Year 2 Options

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Year 2 Options

• This may sound silly, but I didnt realise how
  important choosing courses for the second year
  actually was Week 1, Autumn Term, 2nd Year

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Time Table
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Options

• Why arent some courses offered?
• Why wont some courses run?
• Research, APW, Unforeseen circumstances, Numbers.
• Allocation, Cont Hist priorities, 1st come 1st
  served.
• (CDEC course isnt running)

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Check course descriptions

• look at course descriptions which have been
  given to you,
• look at student handbook online
  http//www.sussex.ac.uk/history/documents/history_
  handbook_08-09.pdf also accessible off campus
• Some current course outlines are available
  http//www.sussex.ac.uk/history/1-3-22.html not
  accessible off campus
• Choosing options.
• Are you going to consolidate your existing
  interests? choosing topics that you already have
  some background or interest in?
• Or
• Are you going to take this opportunity to
  diversify, to develop your historical skills but
  to apply them over a broader array of subject
  matter?

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Reading descriptions

• Read carefully - what sort of history? Is this
  the course you want it to be?
• Check for Course Outlines, library lists, past
  exam papers. (remember change and accessibility)
• What is a short period course?
• What is a time and place course?

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Short period course

• 12 credits. Joints take 2. Single honours take
  all 3.
• look in detail at a short period of national
  history
• CWK (20) 2,000 words Week 4, 6 8 spring term
  (depending on course)
• Unseen Exam (80) 90 minutes (2/5)Summer

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Britain in the Twentieth Century

• What makes this a Short Period Course?
• In detail short period of national history.
• Change over time.
• Historiographical debate in national context.

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Britain in the Twentieth Century

• This course is concerned primarily with the
  social history of Britain in the twentieth
  century, though the course is built on the
  premise that this cannot be understood outside of
  its political, economic and cultural context. It
  aims to introduce you to some important themes in
  twentieth century history and you will be asked
  to critically examine the most important
  contributions and debates within the
  historiography of each topic. Students will also
  be introduced to some of the sources available to
  the historian of this period.

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Britain in the Twentieth Century

• How do social trends affect wider British
  society? (socio-political, socio-economic,
  intellectual, socio-cultural) Its up to you.
• Debates and types of evidence
• Class, Gender, National identity/ethnicity. War,
  Welfare, Sixties.

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Time and Place

• Worth 18 credits x 3 (Joint x 2) Cont hist post
  1916.
• Teaching method The course will be taught by
  lectures (weekly) and seminars (fortnightly).
• concerned with some of the seminal moments in
  history since the Renaissance. Time and Place
  approaches these moments by reconstructing their
  context, focussing on temporal circumstances and
  their shaping by longer-term historical forces.

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• Time and Place
• CWK (10)Essay proposal 500 words. Week 7/9
  spring term (depending on course)
• ESS (90) Based on the analysis of secondary and
  primary sources 3,500 words Summer

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What is a Time Place course

• The questions each course tries to answer view a
  particular event in a historical manner
• These questions help us
• be analytical
• appreciate the complexity and diversity of
  situations, events and past mentalities.
• is central to an historical awareness. It leads
  to
• achieve an understanding of historical process of
  continuity and change over an extended time span
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• Visit time in different directions
• Events are represented by dates, some of which
  are well-known and some not.

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Time Place
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1942 Holocaust
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Fill in form

• Check you have the right form
• Think about this carefully.
• All single honours History students take 3 short
  period courses. Then in Spring and Summer take
  three time and place options. Label 1 - 6. Joints
  take 2 labelled 1-4. Note that these are all
  assessed by 2 pieces of coursework.
• Fill in ALL the form

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History single
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Contemporary History Single
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History Joint
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History Joint
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Students top tips- Put this in big flashing
lights! I cant reiterate enough how important
this is

• Read the outlines carefully. Read beyond the
  titles.
• Be clear what options relate to your programme
• Make sure that you have realised what weighting
  the courses have
• Talk to second and third year students (but
  remember the structure has changed)
• Think about how you are putting together your
  year

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When you have decided

• Return the form ASAP
• Find out what youve got - teaching list on the
  History noticeboard in Summer term. Also check
  on Sussex Direct and for email notification
• If you have had problems go and see Louise
  straight away - waiting lists are also first come
  first served.

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Time Table