The course is designed to help students acquire the skills to design and manage a research project in history, locate relevant primary and secondary sources, handle those sources and prepare a research proposal. Sessions will take the form of classes and workshops, and may take the form of visits to archives and museums in York. Sessions will be led by a variety of lecturers and outside speakers with relevant expertise.
The module introduces students to a wide range of resources, sources and approaches, but the content of the classes will be in part determined by your own interests. It will therefore be just as concerned with sharing experiences of research, as with handling information, your contribution to the classes is therefore vital to their success.
You choose whether to attend the medieval, early modern or modern pathways.
Occurrence | Teaching cycle |
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A | Autumn Term 2020-21 to Spring Term 2020-21 |
The module aims to:
After successfully completing this course students should:
Teaching Programme:
There will be five two-hour workshops in Weeks 1-5 of the Autumn Term. The Spring Term is for researching and writing a dissertation proposal.
The teaching programme will typically be as follows (variants may occur):
Autumn Term
Week 1: Introduction - 2 hour workshop for all history department MA students
Week 2: Library skills (for all history MA students)
Weeks 3 - 5: cohort pathways
Week 6: extra masterclasses
Week 9: Dissertation Inspiration workshop
Spring Term
Week 7: Dissertation session held for each MA cohort.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework 500 word dissertation proposal |
N/A | 100 |
Pass/fail & Non-compensatable
The module is assessed by means of a 500-word dissertation proposal on a non-compensatable pass/fail basis, to be researched and written in the spring term. It does not generate a mark, but a pass is a progression requirement. Candidates whose proposal fails will be given the opportunity to submit a revised version in the course of their programme.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework 500 word dissertation proposal |
N/A | 100 |
Students are informed of whether their dissertation proposal has received a pass or fail mark within 20 days of submission (students whose dissertation proposal is given a fail mark are given written feedback to assist with resubmission). Students meet with their dissertation supervisor at the beginning of the summer term to receive verbal feedback on their dissertation proposal. For more information, see the Statement of Assessment.
There are no key texts for this module.
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