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• 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
Week 1 Peoples and Landscapes in early modern Ireland
Week 2 Migration in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland
Week 3 Ireland in the Atlantic World
Week 4 Migration, ethnicity and conflict in 1641
Week 5 Changing Irish landscapes 1500-1800
Week 6 Urban landscapes: early modern Dublin
Week 7 Provincial urban landscapes
Week 8 Landscapes of the Ascendancy
Week 9 The Penal Laws and Landscape / Environment
Week 10 Environmental change in early modern Ireland
Week 11 Class Presentations
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 22 |
Specified Learning Activities | 100 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 100 |
Total | 222 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: 4,000 word research paper | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 70 |
Continuous Assessment: Students will be assessed on their participation in seminars throughout the semester, including prior preparation and a 20 minute class presentation | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Feedback will be given throughout the module both orally and in writing via Brightsapce