A PROJECT PROPOSAL length 200 weighted at 15%.
A PROJECT- INDIVIDUAL length 1800 WORDS weighted at 85%.
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University computers with NT for access to Lotus Learning Space.
Bookable (by tutor) computer labs with access to LLS provision or equivalent.
Recommended library books and journals and videos.
Individual visits to local museums, libraries and archives for project work.

The module will comprise 80 hours total learning time, of which 12 will be class contact hours - six one hour lectures and six one hour seminars - with 68 hours independent learning supported by material and tutor and student discussion on Lotus Learning Space (LLS). The lecture will introduce the main themes and arguments of the module content. The seminars will provide for discussion of the themes from the lectures. Some seminars may be held in computer labs for group work using LLS. The purpose of the LLS component of the module is to support the resource-based learning required for the Project. It includes the Project brief, lecture follow ups, text and multi-media material on the local area, bibliographic indications with www-links, and advice on research techniques and presentation. The LLS 'Courseroom' and 'Profiles' enable students to communicate with the tutor and other students about issues concerning their research, and to engage in related discussions. The tutor can use LLS to provide formative assessment and feedback as students report on their project proposals, project development and project local/global links. The independent study should also be used for additional bibliographic searches with support available from Humanities tutor librarians, visits to local museums and libraries, planning and writing of the assignment project.

Set Text:
Jordanova, Ludmilla: History in Practice, Arnold, London, 2000

Bell, Judith - Doing Your Research Project, OUP, Milton Keynes, 1993, 2nd edition
Bird, Jon et al (ed) - Mapping the Futures: local cultures, global changes, Routledge, London, 1993
Drake, Michael & Finnegan, Ruth - Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians: A Handbook, CUP,
Cambridge, 1994
Edensor, Tim (ed) - Reclaiming Stoke-on-Trent: Leisure, Space and Identity in the Potteries, Staffs. Univ Press, Stoke,
2000
Edwards, Mervyn - Potters in Pits, Churnet Valley, Leek, 1998
Fairbairn, Gavin & Winch, Christopher - Reading, Writing and Reasoning: A Guide for Students, OUP, Buckinham, 2nd edition, 1996
Johnson, Ray - The Potteries at War, Video, Staffordshire Film Archive, 1999
Jones, Anne - The National Garden Festival Stoke '86: The Official Souvenir Publication, Garden Festival Publications, 1986
Marshall, Lorraine & Rowland, Frances - A Guide to Learning Independently, OUP, Buckingham, 3rd ed, 1998
Phillips, A.D.M. (ed) - The Potteries: Continuity and Change in a Staffordshire Conurbation, Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1993
Sarsby, Jacqueline - Missuses and Mouldrunners: An oral history of women pottery-workers at work and at home, OUP, Oxford, 1988
Walsh, Kevin - The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-modern World, Routledge, London, 1992
West Mercia Worker's Education Association - Zindagi! The story of some Asian women's lives in Stoke on Trent, West Mercia Worker's Education Association, [ring-bound pamphlet in Thompson Library], not dated.
Whipp, Richard - Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry, Routledge, London, 1990

Relevant Level 1 History general learning outcomes you should be able to demonstrate:
'The importance of basing knowledge and argument on evidence (including secondary and primary evidence)' - in this module the project will enable you to reflect on the nature of the evidence collected for the project and its evaluation.
'The importance of relating judgments to contemporary assumptions' - in this module an understanding of how contemporary practices such as the 'heritage industry' have affected the re-presentation of history and the implicit judgments made on what to highlight from the past.

Specific learning outcomes from engagement with the module content you should be able to demonstrate:
Acquisition of skills in the handling and interpretation of documentary evidence and in the evaluation of historical argument.
Greater awareness and appreciation of different perspectives on history and who 'makes history', such as personal family-tree history, local and community history, 'fan' histories on web-sites, professional academic history, heritage and commerce-based history.
Ability to apply some of the skills and approaches introduced in the module for the Project in order to compare and contrast aspects of 'local' history with wider 'global' trends such as industrialisation, leisure and the 'heritage' industry, impace of the internet on local/global indentities.

This core module introduces students to the discipline of history, gives an opportunity to explore the local context around them, to link the local context to wider 'global' themes and an introduction to the use and interpretation of different kinds of evidence. The module will consider themes such as 'The local and the global, the personal and the professional'; Wedgwood and early industrialisation; The social history of leisure: Stoke City and Port Vale FCs & Alton Towers; Industrialisation, Work and Health (Coal, Steel, Pottery); The Heritage Debate and the Re-presentation of History; Knowledge and Power: A history of the global internet; The future for History. The lectures will include the selection, research methods and presentation required for the project.

Project Development (200 words): 15%
The main criterion for assessment of the Project Development statement is evidence of the selection of a Project with scope for investigation and that links to the local/global and personal/professional framework introduced in the module.

Project (1800 words): 85%
The main criterion for assessment of the project is the ability to investigate an aspect of 'local' history, to make links with wider trends, and to make connections with the issues about evidence and the re-presentation of the past raised in the module.