(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
1. Initiate, research, and complete an extended historical project.
2. Analyse an appropriate and relevant body of primary sources to produce an original piece of historical research.
3. Critically evaluate primary sources related to a highly specialised area of history.
4. Accurately apply the professional standards and norms in ethics, presentation, and communication of information.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Effectively communicate information, arguments, and analysis in a range of formats.
2. Apply effective learning strategies that demonstrate intellectual integrity, maturity, and self-direction.
3. Conduct structured research enquiries that consist of setting tasks, and locating, synthesising and analysing evidence.
4. Work independently, while engaging positively with supervision and guidance.
5. Critically navigate the challenges faced in interpretating complex, ambiguous, conflicting, and often incomplete materials and evidence.
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.
The BA in International History and Politics uses a combination of different assessment methods to capture the range of ways that students learn on the programme. At Level 3 assessment types across our compulsory and optional modules include a final year project (long essay or dissertation), primary source analyses (‘gobbets’), literature reviews, presentations, essays, and online exams.
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