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. Evaluate the methodological and historiographical issues of concern to professional local historians 2. Discriminate between local history written according to high academic standards and that of inferior quality 3. 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 4. Assess research proposals and critically evaluate a piece of published local history 5. Generate a viable research proposal that identifies key primary and secondary sources and project milestones 6. Critique the documentary and non-documentary primary sources available for writing local history and demonstrate a facility in working with these sources 7. Carry out an original local history research project that complies with professional standards and conventions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||