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Postgraduate Handbook 2007-2008 (archived)

Module HIST55730: The Social and Labour History of North East England since 1870, I

Department: History

HIST55730: The Social and Labour History of North East England since 1870, 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 modern social and labour history in a regional context.

Content

The module will address selected aspects of modern social and labour history, reflecting current debate on the subject, and the particular interests of the student. For most of the period the regional economy was based on coal, and the module will explore industrial relations in the mining industry, the sociology of coal communities and coal's decline. Coal was critical in both world wars and their impact on the region will be a prominent theme in the module. Other topics covered will include the response to mass unemployment between the wars, measures to deal with the region's apalling housing problems, attempts to regenerate the region through industrial diversification and schemes of training and migration, and an investigation of the cultural life of the region concentrating on projects to define 'the north'.

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
Preparation & 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.