Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 3 hours per week |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Course Work: 2 essays (2,500 words each, 40%). One source analysis assignment (1,500 words, 10%). | 50% |
Semester Exam | 3 Hours 3 HOUR, 3 QUESTION EXAMINATION | 50% |
Supplementary Exam | 3 Hours | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
The module is a Special Subject, the aim of which is to provide third-year students with an opportunity to study a particular period or problem in great depth, with reference to primary as well as secondary sources. On completion, students will:
a) be familiar with a body of historical knowledge in the relevant field of the special subject
b) be familiar with comparative perspectives in the relevant field of the special subject
c) be able to show an understanding of a range of approaches to the relevant study period
d) have further developed their ability to read, analyse and reflect critically on secondary and primary texts, including contemporary literary, philosophical, constitutional and religious writings
e) have further developed their ability to develop and sustain historical arguments, orally (not formally assessed) and in writing
f) have further developed their ability to gather and sift appropriate items of historical evidence
g) have further developed their ability to work both independently and collaboratively, and to participate in group discussions (not formally assessed)
Brief description
A range of special subjects will be available in each semester. Each new special subject course will be presented for approval separately, but will share the same module identifier. The module co-ordinator for Special Subjects will arrange for students' choice of special subject, in consultation with the degree scheme co-ordinator(s).
Content
Semester 1
Soldiers, Scholars and Sailors: Travel and Mobilityn in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
The Life & Times of Simon de Montfort
Gender in History: The Early Modern Experience
The Third Reich
Britain at War 1939-1945
Semester 2
Romantic Wales
British Society and the French Revolution 1789-1803
Stalin and Stalinism
Swinging 60's: Cultural Revolution in Britain
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6