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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Introductory
Former School/College
Unit aim
Introduces students to research methods and styles of history-making. Debates within, and challenges to the discipline will be explored. A teacher/student interaction strategy will be employed which intends that students acquire the concepts of the discipline and have the opportunity to make history for themselves. Access to a computer and network will be essential for external students to meet the requirements of the unit.
Unit content
- What is history?
- Sources and subjects of history-making
- Reading/writing history: Interpreting secondary sources
- Listening to history: Oral sources
- Visiting history: Archives and museums
- Place and time: Temporal and spatial coordinates
- Historians as history-makers
- History-making making history: Who owns history?
- Popular history making
- Why history? Rethinking the past in a changing world
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | identify issues and raise questions for historical study | |||||||
| 2 | describe some of the major theories of historical enquiry | |||||||
| 3 | employ historical methodologies | |||||||
| 4 | use different source materials both critically and empathetically | |||||||
| 5 | evaluate different historical interpretations and representations of the past | |||||||
| 6 | demonstrate commitment to the professional, legal and ethical responsibilities of historical practice | |||||||
| 7 | construct an argument | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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identify issues and raise questions for historical study
- GA1:
- GA4:
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describe some of the major theories of historical enquiry
- GA4:
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employ historical methodologies
- GA4:
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use different source materials both critically and empathetically
- GA1:
- GA5:
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evaluate different historical interpretations and representations of the past
- GA4:
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demonstrate commitment to the professional, legal and ethical responsibilities of historical practice
- GA3:
- GA4:
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construct an argument
- GA1:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.