y form using appropriate source documentation
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- critically and comparatively appraise source texts
- give an oral presentation examining a source text, and respond to questions or comments from others
- contribute to group discussion
- engage members of scientific and non-scientific communities in discussions about the development and status of scientific disciplines
- Analytical skills
- Discussions during seminars and the essay writing require use of concepts and analysis to develop arguments.
- Group/team working
- Depending on the reading, students might be asked to contribute to group discussion.
- Students are trained to develop own arguments and express views on set readings.
- Project management
- With the consultation of their unit coordinator, students research and write their essay projects independently.
- Oral communication
- Each seminar is reading-based discussion, students are asked to read and communicate their understanding of the texts.
- Students need to complete two essays based on independent research in HSTM.
- Written communication
- Students write two essays for this unit.
Essay 1 - 3000 words in length - 50% weighting within the unit
Essay 2 - 3000 words in length - 50% weighting within the unit
The seminar discussion format of the course gives all students regular opportunities to discuss their ideas with teaching staff. Staff are also available to discuss essay proposals and general course performance by appointment, on a one-to-one basis. All coursework is double-marked, and essay scripts are returned to the students with both sets of markers’ comments.
- Thomas J Misa, Leonardo to the Internet: technology and culture from the Renaissance to the present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004, chapter 3 onwards.
- Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith, Engineering Empires: a cultural history of technology in nineteenth-century Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2005.
- Jon Agar, Science in the 20th Century and Beyond. London: Polity 2013.
- David Edgerton, Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006.
|Independent study hours|
|Vladimir Jankovic||Unit coordinator|