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Year 1 History.
Note: It is recommended that this subject be taken in conjunction with 131-113 Religion, Revolution and Civil War: Britain 1603-1660.
Credit points: 12.5 1st year
Coordinator: Dr B Collett.
Contact: Three hours of lectures and tutorials per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students are to be trained to locate, access, analyse and record historical date; to grasp the main components of society in fields of economics, politics, ideologies, intellectual ideas, and the interplay between them; to be familiar with this period of history with the principal examples of stability, developments, conflicts and changes across those components; to master details of the historical events and the theoretical concepts of 'stability' 'tension' etc. ; to possess the techniques of scholarly analysis and assessment of situations, events, and changes.
Content:
After the English civil war of the Roses ended in 1485 the Tudors began to build a powerful nation-state. The subject includes studies of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, the Tudor revolution in government, the Protestant Reformation, the Anglican Church, Catholics and Puritans, the role of women and families, sixteenth century culture and cuisine, a dominating female monarch, the Spanish Armada, definitions of parliamentary authority and civil liberties, and the literature of Shakespeare's England. Students are encouraged to work from the many printed original sources available to them at this University.
Assessment:
Tutorial participation, including an oral class presentation (10%), one short research essay of 15,,00 words (40%), one major research essay of 2,500 words (50%).
Prescribed texts:
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Note: It is recommended that this subject be taken in conjunction with 131-113 Religion, Revolution and Civil War: Britain 1603-1660.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Dr B Collett.
Contact: Three hours of lectures and tutorials each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students are to be trained to locate, access, analyse and record historical date; to grasp the main components of society in fields of economics, politics, ideologies, intellectual ideas, and the interplay between them; to be familiar with this period of history with the principal examples of stability, developments, conflicts and changes across those components; to master details of the historical events and the theoretical concepts of 'stability' 'tension' etc. ; to possess the techniques of scholarly analysis and assessment of situations, events, and changes.
Content:
After the English civil war of the Roses ended in 1485 the Tudors began to build a powerful nation-state. The subject includes studies of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, the Tudor revolution in government, the Protestant Reformation, the Anglican Church, Catholics and Puritans, the role of women and families, sixteenth century culture and cuisine, a dominating female monarch, the Spanish Armada, definitions of parliamentary authority and civil liberties, and the literature of Shakespeare's England. Students are encouraged to work from the many printed original sources available to them at this University.
Assessment:
Tutorial participation, including an oral class presentation (10 per cent); one short research essay of 1,500 words (40 per cent); one major research essay of 2,500 words (50 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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