Module manager: Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz
Email: N.K.Yavuz@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
HIST1055 Historiography and Historical Skills
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module equips students with the fundamental skills, techniques, and knowledge to be able to flourish as a student of history. Students will discover the range of ways that the past is examined, analysed, and presented. They will explore different approaches to researching the past as well as historical concepts, themes, and debates. Students will acquire the foundation for their historical studies while engaging with and reflecting on their own development in the practical skills necessary to study history.
This module aims to:
- equip students with the fundamental skills, concepts, practices, and intellectual framework to study history at undergraduate level.
- challenge and broaden student assumptions about how to do history.
- provide an inclusive and supportive induction and transition for new undergraduate students in the School of History.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Orientate themselves in topics that are new to them and locate their studies within broader historical contexts.
2. Recognise different interpretations of the past and appreciate the value and diversity of historical works.
3. Analyse different historical arguments and perspectives, using appropriate and relevant supporting evidence to form opinions, arguments and ideas.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Engage in good academic practice, including essential academic skills such as accurate referencing.
5. Write in a clear, concise, focused and structured manner that is supported by relevant evidence.
6. Reflect on achievements and recognise and express knowledge and understanding and how it relates to personal experience.
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 |
| Lecture | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Practical | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Seminar | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Independent online learning hours | 10 | ||
| Private study hours | 169.6 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20.4 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
You will submit a critical (annotated) bibliography related to the academic essay as a formative assignment, on which you will receive feedback from your seminar tutor. This will provide an opportunity to discuss the direction you are taking for your assessed academic essay in addition to guidance on referencing and presentation.
You will be participating in a variety of tasks in the module seminars where you apply what you have learnt. In addition to receiving feedback from your tutors, these tasks and activities will provide opportunities for you to self-identify feedback and address areas as you develop your skills. You will consolidate your work in this aspect of the module into a single reflective essay at the end of the module, in which you will be expected to also include a reflection on the feedback you received for your academic essay and how you will apply the feedback you received in future assignments in other modules. Therefore, feedback (written and oral) on summative work also has a key formative function.
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 | Academic Essay | 50 |
| Coursework | Reflective Essay | 50 |
| 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: 15/05/2025
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