(Award available for year: Master of Arts)
1. Initiate, research, and complete an advanced level research project;
2. Analyse the development of social history and cultural history as related historical disciplines, across a broad chronological and thematic range;
3. Evaluate the methodologies of social and cultural history and utilise them to analyse primary sources;
4. Critically assess the main audiences for history outside of academia;
5. Apply public history techniques to the study of a chosen aspect of the past.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Conduct structured research enquiries that consist of setting tasks, and locating, synthesising and analysing evidence;
2. Work independently, while engaging positively with supervision and guidance;
3. Apply the technical skills to write and present a podcast;
4. Work collaboratively to produce a coherent presentation on a methodological aspect of public history.
Competence Standards
MA Social and Cultural History
1. Effectively communicate key ideas and arguments about social and cultural history to different audiences.
2. Critically assess different approaches to the study of social and cultural 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 social and cultural history, analysing primary sources, with appropriate support where required.
6. Apply relevant digital tools, techniques and approaches to the study of history
The School of History uses a combination of different assessment methods to capture the range of ways that students learn on the programme. In the MA Social and Cultural History assessment types across our compulsory and optional modules typically include: a dissertation, presentations, podcasts, and essays.
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