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Undergraduate Course: Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640 (ECSH10016)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaEconomic and Social History Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe course is taught over one semester in 24 class hours, made up of twice weekly 1.5 hour sessions over 8 weeks. The first session of each week is a relatively informal lecture and the second is based on a short student presentation followed by discussion. The course is concerned with popular mentalities, beliefs and attitudes in England and Scotland in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centureis. Its aim is to examine the ways in which ordinary men and women lived their lives and conceived of their world. Though concerned with a study of society in the round, the main focus is on the experience of those people below the level of the wealthy and educated elite yeomen and husbandmen, craftsmen and women, tradespeople and artisans, labourers and paupers. Themes covered include the social order; rural and urban community; crime and the law; popular protest; family and women.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Students MUST NOT also be taking Society and Culture in Britain, 1560-1640 (ECSH10015)
Other requirements A pass or passes in 40 credits of first level historical courses or equivalent and a pass or passes in 40 credits of second level historical courses or equivalent.
Before enrolling students on this course, Directors are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Secretary to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 503783).
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  26
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-11 14:00 - 15:50
CentralLecture1-11 14:00 - 15:50
First Class Week 1, Monday, 14:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. Room G.16, Doorway 4, Teviot Place - IMPORTANT: CLASSES ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS, 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Additional information Sessions run 2.00pm-3.30pm, not standard University teaching period
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1) WebCT enabled:  No Quota:  4
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-11 14:00 - 15:50
CentralLecture1-11 14:00 - 15:50
First Class Week 1, Monday, 14:00 - 15:50, Zone: Central. Room G.16, Doorway 4, Teviot Place - IMPORTANT: CLASSES ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS, 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Additional information Sessions run 2.00pm-3.30pm, not standard University teaching period
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
- At the end of the course, students should have a strong understanding of the early modern period as a formative and crucial one in shaping some of the developments with which they may be familiar from their study of later centuries.
- Students will gain an appreciation of the ways in which, and with what success, historians have reconstructed the experience of that majority of the population below the level of the social elite at a time when few of them had the ability to record their thoughts and feelings directly.
- Students will have been encouraged to consider some of the issues and the methods which currently concern historians of culture and which are now at the leading edge of research and writing.
- Student-led seminars are intended to develop the presentation and verbal skills of participating students.
- Written assignments are intended to develop the literary skills of students and their ability to construct coherent argument and analysis.
Assessment Information
One essay of 3000 words which will count as 25% of the final assessment.

One two-hour degree exam which will count as 75% of the final assessment.
Visiting Student Variant Assessment
- one assignment = 25% final mark
- one take-home examination paper in weeks 11-12 = 75% final mark
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Study Abroad Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Adam Fox
Tel: (0131 6)50 3835
Email: Adam.Fox@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Caroline Cullen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3781
Email: caroline.cullen@ed.ac.uk
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