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Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written assignments.
• utilise and develop your time-management skills.
• use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• a wide variety of secondary source material relating to American history, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
• the history of America, in particular the different approaches taken by historians to American history.
• a wide variety of primary sources relating to American history.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply your developed knowledge of American history, structuring your ideas and research findings into well-ordered written assignments.
• engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to American history and its relationship to the wider world.
• undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.