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Undergraduate Course: The American South since the Civil War (HIST10117)

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 areaHistory Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe course will examine key themes in the history of the American South since the Civil War. There is a rich historiography about the region centred around the issues of race, class, identity, religion, and modernity. The course will focus on the nature of Reconstruction, labour and the economy of the New South, agrarian protest, segregation, disfranchisement and lynching, religion and the Lost Cause, southern progressivism, the impact of the New Deal and the Second World War, the African American freedom struggle, the post-civil rights South, and the issue of the South's cultural persistence.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations 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 2, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  26
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLectureSeminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building, (B.02)18-29 11:10 - 13:00
First Class Week 18, Thursday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building, (B.02)
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The course seeks to provide students with a good understanding of the South, a distinctive and significant American region, and its development since the end of the Civil War. In line with the other Honours courses of the subject area, this course enhances historical skills acquired by students in earlier courses by using a range of secondary and primary sources. Students will develop the ability to analyse and assess different sources available to the historian. During the course students will examine and engage with relevant historiographical debates. Students' conceptual development will be fostered through both written and oral work. The course structure encourages advanced progress in student research and writing and advanced progress in presentations and group discussions. To enable the achievement of these objectives, the course will have a seminar format and be limited to a size that will permit all students to participate actively in discussions.
Assessment Information
One essay of about 3000 words (one third of overall assessment); one two-hour examination paper (two-thirds of overall assessment).

Visiting Student Variant Assessment: When this course is delivered in semester 1, the assessment for Part-year Semester 1 Visiting Students ONLY will be:
One essay of about 3000 words (one third of overall assessment); one 'take-home' examination paper (two-thirds of overall assessment).

If taught in Semester 2, the assessment will be as detailed for full year students.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Transferable skills Not entered
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Study Abroad Not entered
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Mark Newman
Tel: (0131 6)50 3759
Email: m.newman@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Marie-Therese Rafferty
Tel: (0131 6)50 3780
Email: M.T.Rafferty@ed.ac.uk
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