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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: Founding a Republic and Building a Democracy
Week 2: Westward Expansion
Week 3: The Civil War
Week 4: Reconstruction and the Politics of Reform
Week 5: Immigration, Empire, and the “Global” United States
Week 6: The Great Depression and World War II
Week 7: Cold War Society
Week 8: The Black Freedom Struggle
Week 9: 1960s Social Revolutions
Week 10: The Conservative Counter-revolution
Week 11: Revision Lecture
Week 12: Reading Week
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 11 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 10 |
Specified Learning Activities | 45 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 45 |
Total | 111 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: End-of-semester essay | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Assignment: Mid-semester essay preparation exercise | Week 6 | n/a | Graded | No | 25 |
Continuous Assessment: Seminar contribution and related activities | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 35 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Dr Jenna Byers | Tutor |
Dr Chiara Tedaldi | Tutor |