(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1. Demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of:
- recent historical scholarship in the student's chosen international history specialisms
- continuity and change in international politics (hbp #16)
- how decision makers have acted and thought in a range of circumstances, regimes and cultures (hbp #12.1 and 17)
- techniques for close work on sources, both primary and/or secondary (hbp #18).
Especially through the study of a primary source-based Special Subject and a Dissertation (see hbp #21) involving original research:
2. apply accurately standard techniques of historical analysis and enquiry
3. demonstrate their conceptual understanding through sustained argument
4. make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources
5. prove an ability to initiate, research and complete an extended historical project (hbp #21)
6. describe and comment on relevant aspects of recent scholarship
7. appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in history
8. conform to professional standards and norms of ethics, presentation and communication of information.
Competence Standards
1. Effectively communicate key facts, ideas, and arguments about the international history of the recent past (for example, from the later nineteenth century onwards) to diverse audiences.
2. Critically assess different approaches to the study of international history.
3. Critically interpret source material from a range of historical periods.
4. Construct arguments supported by historical evidence, considering diverse perspectives where appropriate.
5. Design and produce an independent research project in international history, with appropriate support where required.
6. Apply relevant digital tools, techniques and approaches to the study of history.
If the chosen pathway includes an industrial placement
7. Effectively demonstrate cultural and critical analysis, with appropriate support as required"
8. Demonstrate ability to direct, monitor and evaluate their work, by seeking/accepting feedback, within a workplace context, using appropriate support as necessary.
9. Demonstrate an awareness of own strengths and development needs and the need for ongoing learning and proactive continuing professional development.
If the chosen pathway includes an international placement -
10. Collaborate effectively with other people in a new environment and successfully completes a period of work or study in another country.
11. Demonstrate self-awareness relating to personal and academic/professional development through successfully completing a period of work or study in another country.
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1. Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment, such as independence of mind, initiative, group work, locating and handling information, analytical ability, problem-solving, oral and written communication, intellectual integrity, empathy (hbp #14)
2. Skills necessary for exercising of personal responsibility, including self-discipline and self-direction (hbp #14)
3. Decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations
4. Communication of information and ideas to a variety of audiences, eg through dissertation based on self-directed original research, class presentations, essays
5. Ability to act as an autonomous self-directed professional through experience of independent directed research.
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- dissertation
- oral assessment (or small written exercises)
- assessed essays
- examinations.
To demonstrate:
- Ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline
- Ability to produce work that draws on a wide variety of material
- Ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion
- Evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth original research within the discipline
- Work that is typically both evaluative and creative.
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