, ideological, and external forces at play in the development of US society and politics.
Week 1: No Level 1 lectures or seminars
Week 2: Founding a Republic and Building a Democracy
Week 3: Westward Expansion
Week 4: Slavery and the Civil War
Week 5: Reconstruction and the Politics of Reform
Week 6: Immigration, Empire, and the “Global” United States
Week 7: The Great Depression and World War II
Week 8: Reading Week (no lectures or seminars)
Week 9: Cold War Society
Week 10: The Black Freedom Struggle
Week 11: 1960s Social Revolutions
Week 12: The Rise of the Right
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Specified Learning Activities | 45 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 45 |
Lectures | 11 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 10 |
Total | 111 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Presentation: Group presentation based on review of one of the weekly readings | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Continuous Assessment: Contributions to Discussion Boards | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Continuous Assessment: Seminar participation | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Professor Ryan Irwin | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Jenna Byers | Tutor |
Krystal Carmichael | Tutor |
Miss Krystal Carmichael | Tutor |
Dr Chiara Tedaldi | Tutor |
Dr Conor Tobin | Tutor |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 11:00 - 11:50 |
Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 13:00 - 13:50 |
Seminar | Offering 2 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 14:00 - 14:50 |
Seminar | Offering 3 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 14:00 - 14:50 |
Seminar | Offering 4 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 15:00 - 15:50 |
Seminar | Offering 5 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 15:00 - 15:50 |
Seminar | Offering 6 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 16:00 - 16:50 |
Seminar | Offering 7 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 16:00 - 16:50 |
Seminar | Offering 8 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Wed 10:00 - 10:50 |
Seminar | Offering 9 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Wed 10:00 - 10:50 |
Seminar | Offering 10 | Week(s) - 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Wed 11:00 - 11:50 |
Seminar | Offering 10 | Week(s) - 8 | Wed 11:00 - 11:50 |
Seminar | Offering 11 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Wed 11:00 - 11:50 |
Seminar | Offering 12 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Wed 12:00 - 12:50 |
Seminar | Offering 13 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Wed 12:00 - 12:50 |
Seminar | Offering 14 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Wed 13:00 - 13:50 |
Seminar | Offering 15 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 12:00 - 12:50 |
Seminar | Offering 16 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 12:00 - 12:50 |
Seminar | Offering 17 | Week(s) - Autumn: Weeks 2-12 | Tues 13:00 - 13:50 |