- Department: History
- Module co-ordinator: Dr. Tom Johnson
- Credit value: 10 credits
- Credit level: I
- Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
- See module specification for other years: 2022-23
Disciplines of History 2 is a required module for Single Subject History students in Year Two of the History programme. It exposes students to various sub-disciplinary modes of contemporary historical practice through a combination of foundational theoretical texts for the sub-disciplines in question, and historical texts that apply those sub-disciplinary approaches.
The specific mix of sub-disciplines will be at the discretion of individual staff members, who will choose at least one sub-discipline from each of the four ‘Bands’ (see the Teaching Programme for more information).
Exploring a minimum of four historical sub-disciplines will provide every student with a strong reflexive basis for making strategic disciplinary choices in their independent historical practice. The module will also help them further contextualise their practice within a wider field of historiographical engagement.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Summer Term 2021-22 |
The aims of this module are:
Students who complete this module successfully will:
Teaching Programme
The teaching programme will consist of four 2-hour seminar meetings, one weekly in weeks 1-4 of the summer term.
Seminar topics may include ONE of the following sub-disciplinary areas of history PER BAND, at the tutor’s discretion:
Seminar 1: Band A
Seminar 2: Band B
Seminar 3: Band C
Seminar 4: Band D
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework 1,000 word essay |
N/A | 100 |
None
Students will submit a 1,000-word essay of 1-2 module text/s (chosen in consultation with the seminar instructor) that focuses on core sub-disciplinary and theoretical problems of the relevant sub-discipline/s in week 5 for summative assessment. Students will be asked to situate the specific texts under analysis within a broader critical knowledge of the sub-discipline(s) to which they relate.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
---|---|---|
Essay/coursework 1,000 word essay |
N/A | 100 |
For the summative assessment task, students will receive their provisional mark and written feedback within 20 working days of the submission deadline. Their tutor will then be available during student hours for follow-up guidance if required. For more information, see the Statement on Assessment.
For term time reading, please refer to the module VLE site. Before the course starts, we encourage you to look at the following items of preliminary reading:
Zemon Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Kelley, Robin D.G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Sewell, Jr, William H. Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.