Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- write critically and coherently within a time constraint.
- manage your time effectively
- communicate through oral and written modes
- complete structured writing of assignments of different lengths
- evaluate published arguments relevant to a specific question
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate critical understanding of a complex period
- appreciate interrelationships of written and physical evidence
- discuss the implications of the information and insights that you have gained.
- show awareness of the principal artefacts, sites and other types of evidence relating to the period
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- debate key issues relating to the period of study.
- analyse diverse types of data
- evaluate the particular uses and problems of different sorts of evidence
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Follow-up work | 20 |
| Lecture | 20 |
| Seminar | 5 |
| Completion of assessment task | 40 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 15 |
| Wider reading or practice | 50 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Keynes, S., and Lapidge, M (1983). Alfred the Great. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
Reynolds, A (1999). Later Anglo-Saxon England. Stroud: Tempus.
Hooke, D (1998). The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England. London: Leicester University Press.
Hinton, D.A (2005). Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins: Possessions and People in Medieval Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fleming, R (2010). Britain after Rome. London: Penguin Books.
Crawford, S (2009). Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford/Westport CT: Greenwood World Publishing.
Hill, D (1981). An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell.
Webster, L (2012). Anglo-Saxon Art. London: British Museum Press.
Higham, N., and Ryan, M. J. (2013). The Anglo-Saxon World. London/New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richards, J (1991). Viking Age England. London: Batsford.
Lavelle, R (2010). Alfred’s Wars. Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
Hamerow, H. et al (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 50% |
| Source commentaries | 25% |
| Source commentaries | 25% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External