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.
- undertake research and develop your ideas on group identity and how this is constructed.
- 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.
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.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- utilise and develop your time-management skills.
- research historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written essays and reviews.
- 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.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 50 |
Seminar | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 50 |
Lecture | 12 |
Wider reading or practice | 26 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Journal Articles
(1998). AHR Forum: The Persistence of the Renaissance. The American Historical Review, 103, pp. 50-124.
(1974). The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe. The American Historical Review, 79, pp. 1063-1088.
(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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Written assignment | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External