Coursework, comprising an analysis of two of the five concepts, which will assess your understanding of the critical engagement with the concepts selected.

Recommended library books and journals

This module is taught through a spine of Lectures and bi-weekly seminars (18 class and 142 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/seminar programme will provide a general framework within which you will be expected to work in your independent learning time. You will also be expected to familiarise yourself with key texts that address the key concepts. You will also be encouraged to work in small groups to discuss these texts and your work in preparation for the seminars. There will also be small group tutorials with your seminar tutor.

A COURSEWORK -ESSAY length 2000 WORDS weighted at 50%.
A COURSEWORK - SECOND ESSAY length 2000 WORDS weighted at 50%.
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Academic General learning Outcomes:
(1) Greater awareness of the provisional nature of historical understanding.
(2) An ability to think conceptually
(3) An ability to engage with and critique theoretical texts

Module-Specific Learning Outcomes:
(1) Demonstrate an ability to define the five central concepts and to identify their importance for historical research.
(2) Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the place these concepts have in the development of
historical thought
(3) Demonstrate a familiarity with the work of historians who have helped shape their discipline
(4) Demonstrate an ability to critically understand the concepts in the assignment

Transferable Skills:
(1) Work in small groups and to provide a verbal report of the group's findings.
(2) Demonstrate your skills of oral and written communication
(3) Demonstrate the development of the necessary synthetic and analytical skills in the preparation of coursework.

This module is designed to introduce you to key concepts in historical thought and to provide a theoretical framework for the studies you are undertaking in specific option modules. The module examines five concepts - race, class, gender, nationalism and imperialism. Historians of all kinds utilise these concepts either more or less explicitly hence it is essential that you are familiar with them and their use and influence over historical research and interpretation.

Alun Munslow, Deconstructing History, London: Routledge, 2000
Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1870, Cambridge: CUP, 1990
R.S. Neale, Class in English History, 1680-1850, Oxford: Blackwell, 1978
Patrick Joyce, Class, Oxford: OUP, 1995
Joan Scott, Feminism and History, Oxford, OUP, 1996
V. Kiernan (ed.), Imperialism and its Contradictions, London: Routledge, 1995
Ronald Takaki, From Different Shores: Perspectives on race and Ethnicity in America, Oxford, OUP, 1994
E.C. Eze (ed.), Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.