Module manager: Dr Simon Quinn
Email: S.Quinn@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as an Elective
What has it meant historically to be a migrant, or a refugee, exile, or nomad? What has been the nature of forced and voluntary migrations in different historical contexts? What is the relationship between histories of migration and histories of race, conflict, state formation, empire, class, identity, and internationalism? This team-taught module explores diverse histories of migration and offers historical perspectives on contemporary debates.
This module will introduce you to a diverse and global set of migration histories through seminars based in the specific research areas of members of the School of History. You will learn to work critically with primary sources relating to historical migrations. They will engage with ongoing historiographical debates around migration, exile, refuge, slavery, and transnationality, as well as with interdisciplinary approaches to migration and its histories.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Critically analyse migration histories in different historical periods
2. Evaluate coherently complex and interdisciplinary debates around migration and mobility in history
3. Engage with libraries, archives, and online repositories to study migration histories
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Assess primary sources for the history of migration and to place them in context
5. Engage critically with historiographical debates and approaches to migration histories
6. Communicate coherently on migration histories
This module will explore histories of migration in Europe in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. As this is a team-taught module, seminar topics will vary year-to-year and will usually be linked to specific regional and temporal contexts, but themes may include- early modern exile & refuge - imperial migrations- migration & decolonisation- migration & labour- forced migration & slavery- wartime migrations- migration & disease- language & migration- migration histories in contemporary perspective
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fieldwork | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Seminar | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Private study hours | 278 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
Students will submit a written response to the module field trip element which will receive comments from the tutor – this represents an opportunity for the module tutor to read and provide written comments on students’ writing and engagement with the themes of the module prior to the two summative assessments.
Student progress will be monitored in-class, with module tutors monitoring attendance and performance in seminars.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay | 4,000-word essay usually based on one week of the module, title to be agreed with that week’s tutor | 60 |
| Oral Presentation | Recorded oral presentation of 20 minutes, with a 1,000-word report | 40 |
| 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: 18/10/2024
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