Module Descriptors
MODERN HISTORY DISSERTATION
HIPO60240
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
30 credits
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Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 12
Independent Study Hours: 288
Total Learning Hours: 300
Assessment
  • DISSERTATION weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Dissertation (10,000 words) [100%] [Learning outcomes 1-8]

Module Texts
Berry, Ralph The Research Project: How to Write It Routledge, London, 4th Edn. 2000

Black, Jeremy & MacRaild, Donald Studying History Palgrave, Basingstoke, 3rd Edn. 2007

McDowell, W.H. Historical Research: A Guide Longman, London, 2002

O'Leary, Zina The Essential Guide to Doing Research Sage, London, 2004
Module Resources
Recommended Library Books and Journals and Online Resources
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available(where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Module Learning Strategies
12 hours of supervision which provides the basis for 288 hours devoted to independent study.
Module Indicative Content
With a focus within modern history the Dissertation necessarily incorporates each stage of historical research - conceptualising the problem in the context of current knowledge and historiography, identifying and locating appropriate sources, reading them with the technical competence, critical understanding and insight necessary to establish what can be learned from them, and presenting the results in a clear, coherent, cogent and attractive form. It therefore not only has scholarly value in its own right, but also provides a comprehensive test and display of the skills, strengths and limitations of its author.