BA History

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

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 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 interpreting complex, ambiguous, conflicting, and often incomplete materials and evidence.

Competence Standards
1. Effectively communicate key facts, ideas, and arguments about the past to diverse audiences.
2. Critically assess different approaches to the study of 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 historical research project with appropriate support where required.
6. Apply relevant digital tools, techniques, and approaches to the study of history.

Assessment

The School of History 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 typically include: a final year project (long essay, dissertation, or public history output), primary source analyses (‘gobbets’), literature reviews; presentations; essays; and online exams.

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