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 developed knowledge, structuring your ideas and research findings into well-ordered assignments.
- engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to the history of identity and rights and its relationship to historic and contemporary challenges.
- 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 primary sources relating to the history of identity and rights.
- a wide variety of secondary source material relating to the history of identity and rights, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
- the history of identity and rights, in particular historic and contemporary challenges posed to identities.
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.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 12 |
Seminar | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 50 |
Wider reading or practice | 26 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 50 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Andrew Clapham (2015). Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction. OUP.
Micheline Ishay (2004). The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. University of California Press.
Robert C. Allen (2013). Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. OUP.
Shoshana Zuboff (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future at the Frontier of Power. Profile Books.
Charlotte Lydia Riley (ed.) (2021). The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does It Matter?. Manchester UP.
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 | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
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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Essay | 60% |
Written assignment | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External