HI998-30 Themes in Modern History

Department: History
Level: Taught Postgraduate Level
Module leader: Christoph Mick
Credit value: 30
Module duration: 10 weeks
Assessment: 100% coursework
Study location: University of Warwick main campus, Coventry

Introductory description

This module explores modernity - both as a historical period and an intellectual project. We explore a different aspect of modernity each week by reading one seminal historical or theoretical work, in dialogue with the broader historiographical debates to which it speaks. The module is relatively unusual in offering students the opportunity to engage in depth with a single text, in order to acquire a strong grasp of the intellectual interventions that have defined the modern period.

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Module aims

To gain an overview of themes and thinkers that have defined both the concept of modernity and the 'modern' period; to challenge students to engage with seminal works in their entirety; to gain the skills to locate individual intellectual interventions within wider historiographical debates.

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

Politics
States, Bureaucracies, and Time
Capitalism
Technology
Gender
Reading week
Race
Bodies
Post-colonialism
Urbanisation

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

Demonstrate a conceptual and practical understanding of the skills of an historian of the early modern era.
Demonstrate the ability to formulate and achieve a piece of critical and reflective historiographical writing.
Demonstrate the ability to undertake critical analysis.
Demonstrate the ability to formulate and test concepts and hypotheses.

Indicative reading list

http://readinglists.warwick.ac.uk/search.html?q=hi998

View reading list on Talis Aspire

Subject specific skills

See learning outcomes.

Transferable skills

See learning outcomes.

Study time

Type	Required
Seminars	9 sessions of 2 hours (6%)
Tutorials	2 sessions of 1 hour (1%)
Private study	280 hours (93%)
Total	300 hours

Private study description

PG taught History modules require students to undertake extensive independent research and reading to prepare for seminars and assessments. As a rough guide, students will be expected to read and prepare to comment on four substantial texts (articles or book chapters) for each seminar taking approximately 4 hours. Each assessment requires independent research, reading around 10-15 texts and writing and presenting the outcomes of this preparation in an essay, review, presentation or other related task.

Costs

No further costs have been identified for this module.

You do not need to pass all assessment components to pass the module.

Assessment group A3

	Weighting	Eligible for self-certification
Assessment component
1500 word essay or equivalent	30%	Yes (extension)
Reassessment component is the same
Assessment component
4500 word essay	70%	Yes (extension)
Reassessment component is the same

Feedback on assessment

Written comments via Tabula and face to face feedback

Courses

This module is Core for:

Year 1 of THIA-V140 Postgraduate Taught History (Modern)

This module is Core optional for:

Year 1 of THIA-V140 Postgraduate Taught History (Modern)