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Postgraduate Handbook 2007-2008 (archived)
Module HIST40630: Sixteenth-century politics, political culture, and religion II
Department: History
HIST40630: Sixteenth-century politics, political culture, and religion II
| Type | Level | Credits | Availability | Module Cap | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tied | 4 | 30 | Available in 2007/2008 | Durham |
Tied To
Pre-requisites
Corequisites
- None
Excluded Combinations
- None.
Aims
- The module aims to enable students to engage critically at a high level of sophistication with current methodoligical and historiographical debates, major concepts and interpretations on secondary literature and with a range of contemporary historical evidence relating to sixteenth-century British history in support of the intended learning outcomes of the MA in Modern History.
Content
- The nature of Tudor governance.
- Key aspects if Tudor political culture.
- Church-state relations and the impact of the Reformation on politics and society.
- The public sphere: political awareness, debate and action beyond the court.
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge
- By the end of the module the student will have gained a detailed knowledge of the nature of Tudor politics, political culture and religion; an understanding of relevant historiographical and methodological approaches and the capacity to evaluate critically both a wide range of contemporary primary sources and the secondary literature within these fields.
Subject-specific Skills
Key Skills
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- Appropriate specialised areas for focus are identified in discussion between the module leader and individual students in weekly tutorials. These areas are then explored through on-going, directed reading, directed and monitered by the module leader in weekly tutorials. Weekly tutorials also provide the framework within which each student plans, researches and writes, under the module leader's supervision, an extended essay, making use both of original sources and secondary literature
Teaching Methods and Learning Hours
| Activity | Number | Frequency | Duration | Total Hours | Attendance Monitored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tutorials | 9 | Weekly | 1 | 9 | |
| Preparation & Reading | 291 | ||||
| Total | 300 |
Summative Assessment
| Component | Component Weighting | Element | Length/Duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | 100% | Essay | 5000 word | 100% |
Formative Assessment
Module leader reads and comments on preliminary draft of student's 5000-word essay.
Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods
and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative
assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress
procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be
required to leave the University.