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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

Unit aim

Undertaking a piece of original research on local or community history, students will gain a greater understanding of the professional historical experience. The research is closely supervised and is expected to result in both a piece of public scholarship and an account of the historiographical issues raised during its completion.

Unit content

  • Community and Local History
  • Managing research projects
  • Methods and sources
  • Public scholarship

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:
1 locate and critically evaluate a range of relevant sources
2 undertake a major research project in community history using historical research skills and methods
3 apply oral and written skills in communicating research findings.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. locate and critically evaluate a range of relevant sources
  2. undertake a major research project in community history using historical research skills and methods
  3. apply oral and written skills in communicating research findings.

Prescribed texts

  • Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.