Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
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 assignments.
- 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.
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 effecting change through policy and advocacy and its relationship to the wider world.
- apply your developed knowledge, structuring your ideas and research findings into well-ordered assignments.
- undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- a wide variety of secondary source material relating to effecting change through policy and advocacy, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
- effecting change through policy and advocacy, in particular the ways in which history and the humanities can be leveraged to effect change.
- a wide variety of primary sources relating to effecting change through policy and advocacy.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Seminar | 24 |
Workshops | 24 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Wider reading or practice | 52 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Jonathan Schwabish (2021). Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks. Columbia UP.
Jill Abramson (2020). Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution. Bodley Head.
Alix Green (2016). History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government. Palgrave.
Catherine Smith (2018). Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy Making Process. OUP.
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 | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
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 | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External