History

History at World's End

Module code: V1481
Level 5
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Workshop
Assessment modes: Coursework

Our world seems beset with the foreshadowing of its own end. We are faced with a range of crises, from the climate emergency, to concerns about the capacity of digital technologies to outgrow our control, through doubts about the capacity of our economic systems to deliver prosperity and security for all, to questions over the future of democracy. This module asks whether historical understanding can help us better diagnose these problems as part of the search for solutions. How did we get where we are? How were such crises experienced in the past? And can the past map possible scenarios for our collective future?

Module learning outcomes

• Use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis
• Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in writing
• To specialist and non-specialist audiences and deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively
• Undertake further training, develop existing skills and acquire new competences that will enable them to assume significant responsibility within organisations