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This course is aimed at students from a wide variety of disciplines. It seeks to engage them in critical appraisal of UoG and its societal engagement in the past and the role of its heritage in the present, making use of its own continuing reappraisal of its history. Through that it seeks to enhance students awareness of UoG's purpose and their place within and beyond it. It combines chronological and thematic approaches, seeking to situate students understanding of their university and their future role through considering the university's medieval, early modern and modern histories through gendered, global, societal and spatial analyses. Students will work closely with University Archive and Special Collections materials and develop heritage representation skills.

10 x two hour sessions, on campus teaching, 5 hours of visits to sites. As scheduled in mycampus.

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ Reflexive biographical study (1250 words) (40%)

■ Groupwork Report (400 words) (15%)

■ Reflexive exhibit (1500 words) (45%)

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ There is no alternative to the biographical study or reflexive exhibit, but extensions to deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for extensions). . 

■ An individual written report on the development of the reflexive exhibit as an alternative to the groupwork report.

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

This course aims to provide undergraduate students from a wide range of subject specialisms with the opportunity to

■ Engage with the university's past to consider its place today and in the future across themes such as the global community, gender, slavery, war, the city, and societal change.

■ Develop an awareness of the contribution their own and other disciplines have made to the city and wider society

■ Consider how the university's historical actions should contribute to how it approaches contemporary challenges

■ Explore the university's development through the centuries through its buildings, graduates and records

■ Develop core skills of historical analysis and public history presentation to create and communicate through biographical and archival object materials the university's current and past societal engagement.

■ Reflect on their role as students and in the future as graduates both within and beyond the university through that historical engagement.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Critically assess the University and its students past societal engagement to reflect on their current and future purposes.

2. Collect and analyse historical data to develop disruptive narratives of the past.

3. Situate themselves within the University's history to reflect on and develop their future intentions.

4. Communicate and present heritage materials to non-specialist audiences, cognisant of current Public History practices.