Course Delivery

At Chichester you will find that teaching methods in History vary widely. Your core subject knowledge will be acquired by overview lectures and other direct forms of tutor-led teaching supported by prescribed weekly reading. This will be balanced by more student-centred learning contexts such as seminars, small groupwork, tutorials, email discussion groups, independent study and student-led presentations.

At Level One, you will be provided with an introductory knowledge of the various historical fields of study through broad surveys of key periods and taught a range of effective study techniques. You will also be introduced to some of the most recent theories and approaches surrounding the writing of history. At Levels Two and Three the intellectual demands made upon you are greater, but you will be well supported in this development through tutorials and student support sessions with your own Personal Tutor.

All of our teaching methods are designed to help you develop and enhance the core skills of effective study and reading, fluency of oral and written expression and IT skills where appropriate: we aim to help you gain expertise as independent and self-aware learners.

Assessment

History at Chichester prides itself on a wide range of assessment types that we think reflect and test out the necessary skills for you to acquire in order to become a history graduate and take your place in the wider community. We want you to be able to demonstrate the full extent of your knowledge, abilities and skills. In addition to essays of varying lengths therefore (still the most common form of assessment in history degrees everywhere), we offer opportunities to undertake shorter written tasks such as book reviews or field-trip reports, individual and group oral presentations and the analysis of visual and material sources (films, TV programmes, artistic works and heritage sites, both virtual and real).

All of our assessment procedures allow students the chance to demonstrate how they are progressing on a module before the final piece of assessment is submitted and you will be given high levels of academic and personal support for this through one-to-one feedback and group tutorials.