Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse debates regarding what is history,
- analyse connections between historical memory and national identity
- analyse debates regarding historical memory, particularly how historical memory is forged, reworked and/or suppressed
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- set and monitor goals, reflecting on your own learning and learning from feedback
- communicate effectively and confidently both orally and in writing
- Produce academic writing to required conventions
- work with a range of sources, taking accurate notes and keeping records
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- processes of forging oppositional identities, consciousness and movements
- processes of creating national identities, myths and histories
- The suppression of historical memory.
- theoretical debates regarding what is history and the constitution of historical memories,
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 24 |
Independent Study | 126 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Lynn Abrams (2010). Oral History Theory. Routledge.
Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A Payne eds (2011). Accounting for Violence. Marketing memory in Latin America. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
Erik Ching (2016). Stories of Civil War in El Salvador : A battle over memory. Chapel Hill North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press.
Daniel James (2000). Dona Maria’s Story. Duke University Press.
Elizabeth Jelin (2003). State repression and the struggles for memory. LAB.
Beatriz Manz (2004). Paradise in Ashes A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror and Hope. Berkeley: University of California Press.
David Carey Jr (2017). Oral History in Latin America. Unlocking the spoken archive. New York: Routledge.
Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (2006). The Oral History Reader. Routledge.
Steve Stern (2006). Remembering Pinochet’s Chile. Duke University Press.
Priscilla Hayner (2002). Unspeakable Truths –Facing the challenge of truth commissions. Routledge.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Blog | 45% |
Individual Oral Presentation | 10% |
Essay | 45% |
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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Blog | 45% |
Individual Oral Presentation | 10% |
Analytical essay | 45% |
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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Blog | 45% |
Analytical essay | 45% |
Individual Oral Presentation | 10% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External