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On completion of the module students should:
a) have developed study, writing and communication skills appropriate to level 4.
b) have developed a critical understanding of the topic as part of broader changes in society through writing essays and participation in seminars.
c) be able to assess a range of historical and inter-disciplinary approaches within the discipline.
d) be able to handle historical sources, and to evaluate a range of primary sources and their potential use to historians appropriate to level 4.
Seminar topics may include:
Welcome and Introduction
Archives, Nationhood and Sovereignty
Medical History and Archival Collections
Religious and Care Institutions
Archives and Censorship
Oral History and ‘Witnessing’: Theory and Practice
Traveller Community: Inclusions and Exclusions
Race and the Archival Curation
Invisible Histories: Gender Perspectives
Radical Empathy? Archives and Activism
Historians and Archival Tools
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 20 |
Project Supervision | 6 |
Specified Learning Activities | 90 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 104 |
Total | 220 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: Final project/essay (4,000) | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Presentation: A 10-minute presentation | Week 7 | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Continuous Assessment: Learning journals and participation in class discussion | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
Participation: Group/class feedback in week 2 and written feedback individually to students in week 5 and 8/ Presentation related to final essay : Feedback individually to students, post-assessment on a plan prior to summative assessment Peer review activities: peer reviewing other students work against descriptive criteria on a rubric Final Essay:Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Name | Role |
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Dr Elizabeth Mullins | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |