History

History Special Dissertation End of Empire

Module code: V1353D
Level 6
30 credits in autumn & spring teaching
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Dissertation

You address a historical problem in depth, setting your own research project and its questions.

You will:

• resolve those questions with a module involving the design of a research outline
• carry out your own research based on primary historical sources.
• develop the skills necessary to write an extended piece of written work based on this (usually archival) research.

Module learning outcomes

• Define a research question and agenda.
• Undertake archive or text based research.
• Construct complex written arguments of greater length than hitherto on the basis of historical research using primary sources.