HST120 History Workshop (core for all dual and single honours History students)

20 credits (Semester 1)

Module Leader: Andy Lee (2023-24)

Module summary

In the History Workshop you will learn the craft of the historian by working closely with one of our academics on a particular area of their research while simultaneously developing the skills you’ll need to make the step up to university-level historical study.

How do professional historians go about their work? What skills do they need? And, how do they develop them? In this module, you’ll consider these questions by engaging with real historical questions.

Tutors will base their seminars on their own specific research interests, making this module a great way of integrating you into the research culture of the department and giving you real insight into what our historians actually do. Each tutor will then use this area of research as a means of exploring how historians identify and analyse relevant primary sources and navigate historiographical debates, while teaching a range of skills such as critical reading, bibliographic techniques and effective written and oral communication.

You will also develop skills at working both independently and as part of a wider team. The History Workshop has its own on-line learning environment, which enables you to work at your own pace on a series of research exercises. One of the main assessments for this module is a group presentation where you’ll work with other students to research a particular topic and present your findings to the rest of the group.

Assessment information:

1. Online exercises (formative - no mark attached)

2. Annotated bibliography (30%)

3. Learning Journal: minimum of six entries, one must be a reflection on the MySkills Audit (30%)

4. Book review (40%)

For more information about assessment, please see this document, as well as the Blackboard page.