Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse critically a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.
- engage with secondary literature on the nature of groups, and contribute to the debates relating to the historiography of them and their relationship to the wider world.
- undertake research and develop your ideas on group identity and how this is constructed.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- locate and use effective textual, visual and material culture sources in the library and on-line, synthesising this material in order to develop cogent arguments.
- research historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written essays and reviews.
- utilise and develop your time-management skills.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- key primary sources relating to the development of group identity
- key secondary source material relating to constructing group identity.
- the challenges associated with historical study , in particular the way in which popular historical narratives are constructed and how historians can approach these.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 50 |
Seminar | 12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 50 |
Wider reading or practice | 26 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Journal Articles
(1974). The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe. The American Historical Review, 79, pp. 1063-1088.
(1998). AHR Forum: The Persistence of the Renaissance. The American Historical Review, 103, pp. 50-124.
(2004). Should the Middle Ages Be Abolished?. Essays in Medieval Studies, 21, pp. 1–22.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 60% |
Written assignment | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External