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Students taking this module will:
1. Develop their own ideas and realise those ideas through practical projects.
2. Understand the value of historical skills in the context of modern careers;
3. Examine the potential of a career in history;
4. Receive basic training in the production and presentation of history in modern media;
5. Develop individual skills within a collaborative framework;
6. Undertake practical projects in history.
Class List:
Week 1: Practising Public History: An Introduction
Week 2: Exhibiting History 1: Design and Format (computer lab, room number to be notified in week 1)
Week 3: Exhibiting History 2: Content and Presentation (computer lab, room number to be notified in week 1)
Week 4: From the Archives 1: Document Selection
Week 5: Historical Audio Content Production 1: From Pre-Production to Delivery
Week 6: Historical Audio Content Production 2: The Pitch
Week 7: Production Week (podcasting slots to be provided)
Week 8: Research Week
Week 9: WordPress design
Week 10: From the Archives 2: Contextualisation Training
Week 11: Dissertation workshop: planning your thesis
Week 12: Conclusion: presentation week, the public history practitioner
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 20 |
Specified Learning Activities | 90 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 90 |
Total | 200 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Portfolio: Portfolio of projects | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 100 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Students to arrange an appointment during module coordinator's office hours to receive feedback on each portfolio piece following submission and grading. Interim feedback on the exhibition project will be given to the class which the class will then have to implement prior to final submission of the exhibition project. It is the student's responsibility to book an end of module feedback session with the module coordinator following the release of results.
Name | Role |
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Mr Shane Browne | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Conor Mulvagh | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |