HIS42490 Landscape and Environment in Ireland, 1500-1800

Academic Year 2022/2023

*** Not available in the academic year indicated above ***

This module addresses the impact and influence of environment and landscape on the peoples and societies of Ireland from 1500 to 1800. The module considers how human settlement changed rural and urban landscapes and it reviews how the island’s inhabitants interpreted landscape and environment in the same period. Increasingly, historians have recognised that landscapes are a cultural construction which are reflective of a diverse amalgam of ideologies and iconographies. Within the context of early modern environmental change, landscapes were informed and determined by social and political processes and as such are indicative of a diversity of economic, political and cultural influences. Ireland was transformed socially, culturally and politically during the three centuries from 1500 to 1800. In this regard, Ireland’s rich history in the early modern period offers an ideal case study from which to assess and understand the impact of environmental change and related developments on rural and urban landscapes. In particular, the module considers the environmental and landscape impact of political and social transformation in the context of Ireland’s economic and demographic incorporation within a broader European and Atlantic context.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

• understand key debates and concepts related to landscape and environment in Ireland;
• analyse primary sources relevant to the module;
• present arguments, based on primary and secondary source research, in oral and written form;
• Enhance critical reading, writing, thinking, and verbal skills

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

22
Specified Learning Activities

100
Autonomous Student Learning

100
Total

222
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This is a small-group, seminar-based postgraduate module. It is taught through weekly two-hour seminars. The weekly seminar is focused upon individual and group active / task-based learning by means of class debates, discussion and student presentations. Advanced research, writing and citation skills are developed through an individual student presentation and a semester-long 4,000 word research project. Autonomous learning is advanced through student-led debate and discussion each week. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Project: An end of semester 4,000 word research paper Week 12 n/a Graded No

70
Continuous Assessment: Student participation in seminars and a class presentation Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

30

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback on the class Presentation will be given in writing on the returned hard-copy. Written and oral feedback will be provided on an ongoing basis on preparatory plans and primary and secondary source bibliographies for end-of-semester Research Project Assignments. Feedback on the end-of-semester Research Project Assignment will be given by appointment in one-to-one meetings.