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2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HIST3750 Canada, America and the Origins of the Cold War 1945 - 1949

40 creditsClass Size: 16

Module manager: Dr M Thornton
Email: m.thornton@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

- To analyse how and why the Cold War developed as the dominant factor in international politics in the early post-war period.
- To further develop written skills and skills in oral presentation.

Skills outcomes
Further enhances Common Skills listed below:

- High-level skills in oral and written communication of complex ideas.
- Independence of mind and self-discipline and self-direction to work effectively under own initiative.
- Ability to locate, handle and synthesize large amounts of information.
- Capacity to employ analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to engage constructively with the ideas of their peers, tutors and published sources.
- Empathy and active engagement with alternative cultural contexts.

Plus:
- Skills in interpretation and analysis of complex documentary-based material.


Syllabus

The years covered are those between the Yalta Conference of 1945 when the wartime 'Big Three' Alliance still seemed in tact and the Berlin Blockage of 1948-49, which hardened the divisions between the West and the Soviet Union and left the 1950s as a decade of uncompromising rivalry between the Communist and Western blocs.

The various schools of thought on the origins of the Cold War will be considered and much time devoted to North American actors in the drama.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Workshop41.004.00
Seminar222.0044.00
Private study hours352.00
Total Contact hours48.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)400.00

Private study

- Exam preparation;
- researching, preparing, and writing assignments;
- undertaking set reading; and
- self-directed reading around the topic.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Contributions to class discussions,
- two assessed exercises,
- an exercise or exercises worth 10% of module marks.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Oral PresentationFormat to be determined by tutor.10.00
Essay1 x 4,000 word assessed essay to be submitted by 12 noon Monday, exam week 2, semester 140.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)50.00

10% oral presentation is redone with `an equivalent written exercise¿


Exams
Exam typeExam duration% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)3 hr 50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 23/02/2016

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