HR211-5-FY-CO:
Making Histories: Concepts, Themes and Sources
2016/17
History
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
15
05 March 2010
Requisites for this module
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BA VV31 Art History and History,
BA VV3C Art History and History (Including Year Abroad),
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 LV11 History and Economics,
BA VL11 History and Economics (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),
BA VV15 Philosophy and History,
BA VV51 Philosophy and History (Including Foundation Year),
BA VV5C Philosophy and History (Including Year Abroad)
This is a compulsory module for all second-year students taking History degrees. Lectures and seminars are fortnightly throughout the year. BA Humanities students who have taken and passed HR100 or HR111 in their first year may also enrol on this module.
The purpose of this module is to encourage you to think about the many and diverse ways in which historians approach the writing of history. You may at first find the module unusual and challenging, but you will also find that it has knock-on effects. If you work at it seriously, it will illuminate everything you study in History.
Each lecture will be delivered by a different historian. It will introduce you either to an important historical concept that has shaped recent historical writing, such as 'microhistory', 'class', 'gender' and 'race', or to an important historical theme, such as 'consumption', 'literary history' and 'global history'. Each lecture will offer you readings and documents to reflect upon both in seminars and in the journal that you will be required to keep.
The introductory lecture surveys the 'History of history' and the problems of objectivity. The final lecture, 'Making your own history', will help you to relate what you have learned in this module to the choice and preparation of your Independent Research Project. One important aim of this module is to help you sharpen your methods and ideas for your Project.
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Compulsory for: All single and joint honours second-year History students.
Available to BA Humanties students who have passed HR100 or HR111 in their first year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Journal (1 entry) |
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10% |
| Coursework |
Journal (2nd entry) |
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15% |
| Coursework |
Journal (Final) |
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50% |
| Coursework |
IRP Proposal (1200 words) |
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25% |
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, belinda@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Mark Stephen Rowe Jenner
The University of York
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Of 112 hours, 108 (96.4%) hours available to students:
3 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
1 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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