Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- utilise and develop your time-management skills.
- research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written essays.
- use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.
- engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to Jewish life and antisemitism and its relationship to the wider world.
- apply your developed knowledge of Jewish life, structuring your ideas and research findings into well-ordered essays.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the history of Jewish life, in particular the development of Jewish experience.
- a wide variety of primary sources relating to Jewish life and antisemitism.
- a wide variety of secondary source material relating to Jewish life and antisemitism, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 52 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Seminar | 48 |
Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Ezra Mendelsohn (1983). The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars. Indiana.
Jeffrey Veidlinger (2021). In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust. New York: Metropolitan Books.
Michael Stanislawski (1983). Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assessment | 30% |
Essay | 70% |
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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Essay | 70% |
Written assessment | 30% |
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 | 70% |
Written assessment | 30% |