Module EDUS1601: HUMANITIES 1

Department: Education [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

EDUS1601: HUMANITIES 1

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To enhance the subject knowledge and understanding of intending Key Stage 1 and 2 teachers in the Humanities with particular reference to geography, history and religious studies, to enable students to make informed judgements about the key ideas and concepts which constitute these subjects and the ways of thinking which have led to the development of these ideas and concepts.

Content

• Key ideas and concepts underpinning the National Curriculum subjects of geography, history and religious studies are introduced and developed in the following contexts.
• GEOGRAPHY: the process of enquiry, contrasting localities: the interpretation of places using a range of evidence and skills.
• Settlements: form function and fabric.
• Exploring environmental issues.
• Water on the land.
• HISTORY: Ancient Britain: the Celts and the Romans.
• The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain, Renaissance and Reformation, the Tudors and the cult of personality, the Victorian Age.
• RELIGIOUS STUDIES: one God many deities, Karma and rebirth, to live is to suffer , living by the Noble Eightold Path, scripture: the living Guru, Basakhi day 1699.

Learning Outcomes

• Key ideas underpinning a foundation subject (either arts, humanities or ICT);
• Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the following key ideas underpinning the National Curriculum foundation subjects of geography, history and religious studies: places, patterns and processes which shape physical and human features in the environment, environmental change and sustainable development, cause and consequence, continuity and change, time and chronology, and that the past can be interpreted in different ways, the nature of belief, deity, worship, authority and commitment.

• think critically and independently;
• analyse, synthesise and evaluate primary and/or secondary data;
• critically analyse literature on a variety of contemporary education issues;
• construct and sustain a reasoned argument.

• communicate ideas, principles and theories effectively in a variety of ways;
• work effectively on given tasks and activities;
• use Information and Communications Technology in a variety of ways;
• manage time and work to deadlines.

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

• The module will be delivered through a lecture programme, seminars and fieldwork visits in the locality (not 'fieldwork' in schools).
• The lectures will examine the key ideas and concepts and the seminars and fieldwork will facilitate student participation in the critical discussion of these ideas and concepts and the critical reflection of key readings and appropriate research.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Formative assignment: written assignment with presentation (1000 words).

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University