Module Code - Title:
HI4267
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ADVANCED HISTORY SPECIALISM
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Scholars in the Department of History bring their personal research into the classroom in the fourth-year of the Undergraduate History curriculum, by offering specialist elective modules. This module is designed to be broad enough to allow visiting scholars, including adjunct professors, and others to deliver a module in their specialist area.
Syllabus:
This module will function as a critical and deep analysis of a theme, area, or period in of the past. In doing so students will study the main components of the theme, area or period, and will consider how individuals, groups and ideas impacted on people and society. Students will consider the impact of individual and group actions, as well as the process of historical change and continuity. Different theoretical and methodological frameworks will de deployed to examine the theme, area or period. Students will have the opportunity to assess and interpret a wide range of primary source material, deriving directly from original research.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- gain an understanding of the principle primary sources available for the topic
- critically evaluate the key primary and secondary sources in the research area
- consider the impact, intended and unintended, of historical change and continuity.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- display an appreciation of the importance of social, cultural and/or political change.
- appreciate the complexity of the past.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Not applicable
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Like all other fourth-year history specialist modules, this module will be delivered in the form of a weekly three-hour seminar, where students will be active participants in their learning, considering primary and secondary literature, as well as being introduced to the key concepts, methods and approaches to the research topic.
These modules are particularly designed to bring the historian's personal expertise and scholarship into the classroom. By engaging with the materials, content, assessment and ideas provided in the module, students become articulate, knowledgeable and collaborative.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Ralph Cohen and Michael S. Roth (eds.) (1995)
History and ... Histories within the Human Sciences
, Charlottesville and London, University Press of Virginia
W.H. McDowell (2002)
Historical Research: a Guide
, Longman
Other Relevant Texts:
Ludmilla Jordanova (2006)
The Practice of History
, London, Hodder Arnold
David Cannadine (2002)
What is history now
, London, New York: Palgrave
J. Laurence Hare, Jack Wells, Bruce E. Baker (eds.) (2019)
Essential Skills for Historians A Practical Guide to Researching the Past
, Bloomsbury
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BAULARUFA - ARTS
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Spring
Module Leader:
helen.parr@ul.ie