Unit name | Ways Into History: A Pathway to Further Study |
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Unit code | HUMS10013 |
Credit points | 0 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Stone |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Humanities |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Ways Into History is a short course designed primarily to help mature students progress to a degree in the History department.
This course will consider the history of slavery, with a particular focus on the role of the city of Bristol in the slave trade. We will compare slavery on the West Indian and American Plantations to other historic slave systems. We will also look at the broader impact of the slave trade, how the slave trade has been remembered and how commemoration has become intertwined with modern day political concerns. Throughout, our aim will be to tackle difficult questions about both the historic realities of slavery and the slave trade, and the ways in which it’s been remembered.
The course will encourage you to develop skills in:
15 meetings, 6-9pm, Wednesday evenings.
You will be awarded a mark for the course as a whole, based on the total of the marks for two assessed essays. There are NO EXAMS! You need 40% overall to pass the course.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. HUMS10013).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.