HR200-5-SP-CO:
History Works: Beyond Your BA
2016/17
History
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
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Requisites for this module
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BA V100 History,
BA V101 History (Including Year Abroad),
BA V102 History (Including Foundation Year),
BA V103 History (Including Placement Year),
BA MV91 History and Criminology,
BA MV92 History and Criminology (Including Placement Year),
BA MV9C History and Criminology (Including Year Abroad),
BA QV21 History and Literature,
BA QV22 History and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA QV2C History and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA VQ12 History and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA LV31 History and Sociology,
BA LV32 History and Sociology (Including Placement Year),
BA LV3C History and Sociology (Including Year Abroad),
BA V1W6 History with Film Studies,
BA V1W7 History with Film Studies (Including Placement Year),
BA V1WP History with Film Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA V1L2 History with Human Rights,
BA V1LF History with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
BA V1LG History with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
BA V140 Modern History,
BA V144 Modern History (Including Foundation Year),
BA V148 Modern History (Including Placement Year),
BA V149 Modern History (Including Year Abroad),
BA VL12 Modern History and International Relations,
BA VL14 Modern History and International Relations (Including Placement Year),
BA VL1F Modern History and International Relations (Including Year Abroad),
BA LV21 Modern History and Politics,
BA LV22 Modern History and Politics (Including Placement Year),
BA LV2C Modern History and Politics (Including Year Abroad)
This module explores a number of key skills that students as historians are using in their courses and how this set of skills fits to a great range of other career choices. Divided into three parts, students will first find out how historians communicate their work to the public and what skills they use for doing so. In the second part, the module will focus on the current labour market and students will explore how their abilities can be presented as convincingly as possible and how these skills fit do different career options. After having established a set of key skills and practised the presentation of them, the third part of the module will focus on the different choices and career opportunities our former history students have made. In four panel discussions, former students and other experts will visit the History Department to talk about the professions they decided to go into with their history degrees. While some of these professions are closely linked to the subject of history, others are not at all.
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Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Report on a profession of interest |
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33% |
| Coursework |
Reflective statement including career plan and CV |
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33% |
| Coursework |
Blog post and comment |
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34% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Belinda Waterman, Student Administrator, Department of History; belinda@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Stefan Goebel
The University of Kent
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
Of 78 hours, 55 (70.5%) hours available to students:
2 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
21 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
History
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