(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 historical specialisms;
- chronological continuity and change (hbp #16);
- how people have existed, acted and thought in a range of societies 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.
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, e.g. 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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