First-Year Students: Modules and Coursework Information

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Modules and Coursework Information

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History Modules:

Go to the CMR (Course Materials Repository) for module information, including reading lists, module outlines, and other course materials.

Module	Module Title	Module Director	Seminar teachers
HR100-4-FY	The Making of the Modern World, 1776-1989	Dr Jeremy Krikler	Dagmar Engelken Kayleigh Page Elliott Hicks
HR111-4-FY	Society, Culture and Politics in Europe 1500-1750	Dr Amanda Flather	Amanda Flather Matthew Vester Tom Freeman Neil Younger Jon Vallerius
HR101-4-AU	History Workshop	Dr Amanda Flather	Amanda Flather Elena Hore Michael Goodrum
HR121-4-AU	From Disunity to Unity: an introduction to the history of Europe in the twentieth century	Dr Dagmar Engelken	Rachel Duffett Jo Frew Dagmar Engelken
HR141-4-AU	Introducing Latin American history: from 16th-century conquest to 19th-century modernisation	Dr Matthias Röhrig Assunção	Matthias Röhrig Assunção Michael Goodrum
HR151-4-SP	Reform and Revolution in Russia, 1861-1953	Dr Tony Swift	Tony Swift Rachel Duffett
HR162-4-SP	'The Great Experiment': United States history from 17th-century settlement to the 1970s	Dr Margaret Graham	Margaret Graham Mark Walker Michael Goodrum

Module Teachers

First-year modules are taught by teams of specialists in history whose research interests focus on specific themes and geographic areas.

Lecturers and seminar teachers for these modules are listed above. Details of their room numbers, internal phone numbers and e-mail addresses can be found from on the staff pages of this website.

All teachers hold weekly office hours during term-time when students can consult them about any aspects of the module. Details of the times of office hours will be posted on the History Department noticeboard and by individual teachers on their office doors. You may also contact any of them by e-mail if you prefer.

Assessment Criteria

Click below to see how the assessment sheets identify the criteria on which your assignments will be marked, along with information on the marking scales, and the Assessment Checklist which must be completed and attached to all first-year coursework.

Assessment Criteria and Marking Scale
Assessment Feeback Sheets: Essay; Primary Source Criticism; Seminar Participation; Spring-term Essay.
Assignment Checklist

Submitting Essays

All essays must be submitted through the Online Coursework Submission (OCS) system on or before the deadline date, with a paper copy to the History Office (room 5NW.7.18) within 24 hours of the deadline. It is recommended that you familiarise yourself with the online submission process in advance of your first essay deadline. The OCS website contains a practice submission for you to try which may identify any software compatibility or other problems.

Please note that the History Office closes at 4.45pm (Monday–Thursday) and 4.30pm (Friday). Vacation closing times may vary.

If there are exceptional circumstances where you cannot submit your essay on-line and the essay has to be submitted by post it MUST be sent to the History Office by *** RECORDED DELIVERY***. This is the only way in which you will have proof of posting in case your essay gets lost in the post. You must then check with the History Office to confirm receipt.

Coursework Deadline Policy

There is a single policy at the University of Essex for the late submission of coursework in Undergraduate courses: All coursework submitted after the deadline will receive a mark of zero. No extensions will be granted. A student submitting coursework late will have the University’s and department’s arrangements for late submission drawn to their attention.

The policy states that the mark of zero shall stand unless you submit satisfactory evidence of extenuating circumstances that indicate that you were unable to submit the work by the deadline. More information about extenuating circumstances relating to late submission of coursework is available via the Registry webpages at www2.essex.ac.uk/academic/students/ug/crswk_pol.htm

Essay Deadlines

In order to make sure that you submit an essay by the deadline you must be organised and start the work for your essay well in advance of the essay deadline. You must allow yourself time to find and read the necessary books and articles, to think about and plan your essay, to read and think some more, and then to write up your essay.

Essay deadline dates will be announced at the start of the academic year by module teachers and published on the History website here.

Writing essays to specified deadlines throughout the academic year is an important aspect of the educational experience of doing your degree. It develops your ability to plan and organise your own work and time efficiently, and enables you to apply lessons learnt in the writing of essays earlier in the year to essays written later in the year. The reasons for having a strict system of essay deadlines (see paragraph above on the coursework deadline policy) are:

i) to reinforce the importance of meeting deadlines;
ii) to ensure that no students have an unfair advantage in taking longer to do their essays than others;
iii) and to ensure that staff members are able to use their time for marking essays as efficiently as possible and in a way which is most beneficial to all students.

Last modified on: 15 October 2012