Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- 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.
- engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to public history.
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.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.
- research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in a range of media.
- utilise and develop your time-management skills.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 64 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Seminar | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Workshops | 24 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
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.
Wiśniewska, Dorota, And Joanna Wojdon (eds.) (2022). Public in Public History. Abingdon: Routledge.
Gardner, James B., And Paula Hamilton (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Public History. Oxford: OUP.
Fowler, Corinne (2020). Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press.
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