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