Undergraduate Course: British Society, 1650 - c.1880 (Social History 1.1) (ECSH08029)

Course Outline
School	School of History, Classics and Archaeology	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Course type	Standard	Availability	Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Credits	20
Home subject area	Economic and Social History	Other subject area	None
Course website	None	Taught in Gaelic?	No
Course description	British Society, 1650-c.1880 will cover the following main themes. Population and family; rural society; urban society; work; religion and belief; housing and living conditions; consumer behaviour; health and welfare; social relations and hierarchy; gender; childhood and old age.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations	Students MUST NOT also be taking British Society, 1650-2000 (Social History 1) (ECSH08026) OR British Society, the 20th Century (Social History 1.2) (ECSH08031)	Other requirements	None
Additional Costs	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)						WebCT enabled: Yes		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Central	Lecture		1-11				10:00 - 10:50
Central	Lecture		1-11			10:00 - 10:50
Central	Lecture		1-11	10:00 - 10:50
First Class	First class information not currently available
Additional information	Additional attendance of a weekly tutorial is required. Venues for Lectures: Lecture Theatre 1, Appleton Tower
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			1:30
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Resit paper		1:30

Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)						WebCT enabled: No		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Central	Lecture		1-11	10:00 - 10:50
Central	Lecture		1-11				10:00 - 10:50
Central	Lecture		1-11			10:00 - 10:50
First Class	First class information not currently available
Additional information	Additional attendance of a weekly tutorial is required. Venues for Lectures: Lecture Theatre 1, Appleton Tower
No Exam Information

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The major aims of the course, besides investigating the nature of social change, are to put in an historical context aspects of society which are also studied in subjects like Social Policy, Sociology and Social Anthropology, and to provide a historical context for students interested in subjects like English and Scottish Literature, Art and Architecture. The popular representation of history through the media and museums is a topic of interest in many disciplines, and this will be examined in various ways. At the end of the course, we hope you will have, in addition to a strong understanding of change in British society between 1650 and 1900: a) an ability to employ evidence to answer questions in written formats and also verbally. b) skills in the use of the library, library catalogues, and in the reading and interpretation of sometimes difficult texts. c) an ability to organise your own work-load and meet deadlines. d) an understanding of a range of alternative approaches to the past, text and quantitatively based, visual, architectural and object based. Perhaps the most important aspect of the course is that we are constantly asking questions and challenging pre-conceived notions about the past. Historical facts are important not for their own sake, but in leading towards an understanding of social processes.

Assessment Information
1 essay contributing 26% of the final mark; 1 short assignment contributing 14% of the final mark; 1 examination contributing 60% of the final mark. Visiting Student Variant Assessment One essay contributing 26% of the final mark, one assignment contributing 14% of the final mark, plus a takehome examination contibuting 60% of the final mark. The take home exam will be issued in week 11 of the semester.

Special Arrangements
None