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Postgraduate Handbook 2007-2008 (archived)

Module HIST53930: Business and Labour History in the United States Since 1800, I

Department: History

HIST53930: Business and Labour History in the United States Since 1800, I

Type	Level	Credits	Availability	Module Cap	Location
Open	4	30	Available in 2007/2008		Durham

Pre-requisites

None

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

None.

Aims

Introduction to the advanced study of US business and labour history.

Content

The module will address selected aspects of U.S. business and labor history, reflecting current debate on the subject, and the particular interests of the student. Major topics which might be included are the historical development of entrepreneurial and managerial capitalist firms; the internal structures and operations of businesses; innovation; marketing; public relations and government-business relations; the development and particular nature of the American industrial 'working class'; the impact of immigration and internal migration on its composition and structure; the problems of building secure working-class institutions, and developing their political voice, in a liberal capitalist society. Because of the particular strengths of the University Library in primary sources, it is anticipated that students would concentrate on the period c. 1880-1920.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge

Subject-specific Skills

Key Skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Objectives are to be met through a programme of intensive directed reading, regular discussion of issues arising from the reading, and the production of an extensive piece of writing on an agreed subject.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total Hours
Tutorials	5	fortnightly	1.5	7.50
Other: Unscheduled meetings as requested by the student.	Variable	Variable	Variable	2.50
Preperation & Reading				290
Total				300

Summative Assessment

Component	Component Weighting	Element	Length/Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Essay	100%	Essay	5000 words	100%

Formative Assessment

Discussion of work in progress.

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.