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Upon completion of this module, students will be able to:
• Understand the different media through which historians communicate
• Appreciate the conventions and considerations around each of these mediums
• Present history in accessible, robust, and innovative ways
• Deliver public history content across multiple and coordinated platforms
• Have a good working knowledge of core texts in historiography, theory and methodologies in history
Seminar list
1. Introducing Public History (Kelley)
2. Radio and television (Edwards)
3. An agenda for public history (Guldi and Armitage)
4. Primary source analysis: transcription, annotation, contexts
5. Managing historical data (Aydelotte)
6. Museums and the heritage sector (Winter)
7. Exhibitions: media and space (Carnegie)
8. Reading week
9. Publication: producing and writing public history (Carr)
10. Writing a funding proposal (Hirsch)
11. Metrics, impact, and legacy (Smith)
12. Overview: an agenda for Irish Public History (Hobsbawm)
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 20 |
Specified Learning Activities | 95 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 95 |
Total | 210 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: Taking one of the themes or concepts from the course readings, explore its applicability to your proposed dissertation topic. 3,000 words including footnotes but excluding bibliography. |
Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Continuous Assessment: Using a selected primary source document, provide an annotated transcription along with a scholarly introduction situating the manuscript in its historical context (1,000 words) and a bibliography | Week 7 | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Feedback on the mid-term assignment is given in writing on the returned hard-copy. Feedback on the end-of-semester assignment will be given by appointment in one-to-one meetings. It is the student's responsibility to book a post-module feedback session with the module coordinator.