Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description In this module students are equipped with the skills and techniques necessary to carry out local history research as, in completing this module, students produce a piece of original research on a topic in local history. Students learn how to: approach such a project; identify, and analyse, appropriate documentary and non-written sources of historical information; research and write about local history; as well as how local history research is presented and published. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. 1D647E1A-A34D-0001-BB4B-11F019A81B73 2. Evaluate the methodological and historiographical issues of concern to professional local historians 5. 1 6. 1D647E1A-A677-0001-4826-E2D27AC113D5 7. Discriminate between local history written according to high academic standards and that of inferior quality 10. 2 11. 1D647E1A-AA4B-0001-E398-D4F01E05196C 12. Appraise the different strands that have contributed to the development of Irish local history in the past three decades and defend local history as a valid field of academic research 15. 3 16. 1D647E1A-AA4E-0001-3311-134092A110DA 17. Assess research proposals and critically evaluate a piece of published local history 20. 4 21. 1D996861-3DBD-0001-F5B3-EC26A22319B2 22. Generate a viable research proposal that identifies key primary and secondary sources and project milestones 25. 5 26. 1D647E1A-AFA3-0001-46A2-6E2014EC1E9E 27. Critique the documentary and non-documentary primary sources available for writing local history and demonstrate a facility in working with these sources 30. 6 31. 1D647E1A-B153-0001-1179-1C431B806930 32. Carry out an original local history research project that complies with professional standards and conventions 35. 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
Unit 1: Introduction to Local History Unit 1 Introduction to Local History Historiography and Schools of History; Defining Local History Community; Place orientated approaches & Historical Geography People oriented Local History; Aims of the Local Historian Unit 2: Approaches to researching and Writing Local History I Unit 2: Planning a Local History Project Unit 3: Researching and writing local history II Unit 3: Researching and Writing Local History Unit 4: Documentary Sources for Local History (Part 1) Unit 4: Sources for local history (part 1) Books of Survey and Distribution; Tithe Applotment Books; The Primary Valuation of Tenements (Griffith’s Valuation); Estate records Census Records: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Unit 5: Documentary Sources for Local History (Part 2) Unit 5: Sources for local history (part 2) Unit 6: Documentary Sources for Local History (Part 3) UNIT 6: Sources for local history (part 3) Unit 7: Non-written sources for local history Unit 7: Non-written sources for local history Unit 8: Guidelines for the presentation and publication of local history Unit 8: Presentation and IHS Referencing Guidelines for the presentation and publication of local history | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List Books: None Articles: None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other Resources None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||