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We are committed to delivering accessible, innovative and imaginative courses, with a strong emphasis on student participation and involvement
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Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops and one-to-one discussion and feedback sessions. Class sizes are small in comparison to many other universities and students receive considerable personal attention and support from staff
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Student involvement is encouraged through a range of activities including analysing primary sources in the Record Office, debating two-sides of an historical problem with class mates or using a computer programme to organise and evaluate census data
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Assessment is equally varied and includes essays, exams, primary source exercises, learning logs, literature reviews, oral presentations, book reviews, documentary film-making and group research projects
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At each level of the degree programme students will be introduced to a range of historical and transferable skills that will gradually build in complexity. Students will be given plenty of opportunities to practise, develop and master these new skills as the degree programme unfolds
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By the final year students will have gained sufficient confidence and proficiency to undertake their own piece of historical research (the dissertation) on a topic of their choosing, supervised by a member of staff
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The option of undertaking a work placement in the final year also offers students the chance to relate the skills they have developed to an employment setting
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Students at UCS also have the opportunity to go on relevant field-trips and outings. Recent trips have included visiting an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London and a trip to the historic village of Lavenham
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UCS students also benefit from the lively range of outside speakers who headline our History and School of Arts and Humanities seminar series