Learning Outcomes:
Students who complete this module should be able to:1. Demonstrate an understanding of diverse academic viewpoints and methodologies;2. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the role of history outside academia; 3. Assess the importance of history and its uses in wider society; 4. Analyse how history is used by states, institutions and entrepreneurs; 5. Be familiar with the historiography and techniques public history;6. Demonstrate a knowledge of research skills that are fundamental to historical inquiry and more broadly applicable;7. Submit written work appropriate to a Stage Two student of History.
Indicative Module Content:
The module will be drawn from the following main topics:
Week 1: ‘How it really was’?: An Introduction to ‘History Today’
Week 2: Revolting historians: How the present can change the past
Week 3: Ordinary people: History from below
Week 4: Changing the subject: Finding women, and others, in the past
Week 5: Changing the rules: Gender, sexuality, and identity
Week 6: Changing perspectives: Race, ethnicity, and power
Week 7: Looking for the big picture: Global History
Week 8: Reading Week
Week 9: Memory and Cultural Turns
Week 10: When the old becomes new: The case for Political, Diplomatic and Military Histories
Week 11: The Historian as Activist?