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On successful completion of this module students should:
a) study, writing and communication skills appropriate to Level 4;
b) have developed a critical understanding of the topic and an awareness of the key concepts and methodologies that historians have used to approach the social history of the two World Wars in Ireland and Britain
c) the ability to handle historical sources, and to critically evaluate a range of primary sources.
Weekly Seminar topics
1. Gender and women’s history: an introduction
2. Writing Women and war
3. Service and sacrifice: articulating mobilisation in diaries and memoirs
4. Observing the war: Interpreting home front experiences
5. Student meetings and independent research
6. Remembering and narrating war: oral history testimonies from Ireland
7. Wartime Work and emancipation
8. Domesticity, labour and the double burden
9. Gender, sexuality and social morality
10. Families at war: separation and reunion
11. Commemorating women and war
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 22 |
Specified Learning Activities | 95 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 95 |
Total | 212 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Project: This is a research essay of c. 4,000 words, based on work undertaken over the 11 weeks of term. | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Continuous Assessment: This includes learning journals and seminar participation | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Students will receive individual feedback on their assessments after submission of their assignments during the trimester. Feedback will be typically provided online through Brightspace.