2026/7, Trimester 1, In Person, Edinburgh Napier University
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| Occurrence: | 002 |
| Primary mode of delivery: | In Person |
| Location of delivery: | SIGHTHILL |
| Partner: | Edinburgh Napier University |
| Member of staff responsible for delivering module: | John Burnett |
| Module Organiser: | |
| Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH)) |
| Mode of activity | Learning & Teaching Activity | NESH (Study Hours) | NESH Description |
| Face To Face | Lecture | 14 | You will receive a two-hour in-person lecture covering the broad outline of the topic for each week. Focusing on formative moments in twentieth-century Britain, the lectures trace the development of key issues and themes and explore how they connect to British society today.
Short extracts from documentaries will be used to highlight specific aspects of the week’s theme and connect with the questions you’ll discuss in tutorials. [LOs 1-4] |
| Face To Face | Tutorial | 6 | Tutorials are one-hour in-person sessions that build on what you’ve covered in the lecture. They’re designed to deepen your understanding of the week’s topic through discussion and close engagement with key texts.
Make sure you come prepared by completing the assigned pre-reading before each session, so you can contribute to the discussion and engage with any additional material provided that week. [LOs 1-4] |
| Online | Guided independent study | 142 | Your guided independent study time involves going over lecture, tutorial, and workshop notes after classes, engaging in independent reading beyond the essential and recommended readings, and working on the different parts of the assessment. [LOs 1-5] |
| Online | GROUPIND_STUDY | 10 | As part of your primary source evaluative assessment, you will work with your group to plan, research, edit, and finalise your joint report. [LOs 4-5]
Weekly guidance on Moodle will point you to resources to help build your knowledge. |
| Independent Learning | Seminar | 14 | A series of online seminars will focus on practical tasks to help you complete the assessment successfully. You will also be introduced to a series of tasks that feed into the face-to-face workshops that follow. Guidance will be provided on the key aspects of the primary sources you’ll need to engage with, and on how to find the reading material required for the assignment. [LOs 1-5] |
| Face To Face | Practical classes and workshops | 14 | A series of interactive two-hour workshops in a computing lab will take you through the key tasks linked to the assessment. Building on the preparatory work from the online practical sessions, your tutor will guide you in evaluating media sources, identifying the historical context for each primary source, analysing key themes, and finding the readings you need for your evaluative report.
Some workshops will also focus on study skills. [LOs 4-5] |
| Total Study Hours | 200 | |
| Expected Total Study Hours for Module | 200 | |
| Assessment |
| Type of Assessment | Weighting % | LOs covered | Week due | Length in Hours/Words | Description |
| Report | 100 | 1~2~3~4 | Week 13 | , WORDS= 2000 words | For this group assignment, you'll pick a historical newspaper item from The Times Digital Archive (chosen from a list your module leader provides) and write a 2,000-word report worth 100% of your mark, submitting just one copy per group to Turnitin by week 13. The report has three core sections: first, reflect on newspapers as a historical tool — thinking about bias, tone, readership, and how The Times specifically fits into the broader media landscape of its era. Second, place your article in its historical context, explaining what was happening in society at the time and how that shaped both what was written and how it would have been received. Third, focus on 3–4 specific aspects from the newspaper source you’ve chosen to analyse, grouped under clear thematic headings, and use authoritative academic sources (with proper page numbers in your citations) to offer some evaluation and analysis. |
| Component 1 subtotal: | 100 | | |
| Component 2 subtotal: | 0 | | | | |
| Module subtotal: | 100 | | | | |