Module manager: Dr Maroula Perisanidi
Email: M.Perisanidi@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module introduces you to key concepts and debates in social and cultural history. It explores these closely related historical disciplines by engaging with the key ideas and influential works that have shaped the field. We will consider how these approaches have developed, and how they engage with different types of primary sources.
This module aims to help you reach a critical understanding of the development of social history and cultural history as related historical disciplines, across a broad chronological and thematic range. Two-hour weekly seminars will encourage you to debate and interrogate key theorists, approaches, and schools of thought that have shaped the methodology and practice of social and cultural history, and to apply those approaches to primary sources.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Analyse the development of social history and cultural history as related historical disciplines, across a broad chronological and thematic range.
2. Evaluate the methodologies of social and cultural history and utilise them to analyse primary sources.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
3. Gather, analyse and interpret information from a range of sources.
4. Communicate information and ideas verbally and in writing.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Seminar | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Private study hours | 279.6 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20.4 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
You will deliver a 7-10 minute in-class presentation on a source of your choice in the relevant week. You will then receive peer-to-peer formative feedback from the other members of the class and written feedback from the tutor to help you develop your ideas ahead of the submission of the summative case study. You will receive training in the first seminar on how to give constructive feedback. You will also have the opportunity to meet with your tutor for one-to-one meetings to get feedback on your approach to each assignment prior to the deadlines.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Case study | 40 |
| Coursework | Essay | 60 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 28/04/2025
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