Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 1 per week |
Lecture | 1 per week |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 1 X 4,000 WORD ESSAY | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | ESSAY TO BE RESUBMITTED IF FAILED | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
demonstrate a good, detailed knowledge of the key developments in European culture between 1898 and the present day;
demonstrate analytical skills as readers of key twentieth-century events in European culture;
demonstrate that they have mastered a thorough knowledge of different theoretical approaches to the study of culture
demonstrate that they can relate general theoretical issues to particular case studies in a critical fashion;
demonstrate that they can discuss and evaluate critically teh pros and cons of various approaches and frameworks used in cultural studies and to be able to articulate their own stance on these debates;
express themselves clearly, coherently and in a logical fashion, orally and in writing.
Brief description
Content/Cynnwys:
(1 lecture & 1 seminar each - 1 darlith & 1 semiar yr un)
1. What is cultural history? Theoretical perspectives
2. Spanish War of Independence (1808)
3. Disaster of 1898
4. The Spanish Civil War
5. Le Front populaire 1936
6. La Liberation 1944/45: 4th Republic
7. May 1968: 5th Republic
8. The Weimar republic
9. National Socialism
10. Division of Germany 1949
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | |
Communication | Participating in seminars and writing of essay will require student to express their ideas clearly, cogently and coherently. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Inedendent preperation for essays and seminars, independent research for essay and seminars |
Information Technology | Required to access bibliographical information and to submit word processed essays |
Personal Development and Career planning | Expected to show an ability to manage their own time effectively and to engage in independent lines of research in preparing their essays. |
Problem solving | Selection of reading material. answering questions posed by written assessment, seminar work. |
Research skills | Researching for essays and seminars |
Subject Specific Skills | Required to read material in German, French or Spanish in order to prepare for seminars and essays . |
Team work | In seminars |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7