HST31040 - Making History Public

20 credits (semester 2)

Module Leader: Dr Mirela Ivanova (2024-25)

Module Summary

This core module is designed to allow students the opportunity to produce a piece of public history. It will equip students with the skills required to effectively communicate their scholarly research to a non-academic audience, and develop transferable skills beyond the traditional academic skills of a History degree. Drawing on any aspect of their experience as History undergraduates, students will design and produce an accessible digital artefact presenting a topic or theme of their choosing. Students will be supported by workshops and seminars to identify suitable topics and develop communication and digital skills central to public history, and will also be encouraged to bring their extra-curricular skills and interests to this module. Anexhibition will showcase student work to the whole History community. In addition, students will submit an interpretative written exercise, situating and explaining the artefact they have created and analysing their experience over the course of the module.

Teaching and Assessment

Please see this page for further information about assessment.

Module Aims

This module aims to:

Develop students’ communication and digital skills central to public history
Provide students with the opportunity to engage creatively with a historical topic
Develop students’ ability to identify and reflect on the transferable skills they have gained during a History degree
Build community within the History Department by encouraging cross-cohort dialogue via the virtual showcase

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the unit, a candidate will be able to:

Effectively communicate complex historical information to a non-specialist audience
Draw on digital and other media as appropriate
Reflect on the opportunities and challenges associated with bringing history outside the academy
Identify and articulate the transferable skills they have developed during the module