Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to public history.
- apply your practical skills, structuring your ideas and research findings into a well-ordered portfolio.
- undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in a range of media.
- use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.
- 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:
- Public history, in particular the way in which historians communicate history to the public through various approaches.
- a wide variety of secondary source material relating to public history, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
- a wide variety of primary sources relating to public history.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Seminar | 12 |
Wider reading or practice | 64 |
Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Workshops | 24 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Wiśniewska, Dorota, And Joanna Wojdon (eds.) (2022). Public in Public History. Abingdon: Routledge.
Fowler, Corinne (2020). Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press.
Woods, Hannah Rose (2022). Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain. London: Penguin.
Dean, David (Ed.) (2018). A Companion to Public History. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Gardner, James B., And Paula Hamilton (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Public History. Oxford: OUP.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
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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Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External