HIS3328 : Imagined Futures (Inactive)
HIS3328 : Imagined Futures (Inactive)
- Inactive for Year: 2023/24
- Module Leader(s): Dr Luc Racaut
- Owning School: History, Classics and Archaeology
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
Semester 1 Credit Value: | 20 |
ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
European Credit Transfer System | |
Pre-requisite
Modules you must have done previously to study this module
Pre Requisite Comment
N/A
Co-Requisite
Modules you need to take at the same time
Co Requisite Comment
N/A
Aims
This module explores the history of the future, the time when in Europe, people began looking forward to the future, rather than back to a bygone golden age. This implies a shift from a circular conception of time to a linear one. Looking forward to the future, the idea of progress is currently in crisis not least due to pessimistic diagnosis of global warming. It is useful to think about the history of the future, its intellectual genesis in the Early Modern period (16th to 18th century) and what the future has meant for European cultures in the 19th and 20th century in order to understand current cultural developments. The module will explore scientific optimism as well as the emergence of utopias and dystopias as models for the development of modern society.
Outline Of Syllabus
The following is a guide only. Actual subjects may differ from those listed.
WEEK1 From cyclical to linear time: inventing the future
WEEK2 Mediaeval time: stasis?
WEEK3 The Renaissance: the future that time forgot.
WEEK4 The Scientific Revolution: all steam ahead.
WEEK5 Enlightenment: building the future.
WEEK6 19th c. The Golden Age of the future
WEEK7 1900-1945: Visions of a better world
WEEK8 1945-1970: Rockets, nukes and space travel
WEEK8 1970-1990: No Future?
WEEK9 Visions of the apocalypse to come
Learning Outcomes
Intended Knowledge Outcomes
This module aims to:
1) Provide an opportunity to acquire a sound general knowledge of the subject, reading widely and
critically in the primary and secondary literature associated with it and to develop the capacity for
independent study.
2) Provide an opportunity of investigating in some depth selected problems, including the appraisal of
selected source material and the critical examination of current historiography.
Intended Skill Outcomes
Development of capacity for independent study and critical judgement and of the ability to respond
promptly, cogently and clearly to new and unexpected questions arising from this study.
Development of associated skills in research, critical reading and reasoning, sustained discussion
and appropriate presentation of the results.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 50 | 1:00 | 50:00 | Assessment preperation |
Guided Independent Study | Directed research and reading | 59 | 1:00 | 59:00 | set, recommended and further reading |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 11 | 2:00 | 22:00 | Seminars. PiP |
Structured Guided Learning | Structured non-synchronous discussion | 11 | 1:00 | 11:00 | Weekly seminar preparation, delivered via Canvas. |
Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 58 | 1:00 | 58:00 | N/A |
Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
The structured guided learning hours mightcombine short (c.20 mins) pre-recorded lecture sessions explaining key context, concepts and historiographical issues with document-based exercises intended to reinforce understanding through direct engagement with the sources discussed. These activities will inform the structured research and reading activities, which will allow students to use the knowledge acquired through the learning materials to produce their own responses and ideas to the material. These ideas will then be presented and discussed in small group teaching, encouraging independent learning, discussion, and debate, while also guiding students on how to approach primary sources and historiography in a critical and effective manner.
Reading Lists
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Exams
Description | Length | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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Written Examination | 1440 | 1 | A | 75 | 24hr take home exam of 2000 words length |
Other Assessment
Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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Essay | 1 | M | 25 | Essay/documentary commentary of 1,500 words (including footnotes but excluding bibliography) |
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.
Description | Semester | When Set | Comment |
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Written exercise | 1 | M | 500 word documentary commentary, to prepare the submission of the assessment. |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Exams test acquisition of a clear general knowledge of the subject plus the ability to think and analyse a problem quickly, to select from and to apply both the general knowledge and detailed knowledge of aspects of the subject to new questions, problem-solving skills, adaptability, the ability to work unaided and to write clearly and concisely.
Documentary commentary exercises and examinations test knowledge and understanding of the texts set for the module. The ability to compare and contrast related source texts on a common subject. The ability to expound and criticise a textual extract lucidly, succinctly and with relevance in a relatively brief space, and, in an exam, under pressure of time.
Work submitted during the delivery of the module forms a means of determining student progress.
Submitted work tests intended knowledge and skills outcomes, develops key skills in research, reading and writing.
This module can be made available to Erasmus students only with the agreement of the Head of Subject and of the Module Leader. This option must be discussed in person at the beginning of your exchange period. No restrictions apply to study-abroad, exchange and Loyola students.
All Erasmus students at Newcastle University are expected to do the same assessment as students registered for a degree.
Study-abroad, non-Erasmus exchange and Loyola students spending semester 1 only are required to finish their assessment while in Newcastle. This will take the form of an alternative assessment, as outlined in the formats below:
Modules assessed by Coursework and Exam:
The normal alternative form of assessment for all semester 1 non-EU study abroad students will be one essay in addition to the other coursework assessment (the length of the essay should be adjusted in order to comply with the assessment tariff); to be submitted no later than 12pm Friday of week 12. The essays should be set so as to assure coverage of the course content to date.
Study-abroad, non-Erasmus exchange and Loyola students spending the whole academic year or semester 2 are required to complete the standard assessment as set out in the MOF under all circumstances.
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- HIS3328's Timetable
Past Exam Papers
- Exam Papers Online : www.ncl.ac.uk/exam.papers/
- HIS3328's past Exam Papers
General Notes
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