| Unit name | Memory |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HIST30113 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Dr. Reeks |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Why is this unit important?
Units in our Big Ideas optional panel ensure that as you enter your final year of study, and narrow your research agenda, you don’t lose sight of the bigger picture and the big questions about significance, impact, and meaning. Your programme has developed your ability to speak to the big challenges faced by society from a platform of authority and expertise. These units are designed to support and augment these attributes, ensuring that our students leave our university as engaged and global citizens.
How does this unit fit into your programme of study?
By the final year of study, you have discovered where your passions lie and have embarked on a programme of sustained and focused historical research. Now is the time to turn your attention towards the utility of what you know and what you can do. Together with our TB2 History at Work panel, the Big Ideas options invite you to think about what historians can offer the world, and equip you with the confidence to apply your studies to the problems and challenges we all face.
An overview of content
How do we, as individuals or groups, as societies and collective agents ‘remember’ the past? What is the relationship between ‘history’ and ‘memory’, and how has this changed over time? This unit considers the complex relationship between history and memory, engaging with case studies and ideas from historians and social theorists about ‘memory’ which interrogate its collective, social and cultural manifestations, and various, often political, ‘uses’ in specific historic contexts. Is memory always a socially mediated construction? A mirror to contemporary concerns and hopes or anxieties about the future? How does the history of memory influence its shape? How has ‘forgetting’ been theorized and realized in practice; what does forgetting certain pasts look like, and how has this been achieved or challenged? How have histories of trauma and dissonance been remembered and can memory form part of projects addressing historic wrongs, abuses and recompense? This unit takes a broad approach to memory in terms not only of chronology and geography, but also of ‘scale’. The individual; the family; the city; the nation; the institution, the globe – all root themselves in memory in some way, and all, therefore, have a history-memory relationship to be explored.
How will students, personally, be different as a result of the unit?
As your attention turns towards your capstone research dissertations, these units ensure that students don’t lose sight of the big questions of meaning, significance, and impact. Your skills as an independent researcher are greatly enhanced by your ability to speak to these wider issues. Units on this panel will give you the confidence equip you with the skills you need to frame your knowledge as responses to these ‘Big Ideas’.
Your learning on this unit
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Classes will involve a combination of long- and short-form lectures, class discussion, investigative activities, and practical activities. Students will be expected to engage with readings and participate on a weekly basis. This will be further supported with drop-in sessions and self-directed exercises with tutor and peer feedback.
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
Individual Presentation 10-minute (25%) [ILOs 1-4]
Unseen Examination 2-hour (75%) [ILOs 1-4]
When assessment does not go to plan:
When required by the Board of Examiners, you will normally complete reassessments in the same formats as those outlined above. However, the Board reserves the right to modify the format or number of reassessments required. Details of reassessments are confirmed by the School/Centre shortly after the notification of your results at the end of the year.
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. HIST30113).
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 University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
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. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
