Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
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Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 2,000 word analytical diary 2,000 word analytical diary. A record of the work during the work placement and a critical reflection on work-related skills employed during the placement. A record of the work during the work placement and a critical reflection on work-related skills employed during the placement. | 30% |
Semester Assessment | Oral Assessment: Short presentation | 10% |
Semester Assessment | 4,000 word essay 4,000 word essay based on a specific question relevant to the area of work during the work placement. Essay based on a specific question relevant to the area of work during the work placement. | 60% |
Supplementary Assessment | 4,000 word essay Essay based on a specific question relevant to the area of work during the work placement. | 60% |
Supplementary Assessment | Oral Assessment: short presentation | 10% |
Supplementary Assessment | 2,000 word analytical diary A record of the work during the work placement and a critical reflection on work-related skills employed during the placement. | 30% |
Learning Outcomes
Describe and analyse the approach to the conservation and presentation of historical material in the institution where they work during the module.
Discuss and analyse the academic debates surrounding concepts of public history and the representation of the past.
Link various practical experiences with key themes in the use of historical sources in the field relevant to the placement.
Discuss and outline how the period of work experience has enhanced various transferable skills, both oral and written.
Brief description
Students will take part in institutions? activities in preserving, recording, cataloguing and presenting history to the public, on aspects of the past related to their period or theme of study. Projects particularly suitable for M level students are being identified in the relevant institutions. Students will work under the guidance of professionals in the fields of curatorship, archive management, public history and marketing.
Aims
The module will give students the opportunity to undertake a work placement at a leading historical institution, on projects broadly relating to their theme of Masters study. Students will gain an insight into how organisations conserve, catalogue and display historical material, and engage with the public. Students will gain an understanding of the operation and policies of institutions dedicated to the protection and promotion of the material and written past, and a range of issues and debates around `public history? and the ways in which the past is interpreted for public consumption. The module will also enrich the student'r experience of other modules by bringing them into close contact with primary sources and with professionals dedicated to their preservation and interpretation. The module is explicitly designed to promote the development of work-related skills.
Content
Students will then undertake a period of work placement at an institution, totaling 80-100 hours, during which they will compile an analytical diary, which will enable them to reflect critically on work-related skills employed during the placement. There may be some variation in the timing of the work placement during the academic year, depending on the arrangements for each institution. Some time will also inevitably elapse at the start of the semester to allow students to be matched up to appropriate projects in the co-operating institutions.
Following this, students will prepare an essay based on a specific question related to the area of work undertaken during the placement. This will be supported with tutorials, to help define the topic and to check progress.
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | Through understanding of statistical and other numerical data as it relates to the topics under review |
Communication | Through seminar discussion and diary / essay writing. Latter only is formally assessed. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | By reflection on skills employed during the work placement. |
Information Technology | Through data retrieval exercises for research and cataloguing purposes and word-processing for essay writing purposes. |
Personal Development and Career planning | Through furthering understanding of the opportunities offered in careers relating to public history. |
Problem solving | By understanding how public historians employ a variety of different methodological approaches towards conserving, recording and presenting historical material. |
Research skills | By gaining an insight into how historical sources are used by various people and organisations, and by learning how to identify and utilise appropriate sources in the field of public history and utilising that material in their work. |
Subject Specific Skills | By enhancing understanding of how relevant primary sources are produced, catalogued and preserved. |
Team work | Through working with public history professionals in the institution where they undertake their placement |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7