Research Proposal - 1,500 words [Learning Outcomes 1, 3 & 5]
Research Project - 4,500 words [Learning Outcomes 1-4]

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

This course examines the ways in which the use of propaganda has developed and used as an instrument of manipulation, specifically in the twentieth century. The emergence of `mass' educated society in Europe will be discussed, as will the communications revolution of the early C20. Problems of definition are considered in detail - as well as key historiographical debates surrounding the use of propaganda as an instrument of politics in the C20.

The module will follow a chronological approach - beginning with the use of propaganda by the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, the use of propaganda in connection with `Empire', the First World War, the emergence and use of documentary photography in America during the Great Depression as an instrument of propaganda to bring about social reform, World War Two and finally the ways in which it has been deployed by Governments and the media in the conflict, or `the Troubles', in Northern Ireland.

Weekly lectures will provide the core information and also the outlines of key Historians work, which you will follow up in fortnightly seminars.

You will have an opportunity to present your ideas, research and project to the class in an informal format in a positive, supportive environment. This will help formulate and direct your research and ideas - before moving on to produce the final Project.

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13% Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity
87% Guided Independent Study

Blackboard, DVD, Whiteboard.

Jackall R. (ed) [1995]: Propaganda. Macmillan
Mackenzie J. [1984]: Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion 1880-1960. MUP
Thomson O. [1999]: Easily Led. A History of Propaganda. Sutton
Welch D. [2000]: Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918. Athlone
Welch D. [1995]: The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda. Routledge