Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description This module will provide students with a chance to work closely with primary and secondary sources to investigate an aspect of the culture and society in modern Ireland. The students will, with the guidance of the module co-ordinator, identify and define a viable research project – one characterized by a valid research question and a set of relevant primary sources. They will enhance their critical skills by identifying relevant historiography, pursuing and interrogating work which both addresses their chosen theme and contextualizes their primary sources. Through the researching and writing of a dissertation, they will develop close reading, analytical and writing skills as well as improving their capacity to synthesize. Further, they will acquire enhanced knowledge of a particular aspect of the culture or society of modern Ireland, placing that subject in context through comparison across time and/or space. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Identify a valid research question and a set of primary sources that will facilitate the exploration of that question. 2. Collect and prioritize a body of secondary sources that will facilitate the defining and contextualizing of the research question. 3. Apply analytical skills required to assess primary source material critically. 4. Interrogate the work of historians with a critical understanding of the specific chronological, political, intellectual and social context in which they produced that work. 5. Enhance their knowledge of an aspect of culture and society in modern Ireland. 6. Demonstrate communication skills through the organization and writing of a dissertation. 7. Develop historical consciousness and understanding of the nature of historical change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
ThemesLectures and seminars will cover themes such historical skills and the analysis of primary sources; the historiography of modern Ireland and the influence of political, intellectual and social developments on the writing of history; archives and accessing sources. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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