Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hour seminars |
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 1 SEMINAR PRESENTATION AND GENERAL SEMINAR CONTRIBUTIONS | 20% |
Semester Assessment | 1 ESSAY (1,500 WORDS) | 20% |
Semester Assessment | 1 PROJECT (5,000 WORDS) | 60% |
Supplementary Assessment | NO RESIT PERMITTED IF ALL WORK IS NOT SUBMITTED |
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
demonstrate familiarity with different ways in which history has been portrayed on television;
demonstrate an awareness of how the makers of TV history programmes attempt to engage with their audience, and the kinds of issues that determine the content and style of programming
analyze and reflect critically on the relationship between history on television as `popular history' and tensions between history on TV and history as an academic discipline
construct and sustain arguments orally and in writing;
work both independently and collaboratively, and to participate in group discussion.
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | Students will not utilize statistical sources in this module. |
Communication | Oral and written communication skills will be developed through seminars and feedback on written work. These skills will be assessed. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Written work will be returned in tutorials where advice will be given on improving students' research techniques and essay writing skills. There will be no formal assessment of this skill. |
Information Technology | Students will be required to locate source materials through library catalogues and on-line sources. Students will also be encouraged to word-process their assessed work. These skills will not be formally assessed. |
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. |
Problem solving | Students will be expected to locate and assess primary source materials. This skill will be assessed through the three pieces of work. |
Research skills | Students will be required to carry out research for seminars and for the required pieces of work. Such research will be assessed in each of the three elements of assessment. |
Team work | Students will work together in seminar preparation and will lead the seminars. There will be no formal assessment of this skill. |
This module is at CQFW Level 6