Undergraduate Course: Introducing Scottish Social History (Credit Plus) (LLLE07023)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This is a for-credit course offered by the Centre for Open Learning (COL); only students registered with COL should be enrolled.
An introduction to the social history of Scotland from 1830 to the present. Explore family life, work, housing, health and leisure, and examine the social changes in people's lives. Analyse historical texts, autobiographies, visual material and oral history. Learn how to study for credit on a course with study and essay writing skills built in.
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| Course description |
Content of course
The first part of each session is devoted to study skills which relate to the history content of the course.
Week Study Skills History
1 Introduction and course content. Introduction to social history - identifying concepts, methodologies, sources, etc.
2 Discussing learning styles, time management, note taking from lectures. Family life 1830-1990
3 Visit Edinburgh University Main Library. Housing the people (1) The Tenement City.
4 Essay writing - planning essay. Practice essay set. Housing the People (2) Post-war New Towns.
5 Note taking from the written word - mind maps and referencing. Work 1830-1990 - Occupational structure and male employment in urban Scotland.
6 Hand in practice essay - feedback on experience. Women's lives 1860-1960 (1) Emancipation and the Suffrage Movement.
7 Return of practice essay discussion and feedback. Women's Lives 1860-1960 (2)Domestic Service.
8 Practice unseen assessment - discussing essay writing skills. War and Society - impact of two World Wars 1914-1945.
9 Planning a response for the unseen assessment. Health and Welfare 1830-1950 Temperance and Social Reform. The Welfare State and the National Health Service.
10 Discussing essay plan for the credit essay - review of study skills learning. Questionnaire. Society at play - Sport and Recreation 1850-1990.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- display an awareness of social developments in Scotland in the period, and an awareness of their context beyond Scotland;
- think critically about social change and the importance of class, gender and religion in historical trends;
- handle primary sources critically;
- reflect on broader study skills: note-taking, planning and writing essays.
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Reading List
Essential
Smout, T.C., 1968. A Century of the Scottish People. London: Collins.
Thompson, F.M.L., 1992. The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750¿1950. Vol. II, People and Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Recommended
Dickson, A. & Treble, J. H., eds., 1992. People and Society in Scotland, Vol III, 1914¿1990. Edinburgh: John Donald.
Fraser, W.H. & Morris, R. J., eds., 1990. People and Society in Scotland, Vol. II, 1830¿1914. Edinburgh: John Donald.
Knox, W.W., 1999. Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland, 1800¿Present. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Study skills texts:
Northedge, A., 2005. The Good Study Guide. Milton Keynes: OUP.
Smith, P., 1996. Writing an Assignment. Plymouth: How to Books Ltd.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
This is a for-credit course offered by the Centre for Open Learning (COL); only students registered with COL should be enrolled.
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| Keywords | ZZoll |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sally Crumplin
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Course secretary | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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