Aims and Objectives

• To develop study, writing and communication skills.
• To develop a critical understanding how social movements come into being and the relationship between ideas, social action, and changing attitudes to gender.
• To develop an awareness of methodological questions about the relationship between intellectual, social, oral and cultural history.
• To develop the ability to employ a broad range of primary and secondary historical sources alongside theories of identity, subjectivity and political agency.

Assessment

• Final Year Advanced Option 2 (Assessed)

  • Oral participation/engagement (10%) The marking criteria for how seminar participation/engagement is assessed in the student handbook.
  • 1500 word essay (10%) [See here for some tips on what is expected for this module; see also general history department guidelines]
  • 3000 word source based essay or equivalent (40%) [See here for some Tips on what is expected for this module]. For an example of a first class source based essay see here.
  • 3000 word essay (40%) [See here for some tips on what is expected for this module; see also general history department guidelines]
  See here for more information about marking criteria, including that for oral assessment https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/undergraduate/teaching/assessment/markingscales Please see Tabula and the department Assessment pages for more information about deadlines https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/undergraduate/teaching/assessment/deadlines

Sample Essay Questions

• Please see seminar Qs. All can be used as essay titles. If you want to make up your own essay title you must run it by me first.