This module is taught through a spine of Lectures (10 contact hours and 70 hours of independent learning). In the lectures members of the History team will demonstrate how historical concepts have been applied to their own areas of specialism. The lecture programme will provide a general framework within which you will be expected to work in your independent learning time. In the course of the module you will have the opportunity to locate examples to draw upon for your first examination question and develop case studies for your second. The final lecture will provide guidance on preparing for the seen examination. You will be required to register with a tutor and to have identified a topic for your case study by the end of Week 10.

Academic General learning Outcomes:
(1) Your understanding of the empirical and analytical nature of the discipline of history.
(2) An enhanced level of intellectual self-reflexivity.
(3) An ability to analyse the major concepts regularly employed by historians - race, class, gender, nationalism
and imperialism.
(4) Why and how historians can legitimately disagree in their interpretations.

Module-Specific Learning Outcomes:
(1) Fruitfully engage in independent study and research.
(2) Demonstrate the nature of conceptual activity: specifically how historians have applied those concepts to
particular regions, time periods, events and processes.
(3) Demonstrate the relationships between conceptual and empirical activity.
(4) Demonstrate how historians derive and use the five major concepts as mental representations of past reality.
(5) Understand the nature of historical research notably the connections between empirical activity, the historian
and objective historical explanation.

Transferable Skills:
(1) Connect the analytical to the empirical through the process of inference.
(2) Take increasing responsibility for organising your own learning.
(3) Deploy appropriate IT skills with increasing competence.
(4) Communicate more effectively in the written form.
(5) Acquire, manage and synthesise large amounts of source information.

This module is designed to extend your knowledge and understanding of the five concepts examined in the Semester 1 module, Concepts in History - race, class, gender, nationalism and imperialism. The programme will address Class and Gender in 18th Century, 19th Century Germany, 19th Century USA - Class, Race, Gender and Nationalism and the Frontier, the Habsburg Monarchy, 1815-1918, Class in 19th & Early 20th Century Britain, Race and Gender in Modern Germany, Imperialism & Nationalism in Nazi Foreign Policy, and Class, Gender and Nationalism in 20th Century Italy. Because there are no seminars, in your independent learning time you will be expected to research a case study of your own choosing under the guidance of an appropriate tutor and make contact with the Humanities and Social Sciences Tutor Librarian. Your choice of case study is not restricted to the countries and time periods covered in lectures, but you must find a tutor willing to supervise your choice. A list of history tutors, and the areas they cover, is given below. If you are unsure about the appropriate tutor for your chosen case study, please consult the module tutor.

Texts will vary according to the lecture case study selected. The following is an example of the texts required on a case study of the national question in Yugoslavia:

Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia, London: Cornell UP, 1984
Christopher Bennett, Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequence, London: Hurst, 1995
Leonard Cohen, Broken Bonds: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia, Boulder, Westview, 1993
Fred Singleton, A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples, Cambridge: CUP, 1985
Gale Strokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Cambridge: CUP, 1993

Recommended library books and journals

A EXAMINATION - SEEN EXAMINATION IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS - TOPICS PROVIDED length 2 HOUR(S) weighted at 100%.
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Which will assess your understanding of an engagement with historical and conceptual issues relevant to the module generally and to your case study.