Third Year Module
Module Leader: Dr Harvey Osborne (with Dr Louise Carter)
Rationale and Content:
This module offers history students practical guidance in planning and preparing for their future careers. Practical workshops and clinics will provide address questions such as: which careers are open to history students? What skills do history students have and how can they communicate this to future employers? What options are there for further study? How should students approach writing CVs and covering letters? These workshop sessions will also provide an opportunity for students to experience a mock interview. The other major component of this course will be a work placement with an outside employer, enabling students to gain valuable experience in the workplace and to reflect on the opportunities and challenges awaiting them after graduation.
This module will cover various aspects of career planning from choosing a career, to writing an effective CV and covering letter, to preparing for interviews. External employers and UCS careers service will also contribute. Students will be expected to undertake a relevant professional work placement normally for a minimum duration of two working weeks.
Learning and Teaching Strategies:
The formal teaching and learning sessions of this module will be taught through weekly workshops and practical clinics involving extensive student participation and role play exercises, complemented by one-to-one discussions and feedback in office hours, as well as students' own private study, preparation and reflection. Supporting resources will be made available online.
Assessment:
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Module
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Mode
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Weighting %
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Length
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Submission Date
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Career Planning
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Work Placement (14 days)
Essay
Defined task: Review
Defined task: Curriculum vitae and supporting documentation with associated presentation
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Formative
40%
40%
20%
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N/A
2,500 words
2,500 words
20 minutes plus 4 sides of A4
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N/A
Week 8
Week 12
As scheduled
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Indicative Reading:
General Indicative Reading:
Stella Cottrell, Skills for Success: The Personal Development Planning Handbook, (2003).
Christine Fanthome, Work Placements: A Survival Guide for Students, (2004).
Jerome de Groot, Consuming History: Histories and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture, (2008).
Shirley Jenner, The Graduate Career Handbook, (2000).
David Littleford, John Halstead and Charles Mulraine, Career Skills: Opening Doors into the Job Market, (2004).
Margaret Macmillan, The Uses and Abuses of History,(2009).
John Tosh, Why History Matters, (2008).
Indicative reading: (Education and teaching)
R.Aldrich, (ed.), A Century of Education, (Routledge, 2002)
A.Booth and P.Hyland, (eds.) History in Higher Education: New Directions in Teaching and Learning(1996)
S.Capel, M.Leask and T.Turner, Starting to Teach in Secondary School: A Companion for the Newly Qualified Teacher, Routledge (1997)
A.Pollard, et al., Reflective Teaching: Evidence-Informed Professional Practice, (Continuum, 2005).
A.Watkinson, Assisting Learning and Support Teaching: A Practical Guide for the Teaching Assistant in the Classroom, (David Fulton, 2005).
D.Long, Learner Managed Learning: The Key to Lifelong Learning and Development, (Kogan Page, 1995).
Indicative reading: (Museums, Archives and Heritage)
T.Ambrose, and C.Paine, Museum Basics, (Routledge, 1993).
D.Boswell, and J.Evans, (eds.) Representing the Nation: A Reader: Histories, Heritage and Museums, (Routledge/Open University, 1999).
E.Cooper-Greenhill (ed.) Museum, Media, Message, (Routledge, 1999).
G.Edson, (ed.) Museum Ethics, (Routledge, 1997).
G.Edson and D.Dean, (eds.) The Handbook for Museums, 2nd edn., (Routledge, 2003).
Graham Fairclough, (ed.), The Heritage Reader, (2007).
Jerome de Groot, Consuming History: Histories and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture, (2008).
R.Hewison, The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline, (Methuen, 1999).
E.Hooper-Greenhill, (ed.) The Educational Role of the Museum, 2dn edn, (Routledge, 1999).
D.Horne, The Great Museum: The Re-presentation of History, (Pluto, 1984)
Peter Howard, Heritage: Management, interpretation, identity, (2003).
David Lowenthal, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History,(1998).
S.MacDonald, and G.Fyfe, (eds.), Theorizing Museums, (Blackwell, 1995)
R,Prentice, Tourism and Heritage Attractions, (Routledge, 1995)
J.Swarbrooke, The Development and Management of Visitor Attractions, 2nd edn., (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005).
Indicative reading: (Media and Popular Culture)
David Cannadine, History and the Media, (2007).
Jerome de Groot, Consuming History: Histories and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture, (2008).
Graham Roberts, The Historian, Television and Television History, (2001).
Robert Rosenstone, History on Film, (Longman, 2006).
Marnie Hughes Warrington, History goes to the Movies, (Routledge, 2006).
Helen Wheatly, Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television History, (2007)