Module Identifier | HY36730 | |||||||||||||||||
Module Title | POVERTY, DISEASE AND REFORM IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN | |||||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | |||||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Owen G Roberts | |||||||||||||||||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | |||||||||||||||||
Next year offered | N/A | |||||||||||||||||
Next semester offered | N/A | |||||||||||||||||
Mutually Exclusive | HA36730 | |||||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 18 x 50 minute lectures | ||||||||||||||||
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 50 minute seminars | |||||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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Seminars:
1. Britain in the 1830s: political ideas and social realities
2. The New Poor Law and its consequences
3. The reform of working conditions
4. Cholera, fever and infant mortality
5. Edwin Chadwick and state intervention in public health
6. Health - the catalyst of urban reform?
7. Recreation, and civilising the urban streets
8. Dealing with the Victorian slum
9. Mortality decline in the last quarter of the 19th century - the great debate
10. Concluding issues.
Individual tutorials
2 tutorials of 15 minutes, primarily for giving feedback on written work.
Problem solving | Students will be expected to identify and respond to historical problems and carry out appropriate research before the seminars and before writing essays. This will be assessed as part of the coursework assessment and examination. | ||
Research skills | These skills will be developed through the research students are expected to carry out before the seminars and for the essays. This will be assessed as part of the coursework assessment and examination. | ||
Communication | This skill will be developed through the two essays and oral discussions. Students will also be expected to give seminar presentations during the term. Written communication will be assessed as part of the coursework assessment and examination. Oral presentations are not formally assessed but feedback is given to students. | ||
Improving own Learning and Performance | Essays will be returned in essay tutorials where advice will be given on improving students¿ research techniques and essay writing skills | ||
Team work | Students will work together in seminar preparation and discussion | ||
Information Technology | Students will be encouraged to locate suitable material through verious electronic sources and apply it appropriately to their own work. Students will also be encouraged to word-process their work. | ||
Application of Number | Students will need to understand and apply some statistics on subjects such as mortality, which will be presented in the lectures and seminars. | ||
Personal Development and Career planning | This module will help develop written and oral skills. Other activities, including research, assessment of information and writing in a critical and clear manner, will further develop useful skills of analysis and presentation. | ||
Subject Specific Skills | The module will further develop students¿ ability to gather historical evidence from a range of sources, and incorporate it into coherent arguments within a conceptual and theoretical framework. |
This module is at CQFW Level 6