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T h e s e n i o r F r e s h m a n S i n g l e h o n o r /

T S M / H P S H a n d b o o k 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1

Trinity College, Dublin

School of Histories and Humanities

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Section Page 1 Welcome to History 3 The European Credit Transfer System 4 2 The Staff 6 3 The History Degree Programme 8 4 Single Honor Course 12 4a General Provisions 12 4b Senior Freshman Year 15 5 Two Subject Moderatorship 18 5a General Provisions 18 5b Senior Freshman Year 18 5c History & Geography 21 6 Moderatorship in History & Political Science 21 6a General Provisions 21 6b Senior Freshman 23 7 Guidelines for Writing Essays 26 8 Scholarship Examination 31 9 The History Almanac 35

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1 WELCOME TO HISTORY

This handbook provides you with essential information about your courses in History and

History & Politics. It supplements that given in the University Calendar, extracts from which

appear in bold. The directions given in this Handbook have been approved by the

Department of History. More detailed information on each individual module is provided in

the relevant Module Guide and on the Department of History’s web-site. If you are in any doubt about how the regulations affect you, please consult your College tutor or a member

of staff.

Students may take History as a Single Honor course, as the major or minor element of a Two-Subject Moderatorship, or as part of the integrated course in History and Political

Science This Handbook has separate sections for Single Honor, TSM and HPS students.

Various general regulations appear under the Calendar entry for the Single Honor

programme. Within each year, advice and regulations are set out in the following order:

Calendar extract, modules, lectures, tutorials, essays and other written exercises, examinations, and other matters. In order to avoid duplication, advice and regulations,

which apply to all students normally, appear only in sec. 4 (Single Honor). It is therefore

essential for TSM and HPS students to consult the section for Single Honor students as

well as their own. The Handbook concludes with an Almanac following the structure of the

academic year with its two teaching terms (Michaelmas and Hilary Terms). Keep in touch

It is essential that the Department of History should be able to make contact with you

throughout your career in College. Please inform the Departmental office of any change in

your postal address, e-mail address, or telephone number that occurs during the academic

year. Those going abroad on ‘Socrates’ exchanges should notify the History office (Room 3118) of their residential address during that year.

Good luck with your studies!

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THE EUROPEAN CREDIT TRANSFER AND ACCUMULATION SYSTEM (ECTS)

The development and rejuvenation of the History Course, which has been under consideration for several years, has been greatly facilitated by the introduction this year of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) across the College as a means of evaluating and accrediting all the undergraduate courses.

What is ECTS?

The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is an academic credit system based on the estimated student workload required to achieve the objectives of a module or programme of study. It is designed to enable academic recognition for periods of study, to facilitate student mobility and credit accumulation and transfer. The ECTS is the recommended credit system for higher education in Ireland and across the European Higher Education Area. The ECTS weighting for a module is a measure of the student input or workload required for that module, based on factors such as the number of contact hours, the number and length of written or verbally presented assessment exercises, class preparation and private study time, laboratory classes, examinations, clinical attendance, professional training placements, and so on as appropriate. There is no intrinsic relationship between the credit volume of a module and its level of difficulty. The European norm for full-time study over one academic year is 60 credits. The Trinity academic year is 40 weeks from the start of Michaelmas Term to the end of the annual examination period 1 ECTS credit represents 20-25 hours estimated student input, so a 10-credit module will be designed to require 200-250 hours of student input including class contact time and assessments. ECTS credits are awarded to a student only upon successful completion of the course year. Progression from one year to the next is determined by the course regulations. Students who fail a year of their course will not obtain credit for that year even if they have passed certain component courses. Exceptions to this rule are one-year and part-year visiting students, who are awarded credit for individual modules successfully completed.

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THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT ECTS It is European: its aim is to facilitate and to improve transparency and comparability of periods of study and of qualifications across the European Higher Education sector.

It is about Credit: It is a student-centred (not a teacher-centred) system based upon a

clearly defined body of work (e.g., contact hours + time allocated to study for the

preparation and execution of essays, assignments, exams, etc.) required to obtain the credit allocated for the achievement of the objectives of a particular course of study.

It is a System, based on the following principles. The ECTS works on a yearly norm of 60

credits for a full-time course (30 credits for a half-honor subject) over one academic year

where one credit represents 20-25 hours estimated student input. The measure of one academic year is 40 weeks from the start of Michaelmas Term to the end of the annual

examination period.

It is an Accumulative System. ECTS credits are assigned to course components/ modules

in multiple units of 5. In redesigning the History Course particular care has been taken to ensure the greatest possible flexibility and breath of choice through the inclusion of

modules with ECTS credits of 5, 10, 15, 20 units, various combinations of which will result

in a sum of 60 credits per year. Credits accrue over the four-year cycle. The TCD four-year

honors Bachelor degree is 240 ECTS.

It is about Transferability. By making the student in-put in different courses offered in

different universities comprehensible under the same standard measurement, the system

aims to remove the many obstacles which currently obstruct increase mobility in and

between the many different educational institutions of the E.U. and to enhance communications between the universities and other training institutions and the labour

market.

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History  Department  Staff  

Robert  Armstrong   Senior  Lecturer  and  Coordinator  of  Freshman  

Modules    

Room  3108;  [email protected]    

Terry  Barry   Associate  Professor   Room  3148;  [email protected]    Ciaran  Brady   Associate  Professor   Room  3116;  [email protected]      Joseph  Clarke   Lecturer   Room  3153;  [email protected]    Peter  Crooks   IRCHSS  Research  Fellow   Room  6     [email protected]      David  Dickson   Associate  Professor   Room  3112;    [email protected]    David  Ditchburn   Senior  Lecturer  and    

Head  of  Department  Room  3145;  [email protected]    

Anne  Dolan   Lecturer   Room  3476;  [email protected]    Seán  Duffy   Associate  Professor   Room  3146;  [email protected]  David  Fitzpatrick   Professor     Room  3113;  

[email protected]  Daniel  Geary   Mark  Piggott    

Lecturer  in  US  History  Room  3121;  [email protected]  

Patrick  Geoghegan   Senior  Lecturer   Room  3110;  [email protected]  Marnie  Hay   Research  Fellow   Room  3111;  [email protected]    Pamela  Hilliard   Executive  Officer   Room  3143;  [email protected]    John  Horne   Professor     Room  3114;  [email protected]  Alan  Kramer   Professor     Room  3120;  [email protected]  Judith  Lee   Executive  Officer   Room  3118;  [email protected]  Graeme  Murdock   Lecturer   Room  3149;  [email protected]  Eunan  O’Halpin   Bank  of  Ireland  Professor  

of  Contemporary  Irish  History  

Room  3115;  [email protected]  

Jane  Ohlmeyer   Erasmus  Smith’s  Professor  of  Modern  History  

Room  3117;  [email protected]  

Mridu  Rai   Lecturer  in  Indian  Studies    Micheál  Ó  Siochrú   Senior  Lecturer   Room  3150;  [email protected]  Ian  S  Robinson   Lecky  Professor  of  History   Room  3144  

External Examiners for Moderatorship

Dr Steve Boardman: Medieval History (University of Edinburgh)

Professor Michael Laffan: Modern Irish History (University College Dublin) Professor Anthony McElligott: Modern European History (University of Limerick)

Professor Jack Vowles: Political Science (University of Exeter)

2 THE  POLITICAL  SCIENCE  STAFF  

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PROFESSOR KENNETH BENOIT HEAD OF DEPARTMENT: (ROOM 5.03;[email protected] )

Martin Hooper Executive Officer room 5.02; 3 College Green

[email protected] ;telephone 896 1651 Raj Chari

Senior Lecturer His/Pol Co-ordinator

room 4.04; [email protected]

Michael Gallagher

Professor room 5.06; [email protected]

Jacqueline Hayden

Lecturer room 5.07; [email protected]

Christian Houle Lecturer Room 4.08; [email protected] Koji Kagotani Lecturer Room 4.03; [email protected] René Lindstädt

Lecturer room 4.02; [email protected]

Gail McElroy

Lecturer

room 5.05; [email protected]

Michael Marsh

Dean Arts 2015; [email protected]

William Phelan Lecturer Room 5.04; [email protected]

Robert Thomson

Senior Lecturer room 5.07; [email protected]

Jeffrey Weber Lecturer Room 5.08; [email protected]

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3 THE HISTORY DEGREE PROGRAMME In accordance with the spirit of the ECTS (see page 3), this is a student centred programme. The success of the programme depends largely upon student participation in lectures, tutorials, essay writing and general research and reading. Making the best use of your lectures and tutorials (1) If you cannot understand any aspect of your modules, please feel free to make this

clear during a tutorial or seminar, after a lecture, or by visiting our offices at times

notified on our doors. We welcome comments and questions. (2) Please refrain from distracting us, or using your mobile telephone during classes,

or in the vicinity of our offices.

(3) Please arrive punctually at classes and stay to the end, even if tired or bored.

Progression As you progress through the History programme, you are faced with a widening range of

intellectual and methodological challenges. Whereas Freshman modules aim to survey

national or international histories over long periods, most Sophister special subjects

concentrate on short periods or specific themes. The closer focus of Sophister subjects

requires more intensive teaching through small classes, and more immersion in documentary sources. The shift from survey to specialist work culminates in the dissertation

and research essays which form a major element of Moderatorship.

Attendance at lectures Lectures are intended to provide analysis of selected topics, and an introduction to the issues raised in the reading set for each course. They are not intended as a lazy student’s

substitute for reading. There is wide variation in the amount of information conveyed, the

depth of attempted analysis, and the style of presentation. The value of a lecture depends

as much on your responsiveness as on its technical quality. Even superficially dull lectures may offer unexpected insights.

Attendance at tutorials Attendance at tutorials is compulsory. Tutorials are designed to allow small groups to

discuss selected topics under the guidance of a teacher, and to encourage students to practise the arts of documentary interpretation, critical reading, and lucid exposition. There

is no ideal format for a tutorial, and you will experience much variation in the amount of

reading required and the set exercises - these range from class presentations and debates

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to summaries of vying interpretations and textual analyses of ‘gobbets’ taken from set

documents. The more you contribute, the better the tutorial.

Essays Essays allow us to assess your mastery of relevant secondary reading, your ability to supply full and accurate citations, and your critical and analytical skills. The ability to

synthesise information in lucid, clearly argued prose is no less important than your capacity

to carry out systematic research or reading. The more you write, the better you will perform.

See Guidelines for Writing Essays (below, section 7). Deadlines are serious. They are there in order to enable students to structure their year’s work with maximum efficiency and

success. Serious penalties for late submission apply. Extensions will be granted only in

exceptional circumstances.

Reading Without wide reading of secondary studies, you cannot hope to master any historical topic.

Most of your academic time outside classes should be devoted to reading. The quality of

available scholarship varies widely, and you should never accept an analysis without

critically assessing the evidence presented and the logic of the argument. Lectures and

tutorials are intended to guide your reading.

Research History is a process of discovery, in which you will have many opportunities to participate.

When conducting research in primary sources for your dissertation or Sophister essays,

you are performing the work of a true historian rather than a mere critic. This is also the most exciting and creative element of your training.

Presentation of Written Work All essays must be typed or printed out on A4 paper, with double-spacing and a wide margin for comments. All quotations, and substantive information taken indirectly from other

works, must be acknowledged by means of footnotes or endnotes giving author, title, and

page number. When citing unpublished sources, students should follow the advice of the

course teacher. A bibliography, listing the documentary sources, books, and articles used

(including all those acknowledged in footnotes) must be appended to the essay. The Department’s Guidelines for the Writing of Essays are found in Section 7.

Plagiarism

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It is foolhardy to steal, borrow, or buy the work of others. For the College’s definition of

plagiarism and specification of its painful consequences, consult the Calendar. A web link is

available on the Departmental website. If you copy another student’s essay, engage

someone to write your work, quote material from any published or electronic source without

acknowledgement, or extensively paraphrase such material without acknowledgement, you have committed the offence of plagiarism. A mark of zero may be awarded. Unintentional

plagiarism may be avoided by always recording the precise source for material in your

notes, distinguishing between direct quotations and summaries, and reworking your notes

into your own sequence.

Examinations The annual examination is crucial to your success. All examination papers consist of

‘unseen’ questions related to your course work, which must be answered without any

recourse to readings, the internet, other students, or anything except your memory. Even if your memory is poor in matters of detail, you can write a good answer by showing the

capacity to develop an argument. The function of examination questions is to assess your

breadth of knowledge, analytical skills, and mastery of the readings set for lectures and

tutorials.

Examination Procedures The onus lies on each student to establish the dates of examinations by consulting the

College Examinations Office Website. Morning examinations begin at 9:30am, afternoon

examinations at 2:00pm. You will not be admitted to an examination after the first half-hour.

If, through circumstances beyond your control, you arrive after the first half-hour you should contact your Tutor or the Senior Tutor’s Office (House 27, College) immediately.

NOTE: Failure to read correctly the details of the examinations timetable will not be taken as a satisfactory excuse for absence from an examination. Preparation for examinations • Your success depends largely on your work during the year, and few students perform

well on the basis of a frenzied final fortnight. However, consider the following hints:

• Always prepare more topics than the number of answers required and avoid extensive

duplication in different answers, even if overlapping questions are set. • Since the style and format of papers differ between module teachers, you should

examine papers from previous years. The History Department has regularised the

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number of questions set and answers required, leading to changes in the format of

many papers. If in doubt please consult your course teacher.

• In the days before an examination, make and memorise a list of key dates, events,

personal names, snappy quotations, and statistics relating to each topic. You will not be

penalised for minor slips, and you will be rewarded for showing mastery of detail. • Once in the examination room, always allow time to make an outline for each answer.

Though you should aim to allocate equal time to each answer, the outline will be taken

into account if you run out of time.

• Even if the question is presented simply as a topic, your analysis will be sharpened by breaking it down into linked interrogatives. Begin at the heart of the set question,

minimising general ‘introductory’ material.

• Take care with expression and hand-writing, as you may be penalised for incoherence

or illegibility. Marking Criteria You will not receive a first-class honor (I: 70% and over) without evidence of critical ability,

argumentative skill, and extensive reading, an upper second (II.1: 60–69%) without

evidence of thorough reading and clear organisation, a lower second (II.2: 50–59%) without

reasonable familiarity with the set texts, or a third (III: 40–49%) without some evidence of participation in the course. If you do not attempt to answer the set question, or if your

answer is plagiarised, you will be failed (F.1: 30–39%; F.2: below 30%). A more elaborate

set of standards for each grade, adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, may be

consulted on the Departmental webpage.

Grade Profiling In the classification of candidates, in each of the four years of the moderatorship, account is

taken of both the average mark and the grade profile of the performances on which the

assessment is based. Each performance is weighted equally when calculating the grade profile. The general rule is that the majority prevails. In the great majority of cases, both

forms of assessment produce the same result. However, in the event of a difference, the

grade profile is used to determine the final grade (and mark). Grade profiling is there to

ensure the greatest possible equity in the assessment of a candidate’s performance.

What is a grade profile? A grade profile is calculated by looking at a candidate’s graded performance across all of the courses taken in a particular year, and giving special

emphasis to the predominant grade, in other words the most frequently achieved grade

(1st, 2.1, 2.2). For example, if there are seven performances in the assessment, and a

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candidate achieves five 2.1 marks and two 2.2 marks, but the arithmetic mark is a

borderline 2.1/2.2, a 2.1 is awarded based on the grade profile. For more detailed

information about grade profiling and its application please contact the Head of

Department.

Careers Advice A degree in History disqualifies you from nothing, and reassures many employers that you

possess a wide range of adaptable skills, ranging from critical reading to pithy writing and

familiarity with basic computing. Particularly if you secure a first or upper second, you may also consider applying for post-graduate studies in College or elsewhere. For further

advice, visit the Careers Advisory Service in East Chapel. Its bulletins and announcements

are displayed on Departmental notice-boards. Also see the following webpage:

www.tcd.ie/Careers/

4 SINGLE HONOR COURSE 4a GENERAL PROVISIONS

1 In the Freshman years, students are offered a range of survey modules on

Irish, British, European, Asian and American history. Senior Freshmen may substitute a module on the history of political thought, the economy of Ireland or an introduction to sociology, for one of the History options. Junior Freshman may substitute Language Electives of 10 ECTS for a History Module. Senior Freshman may substitute Electives of 10 ECTS for a History Module.

2 In the Sophister years, students are offered a range of special subjects. The

procedure for allocation of special subjects is governed by the regulations set out in the Course Handbook. Junior Sophisters are required to take a module on historiography.

3 Senior Sophisters must submit a dissertation. Two alternative proposals of

topic must be submitted to the secretary of the Departmental Committee by the last day of Michaelmas teaching term in the Junior Sophister year. Two copies of the dissertation must be handed to the History Office (RM3118) not later than the Monday of the eight Teaching Week of Hilary Term.

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4 Junior Freshmen must, in accordance with the general regulations for honor students, attend all the lectures and tutorial classes and perform all the prescribed exercises. Senior Freshmen and Sophisters must perform all the prescribed exercises and attend tutorial classes.

5 Students proceeding to a moderatorship in History must pass a prescribed

examination at the end of the Hilary term of each year (see below). In the Freshman years only, unsuccessful candidates may take a supplemental examination in the following Michaelmas term. No student who fails more than 2 x 10 ECTS modules may pass the annual examination.

6 The Junior and Senior Sophister examinations together constitute the moderatorship examination to which they contribute 35% and 65% of the marks respectively.

7 Assessed essays form a component of the examinations for Freshmen and

Sophisters. Each essay must conform to the requirements set out in Section 7 below, and must be submitted to the secretary of the History Office (RM 3143 or 3118) by the date specified.

No essay will be accepted for the moderatorship examination unless credit has been obtained for the preceding essay or essays required for the course concerned. The late submission of assessed work will be penalised. Details of penalties for late submission are given below (‘Late written work’).

Requirements for obtaining academic credit In order to obtain credit for each term, you must be enrolled for the required range of

modules, attend at least two-thirds of the hours assigned for tutorials or seminars in each

course for which you are enrolled, and complete at least two-thirds of the total volume of non-examined written work and other exercises prescribed for each module.

Non-satisfactory Performance Students who have failed to obtain credit for one module or more in either Michaelmas term

or Hilary term, for any of the reasons listed above, may be returned as ‘non-satisfactory’ at the end of that term. You will be informed of this decision through your College tutor. If you

believe that you should not have been so recorded, you should state your case to your

tutor, who must submit the prescribed form to the Department by the second Monday of the

following term. Students who are recorded as ‘non-satisfactory’ in both Michaelmas and

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Hilary terms are not entitled to credit for the year, and may be excluded from sitting the

annual examination.

Failure to rise with the year Students repeating a year, as a consequence of failure to gain academic credit, are required to attend tutorials, submit written work, and perform all other exercises in the same

way as if they were taking the year for the first time. They may be required to take a

different combination of modules.

Submission of Written Work and Late Written Work Each essay and assignment required for the Freshman examinations, and each

Moderatorship essay, must be accompanied by the appropriate cover-sheet and delivered

to Room 3143 by 11am. on the specified date. Essays and assignments may not be

posted, e-mailed, or handed to members of staff. Students are required to retain an electronic copy of all written work in their own files.

No written work will be accepted for examination after the due date, in the absence of

either a medical certificate or an extension granted in advance by the Head of Department,

covering the entire period of delay.

Extensions will be granted only in the most exceptional circumstances. Crashed

computers, minor mishaps etc. will not be taken as satisfactory grounds for the granting of

extensions. No requests for an extension on the day of submission of written work will be

considered. An essay deemed by the Head of Department to be late will be given a mark

of not more than 40%. Where no essay is forthcoming, a mark of zero will be recorded.

Supplemental Examination A supplemental examination is held for candidates who were unsuccessful in Hilary Term of their Junior or Senior Freshman year. Students who have failed more than 2 x 10 ECTS

modules or their equivalent will normally be required to repeat the entire examination. The

format of the supplemental examination will be the same as that of the examination in

Trinity Term. The results of supplemental examinations are not classified but recorded as

Pass or Fail. No supplementary examination is available in the Sophister years; but Junior Sophisters who fail the Moderatorship examination, part I, may be permitted to repeat the

year, taking different special subjects.

Marking Procedures

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Even if you have clashed with a teacher, you need have no fear of bias in marking: you will

be marked on the merits of your work rather than your personality. Should you still have

such a fear, you may be reassured by the requirement that all examination papers be

marked anonymously. All work contributing to Moderatorship is scrutinised by two internal

examiners and an external examiner, who checks borderline or contested cases and looks out for evidence of inconsistent standards of marking.

4b SENIOR FRESHMAN YEAR MODULES Students take six modules during the year, three in each term. The ECTS equivalent for the six modules totals 60. (Course co-ordinators are indicated in italics.) A  Senior  Freshman:  Michaelmas  Term      

Europe,  c.  1215-­‐1517:  Religion,  Death  and  Culture  -­‐  David  Ditchburn      

Ireland  and  the  Wider  World,  1534-­‐1641  –  Micheal  O  Siochru      

Europe,  1700-­‐1815:  Culture  and  Politics  –  Joseph  Clarke      

Ireland  and  the  Union,  1801-­‐1922  –  David  Fitzpatrick      

Continental  Europe:  Grandeur  and  Decline,  1870-­‐1930  -­‐  Alan  Kramer      

Themes  in  modern  American  history  –  Daniel  Geary      

B  Senior  Freshman:  Hilary  Term      

Anglo-­‐Saxons,  Vikings  and  their  impact  on  Britain  and  Ireland  –  Terry  Barry      

Ireland  and  the  wider  world,  1641-­‐1815  -­‐        

Continental  Europe:  cataclysm  and  rebirth,  1914  to  the  present  –  Alan  

Kramer  

   

Ireland  in  the  Twentieth  Century  –  Anne  Dolan      

The  Rise  and  Fall  of  the  British  Empire  –  Robert  Armstrong      

Students may substitute one of the following year-long courses for one of the History courses under B: (i) PO2610 History of political thought 10 ECTS (ii) EC2020 The economy of Ireland 10 ECTS (iii) SO1310 Introduction to Sociology 10 ECTS Students may substitute Electives of 10 ECTS for one of the History modules under B

Lectures

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In each module you are required to attend two one-hour lectures per week. Tutorials In addition to lectures, you are required to attend a series of one-hour tutorials in each of your modules. Tutorials begin week 3 of each term. The tutorial groups will be posted on the Departmental noticeboard at the beginning of Michaelmas Term. The required character and format of the Tutorial Assignment in each module is specified in the relevant Module Guide. The assignment is distinct from the exercises required for the tutorial by the tutorial teacher. The Tutorial Assignment must be presented punctually as directed by the tutorial teacher. Students must complete all essays and assignments in order to be eligible to take the annual examination. Tutorial assignments in all three modules in Michaelmas Term must be submitted by 6

December 2010. Tutorial assignments in all three modules in Hilary Term must be submitted by 28 March

2011. Essays You are required to write six essays, one in each of your modules. Each essay should be 2,000 words in length. You must complete all essays in order to be eligible to take the annual examination. For details of the essays prescribed for each module, see the relevant Module Guide. Some general regulations for essays appear in section 4a above. Please consult section 7 below: Guidelines for Writing Essays. The footnotes and bibliography of your essay must conform to these Guidelines. Each essay must be accompanied by the appropriate cover-sheet and delivered to Room 3143 by 11am. on the specified date. Essays may not be posted, e-mailed or handed to members of the teaching staff. The essays must be signed for in the Departmental office at the time of submission. Credit will be refused if essays are not submitted in time in the absence of either a medical certificate or an extension granted in advance by the Head of Department (Professor Brady), covering the entire period of delay. An essay deemed by the Head of Department to be late will be given a mark of not more than 40%. Where no essay is forthcoming, a mark of zero will be recorded. Examination The examination in each module will consist of the following elements: Each Module

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o A two hour examination to be held in the examining period. This examination will

account for 80% of the total module assessment. Candidates will be required to

answer two questions from a choice of ten questions.

o 20% of the module assessment will be constituted by previously submitted

written work which will take the form of an essay OR an essay and assignment

/s. Every mark of zero given to a missing essay or assignment will count towards

the combined assessment mark.

Assessment Marks - Students should be advised that marks disclosed during

the course of the year for prescribed assessments are subject to moderation by

internal and, where appropriate, external examiners, and as such are to be

considered to be provisional until the end-of-year results are confirmed by the

Court of Examiners for the course in question.

Prizes o The Dunbar Ingram Prize of €635 is awarded annually to the student who performs

best in the Senior Freshman annual examination, provided that sufficient merit is shown. The prize is open to both Single Honor and TSM students taking History.

o A prize of €250 euro, endowed by William Dabaghi in honour of Corabeth Power Dabaghi and William L. Powers Jr., is awarded annually for the best performance in American History.

Electives You may choose Electives of 10 ECTS for one of the History modules under B. (All Broad Curriculum modules count as 5 ECTS: students must therefore choose two Broad Curriculum modules instead of a module in Politics or History; you may not select the History BC.) For details of the available Broad Curriculum courses and procedures for enrolment and assessment, consult the Senior Lecturer's Office or website and the departments concerned. Students reading any course from the Broad Curriculum must observe the requirements specified by their module teachers. The nature and format of classes, written work and examination papers may vary from those laid down for History modules. In Broad Curriculum modules an assessment mark may be substituted for the examination paper. Requirements for courses not regulated by the Department of History Students reading History of Political Thought, Economy of Ireland, Introduction to Sociology or any course from the Broad Curriculum must observe the requirements specified by their module teachers. The nature and format of classes, written work and examination papers

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may vary from those laid down for History modules. In Broad Curriculum courses an assessment mark may be substituted for the examination paper.

5 TWO-SUBJECT MODERATORSHIP COURSE 5a GENERAL PROVISIONS

For the requirements and regulations concerning the preparation and presentation of written work, the allocation of subjects and attendance at classes, see the entry for the Single Honor Course in History (above section 4).

History as a Two-subject Moderatorship Course In each year the load in History will be approximately half that for a Single Honor student.

Students will, however, take almost every type of History course, including Historiography.

Even if students major in your other subject, they will experience the challenge of writing essays based on primary sources for one special subject.

History deadlines may clash with those in other subjects

Such clashes are unavoidable in a degree course involving so many combinations of subjects. Having ascertained the deadlines for essays and other projects in your other

discipline, students should draw up a work schedule ensuring that they avoid penalties for

late submission in either subject.

5b SENIOR FRESHMAN YEAR MODULES Students take three modules during the year, two in Michaelmas Term, one in Hilary Term.

The ECTS equivalent for the three modules totals 30.

Senior  Freshman:  Michaelmas  Term      

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Europe,  c.  1215-­‐1517:  Religion,  Death  and  Culture      

Ireland  and  the  Wider  World,  1534-­‐1641      

Europe,  1700-­‐1815:  Culture  and  Politics      

Ireland  and  the  Union,  1801-­‐1922      

Continental  Europe:  Grandeur  and  Decline,  1870-­‐1930      

Themes  in  modern  American  history      

Senior  Freshman:  Hilary  Term      

Anglo-­‐Saxons,  Vikings  and  their  impact  on  Britain  and  Ireland      

Ireland  and  the  wider  world,  1641-­‐1815      

Continental  Europe:  cataclysm  and  rebirth,  1914  to  the  present      

Ireland  in  the  Twentieth  Century      

The  Rise  and  Fall  of  the  British  Empire      

Lectures In each module you are required to attend two one-hour lectures per week. Tutorials In addition to lectures, you are required to attend a series of one-hour tutorials in each of

your modules. Tutorials begin week 3. The tutorial groups will be posted on the

Departmental noticeboard at the beginning of Michaelmas Term. The required character and format of the Tutorial Assignment in each module is specified in the relevant Module

Guide. The assignment is distinct from the exercises required for the tutorial by the tutorial

teacher. The Tutorial Assignment must be presented punctually as directed by the tutorial

teacher. Students must complete all essays and assignments in order to be eligible to take

the annual examination.

Tutorial assignments in both modules in Michaelmas Term must be submitted by 6 December 2010.

Tutorial assignments in the module in Hilary Term must be submitted by 28 March 2011.

Essays You are required to write three essays, one in each of your modules. Each essay should be

2,000 words in length. You must complete all essays in order to be eligible to take the

annual examination. For details of the essays prescribed for each module, see the relevant Module Guide. Some general regulations for essays appear in section 4a above.

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The essays must be delivered on the following dates. Please consult section 7 below:

Guidelines for Writing Essays. The footnotes and bibliography of your essay must conform

to these Guidelines.

Each essay must be accompanied by the appropriate cover-sheet and delivered to Room 3143 by 11am. on the specified date. Essays may not be posted, e-mailed or handed to

members of the teaching staff. All essays must be signed for in the Departmental office at

the time of submission. Credit will be refused if essays are not submitted in time in the

absence of either a medical certificate or an extension granted in advance by the Head of Department, covering the entire period of delay. An essay deemed by the Head of

Department to be late will be given a mark of not more than 40%. Where no essay is

forthcoming, a mark of zero will be recorded.

Examination

The examination in each module will consist of the following elements: Each Module

o A two hour examination to be held in the examining period. This examination will account for 80% of the total module assessment. Candidates will be required to answer two questions from a choice of ten questions.

o 20% of the module assessment will be constituted by previously submitted written work which will take the form of an essay OR an essay and assignment /s.

o Assessment Marks - Students should be advised that marks disclosed during

the course of the year for prescribed assessments are subject to moderation by internal and, where appropriate, external examiners, and as such are to be considered to be provisional until the end-of-year results are confirmed by the Court of Examiners for the course in question. Every mark of zero given to a missing essay or assignment will count towards the combined assessment mark.

5c HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY (special combination)

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Note that Geography may also be combined with History according to the usual ‘Pattern B’,

whereby the Senior Sophister year is devoted exclusively to either subject.

Students taking History and Geography follow the same modules and are subject to the same requirements as other two-subject students in the Junior Freshman, Senior Freshman and Junior Sophister years.

6 MODERATORSHIP IN HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE 6a GENERAL PROVISIONS

1. For the first three years of this course, both subjects are taken on an equal

basis. In the Senior Sophister year, students may choose to take both subjects equally or either subject alone.

2. For the requirements and regulations concerning the preparation and

presentation of written work, the allocation of subjects and attendance at classes, see the Course Handbook.

3. The ECTS equivalents for each year of the course is 60.

Requirements for obtaining academic credit In order to obtain credit for each term, you must be enrolled for the required range of

courses, attend at least two-thirds of the hours assigned for tutorials or seminars in each course for which you are enrolled, and complete at least two-thirds of the total volume of

non-examined written work and other exercises prescribed for each course.

Non-satisfactory Performance Students who have failed to obtain credit for one course or more in either Michaelmas term

or Hilary term, for any of the reasons listed above, may be returned as ‘non-satisfactory’ at

the end of that term. You will be informed of this decision through your College tutor. If you

believe that you should not have been so recorded, you should state your case to your

tutor, who must submit the prescribed form to the Department by the second Monday of the following term. Students who are recorded as ‘non-satisfactory’ in both Michaelmas and

Hilary terms are not entitled to credit for the year, and may be excluded from sitting the

annual examination.

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Failure to rise with the year Students repeating a year, as a consequence of failure to gain academic credit, are

required to attend tutorials, submit written work, and perform all other exercises in the same

way as if they were taking the year for the first time. They may be required to take a different combination of courses. Submission of Written Work and Late Written Work Each essay and assignment required for the Freshman examinations, and each Moderatorship essay, must be accompanied by the appropriate cover-sheet and delivered

to Room 3143 by 11am. on the specified date. Essays and assignments may not be

posted, e-mailed, or handed to members of staff. Students are required to retain an

electronic copy of all written work in their own files. No written work will be accepted for

examination after the due date, in the absence of either a medical certificate or an extension granted in advance by the Head of Department, covering the entire period of

delay. Extensions will be granted only in the most exceptional circumstances. Crashed

computers, minor mishaps etc. will not be taken as satisfactory grounds for the granting of

extensions. No requests for an extension on the day of submission of written work will be

considered. An essay deemed by the Head of Department to be late will be given a mark

of not more than 40%. Where no essay is forthcoming, a mark of zero will be recorded.

Supplemental Examination A supplemental examination is held in September for candidates who were unsuccessful in

Trinity Term of their Junior or Senior Freshman year. Students who have failed more than 2 x 10 ECTS modules or their equivalent will normally be required to repeat the entire

examination. The format of the supplemental examination will be the same as that of the

examination in Trinity Term. The results of supplemental examinations are not classified but

recorded as Pass or Fail. No supplementary examination is available in the Sophister years; but Junior Sophisters who fail the Moderatorship examination, part I, may be

permitted to repeat the year, taking different special subjects.

Marking Procedures Even if you have clashed with a teacher, you need have no fear of bias in marking: you will be marked on the merits of your work rather than your personality. Should you still have

such a fear, you may be reassured by the requirement that all examination papers be

marked anonymously. All work contributing to Moderatorship is scrutinised by two internal

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examiners and an external examiner, who checks borderline or contested cases and looks

out for evidence of inconsistent standards of marking.

6b SENIOR FRESHMAN YEAR

Modules You are required to take six modules, as follows. The ECTS equivalent for the modules

totals 60. (Course co-ordinators are indicated in italics.)

A Three year-long modules in Political Science:

1 PO2610 History of political thought 10 ECTS

2 PO2650 Comparative Politics 10 ECTS

3 PO2640 International Relations 10 ECTS

B Michaelmas Term students choose two modules; C Hilary Term students choose one module:

B  Senior  Freshman:  Michaelmas  Term      

Europe,  c.  1215-­‐1517:  Religion,  Death  and  Culture      

Ireland  and  the  Wider  World,  1534-­‐1641      

Europe,  1700-­‐1815:  Culture  and  Politics      

Ireland  and  the  Union,  1801-­‐1922      

Continental  Europe:  Grandeur  and  Decline,  1870-­‐1930      

Themes  in  modern  American  history      

C  Senior  Freshman:  Hilary  Term      

Anglo-­‐Saxons,  Vikings  and  their  impact  on  Britain  and  Ireland      

Ireland  and  the  wider  world,  1641-­‐1815      

Continental  Europe:  cataclysm  and  rebirth,  1914  to  the  present      

Ireland  in  the  Twentieth  Century      

The  Rise  and  Fall  of  the  British  Empire      

Students may substitute Electives of 10 ECTS for one of the History modules under C

Lectures In each History module B and C you are required to attend two one-hour lectures per week.

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Tutorials In addition to lectures, you are required to attend a series of one-hour tutorials in each of

your modules. Tutorials begin in week 3. The required written work must be presented

punctually as directed by the tutorial teacher.

Essays Students are required to write essays in all their modules, as follows:

Politics Modules A 1- 3: the requirements and deadlines for essays in each Politics module will be announced by the relevant module teacher.

History Modules B 1 – 8, C 1 – 8: students are required to write three essays, one in

each of your modules.

Each History essay should be 2,000 words in length.

Students must complete all essays in order to be eligible to take the annual examination.

For details of the essays prescribed for each module, see the relevant Module Guide.

Some general regulations for essays appear in section 4a above.

Please consult section below: Guidelines for Writing Essays. The footnotes and bibliography of your essay must conform to these Guidelines. Each essay must be

accompanied by the appropriate cover-sheet and delivered to Room 3143 by 11am on the

specified date. Essays may not be posted, e-mailed or handed to members of the teaching

staff. All essays must be signed for in the Departmental office at the time of submission.

Credit will be refused if essays are not submitted in time in the absence of either a medical certificate or an extension granted in advance by the Head of Department (Professor

Brady), covering the entire period of delay. An essay deemed by the Head of Department

to be late will be given a mark of not more than 40%. Where no essay is forthcoming, a

mark of zero will be recorded.

Examination

The examination will consist of the following elements:

Politics modules A 1 - 3: = Three 3 hour examination papers

o In each Politics paper you are required to answer four questions from a choice of 12 – 18 questions.

The assessment of essays in each Politics module contributes 25% of the mark awarded

for that module in the Senior Freshman examination.

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History modules B and C: The examination in each History module will consist of the

following elements:

o A two hour examination to be held in the examining period commencing after the 26

April 2010 this examination will account for 80% of the total module assessment.

Candidates will be required to answer two questions from a choice of ten questions.

o 20% of the module assessment will be constituted by previously submitted written work which will take the form of an essay OR an essay and assignment /s.

o Assessment Marks - Students should be advised that marks disclosed during the

course of the year for prescribed assessments are subject to moderation by internal and, where appropriate, external examiners, and as such are to be considered to be provisional until the end-of-year results are confirmed by the Court of Examiners for the course in question. Every mark of zero given to a missing essay or assignment will count towards the combined assessment mark.

Electives With the exception of the Politics or History BC options (which are designed for students in other disciplines), you may choose Electives of 10 ECTS for one of the History or Politics

modules under B.

All Broad Curriculum modules count as 5 ECTS: students must therefore choose two Broad

Curriculum modules instead of a module in Politics or History. For details of the available Broad Curriculum courses and procedures for enrolment and assessment, consult the

Senior Lecturer's Office or website and the departments concerned.

Students reading, any course from the Broad Curriculum must observe the requirements

specified by their module teachers. The nature and format of classes, written work and examination papers may vary from those laid down for Politics and History courses. In

Broad Curriculum modules an assessment mark may be substituted for the examination

paper.

7 GUIDELINES FOR WRITING ESSAYS 1. PREPARATION

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The usual purpose of writing a history essay is to answer a specific question or set of

interlocking questions, not provide a mere chronology of vaguely related events. Where the

essay title does not consist of a specific question, students should formulate their own

question to limit the topic. Students should prepare for an essay by using the reading lists

provided by the course lecturer which are directly relevant to the subject, making use where appropriate also of dictionaries and encyclopaedias). In their reading they should attempt to

take account of any historical controversy surrounding the topic. Before writing the essay,

students should devise an outline with a clear structure. This may be submitted with the

essay.

Essays should concentrate on argument and analysis, and not narrative. An

essay which simply narrates a series of events without analysing them will always score a

low mark, no matter how well written and presented it is. In assessing essays, teachers

take account of attributes such as critical ability, range of reading and analysis, accuracy, structure, expression, presentation and originality of thought. The mark represents a

medley of distinct evaluations. An interesting, provocative, but technically flawed essay

might receive the same grade as one which is systematic, faultlessly presented but boring.

2. STRUCTURE The basic structure of any essay should consist of an introduction, a main part, a

conclusion, and a bibliography.

The introduction should define a specific question or discuss the question already posed

and outline how the student intends going about answering the question. Any terms/concepts requiring definition should be dealt with in the introduction (e.g. ‘Was the

First World War a total war?’ requires a definition of what ‘total war’ is.).

The main part of an essay should consist of several main points (3-5), which deal with individual aspects of the question posed and lead up to an answer. A clear structure will

make the argument more coherent and easier to follow.

The conclusion should be in direct relation to the introduction and summarise the

argument and supply an answer to the exact question posed in the introduction. It is no good not answering the question posed or answering a question not posed.

The bibliography is dealt with below.

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3. FORMATTING & WRITING Essays should typed or word-processed (word-processing and formatting an essay form an

important part of the Learning for Historians classes which all Junior Freshmen studying

history must attend). Pages should be single sided and numbered consecutively, spaced at one-and-a-half or double with generous left- and right-hand margins. Font size should be

12 point; footnotes should be 10 point. Quotations longer than three lines should be

separated from the text and indented (reduced font size or single line spacing are optional

but must be applied consistently). A departmental cover sheet must be attached to all Freshman essays submitted, and all Sophister essays other than term essays.

- Paragraphs should be limited to less than a page and the development of a single

point; single sentence paragraphs should be avoided.

- Write full sentences, do not link two grammatically separate sentences with a comma. I have just made this mistake in the last sentence in order to demonstrate it.

All sentences begin with a capital letter, and end with a full stop. This applies to

footnotes as well as text. Quotations, too, must be ended with a full stop at some

point: the footnote number and the inverted commas are no substitute for the full

stop. - Where possible the active rather than the passive form should be used.

- Abbreviations (e.g. ‘esp.’ for especially) should generally be avoided within the text,

where abbreviations are used (e.g. ‘WW II’ for the Second World War) they should

be consistent throughout the essay.

- Though it is quite common, the first person (‘I’, ‘we’) should be avoided or at least used very sparingly.

- Elisions (e.g. doesn’t, isn’t) as well as slang, jargon and an excessive use of

metaphors constitute bad style.

- A frequent mistake made is the use of it’s (it is) instead of its. Italics should be used for foreign words and the titles of books, films, etc. within the text.

- Numbers should be spelt out to ninety-nine, except when used in groups or in

statistical discussion, e.g. ‘75 voted for, 39 against, and 30 abstained’. ‘5,000’ takes

a comma. Note elisions: 156-9, but (for teens) 115-16.

- Dates should be formatted in the following manner: 12 December 1970 (no comma) in the text; 12 Dec. 1970 in footnotes. Elisions: 1834-5, 1816-17, except that in

article headings and in citing titles of books and articles use 1834-1835, i.e. without

elision. Place a comma before dates in titles of books and articles. Decades: 1850s

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not 1850’s; eighties not ‘80s. ‘Sixteenth century’ (noun, without hyphen); ‘sixteenth-

century’ (adjective, with hyphen). ‘From 1785 to 1789’, not ‘from 1785-89’; likewise

‘between 1785 and 1789’, not ‘between 1785-89’.

Special attention should be paid to spelling and grammar; names, place names, and foreign words are frequently misspelled. Students should re-read all their work before

submitting it and, if possible, ask someone else to read it as well.

4. BIBLIOGRAPHY Every essay must contain a bibliography, situated at the end of the essay, listing the works

consulted in alphabetical order of the author’s last name. Only works actually consulted

should be listed. There are different methods of listing publications in a bibliography; the

main thing is that it is consistent within itself and that sufficient information is supplied to

trace the publication listed.

- The title of a published work should be in italics.

- The place of publication is the town and not the country (e.g. London and not

England or Great Britain; Princeton, NJ, not just New Jersey).

- Editors should be identified as such by placing ‘(ed.)’ after their name (e.g. Roger Griffin (ed.)). For more than one editor use ‘(eds.)’.

- The common abbreviation for page is ‘p.’, for pages ‘pp.’ (e.g. p. 3 and pp. 3-5).

- Use ‘n.d.’ (no date) and ‘n.p.’ (no place of publication) where the information is not

known.

- Certain publications (e.g. Hansard) use column references (col. and cols.) rather than page references.

Books: Author’s surname, author’s first name, title, place and date of publication, edition used and

date of first edition (if not first edition).

Hobsbawm, Eric, Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (London,

1994).

MacDonagh, Oliver, States of Mind. A Study of Anglo-Irish Conflict 1780-1980 (London,

1983). Simms, Katharine, From Kings to Warlords. The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic

Ireland in the Later Middle Ages (Woodbridge, 1987).

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When listing primary sources (especially medieval) without an apparent author the text

should be listed first followed by the name of the editor. Where the author is known the

editor of the edition used must also be included.

Annála Connacht, ed. A. Martin Freeman (Dublin, 1944). Orderic Vitalis, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. M. Chibnall, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1969-80).

Articles in books: author’s surname, author’s first name, title of article, editor’s full name, title of book, place and date of publication, edition and date of first edition (if not first edition), page numbers of

full article.

Berghahn, Volker, ‘Demographic growth, industrialization and social change’, in Mary

Fulbrook (ed.), German History since 1800 (London, 1997), pp. 168-180. Lydon, James F., ‘The middle nation’, in idem (ed.), The English in Medieval Ireland

(Dublin, 1982), pp. 1-26.

McMahon, Deirdre, ‘John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin, 1940-72’, in J. Kelly and

D Keogh (eds.), History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin (Dublin, 2000), pp. 349-380.

Articles in journals: author’s surname, author’s first name, title of article, name of journal, volume and year of

journal, page numbers of article.

Lydon, James F., ‘An Irish army in Scotland, 1296’, The Irish Sword, 5 (1961-2), pp. 184-90.

McGrath, Michael, ‘The narrow road. Harry Midgley and Catholic schools in Northern

Ireland’, Irish Historical Studies 30 (1997), pp. 429-451.

Peukert, Detlev, ‘The Weimar Republic - old and new perspectives’, German History, 6 (1988), pp. 133-144.

Websites: name of website, exact website address in brackets (URL), date of access.

Trinity College Dublin (http://www.tcd.ie), 1 September 2002.

5. SOURCING INFORMATION

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Plagiarism, i.e. to take the work or an idea of someone else and pass it off as one’s own, is

strictly forbidden and may have serious disciplinary consequences, such as a mark of zero

or failure of a course. See the College Calendar, p. H14 §65; the Department of History

web site has a link (via ‘college links’).

All direct and indirect quotations, as well as the ideas or opinions of others, must be

referenced. Indirect quotations should be extensively reworded, reordered and their

contents analysed, in order to avoid suspicion of plagiarism. As a general rule, any

information taken from a book/article/website must be sourced. However, it is not necessary to source general information or facts (e.g. Hitler came to power in 1933.) which

are common knowledge and/or can easily be verified.

6. REFERENCES (footnotes/endnotes) References may be inserted into the essay as footnotes or endnotes after the relevant text passage. References must be consistent and unambiguous. They must contain precise

page references, not only for direct quotations but also for indirect ones; foot- and endnotes

should be numbered consecutively.

The first reference to a particular work should contain the same information as the bibliographic entry. The only differences are that the word order of the author’s name is

reversed, and you must include a page reference:

Katharine Simms, From Kings to Warlords. The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic

Ireland in the Later Middle Ages (Woodbridge, 1987), p. 57.

Subsequent references to the same source should use an abbreviated form (author’s surname, abbreviated title, page number(s)). Where references are identical (or only refer

to different page or volume numbers) and follow one another immediately, the second and

following ones should be abbreviated with ‘Ibid.’ (i.e. ‘just there’). However, do not use

‘ibid.’ where there is more than one reference in the preceding note. Use ‘idem’ to denote a repetition of the immediately preceding author’s name, where only a different book or article

title (and page references) needs to be recorded. Use ‘passim’ to denote that a topic is

referred to periodically throughout the source cited. Do not use ‘op. cit.’ or ‘loc. cit.’ Only

use ‘cf.’ when it really does mean ‘compare’; otherwise use ‘see’.

When abbreviating months in footnotes, note standard abbreviations: Jan., Feb., Mar.,

Apr., May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.

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Use abbreviations (e.g. for archive repositories) only if the abbreviation has been

explained in the initial reference

1 Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 (London:

1994), pp. 12-15. 2 Detlev Peukert, ‘The Weimar Republic - old and new perspectives’, in German History, 6

(1988), p. 136. 3 Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes, pp. 14-18. 4 Ibid. (instead of ‘Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes, pp. 14-18.’) 5 Ibid., p. 17. (instead of ‘Hobsbawm, Age of extremes, p. 17.’) 6 Peukert, ‘Weimar Republic’, p. 142.

Foot- and endnotes should not in general be discursive. Occasionally, they may be used to

provide further explanatory information which is of secondary importance to the point being made and would disrupt the flow of the argument.

8 SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION

Scholarship The College offers a number of valuable Scholarships, election to which is decided on the

basis of examinations in all disciplines, held annually in January (see Calendar). Students

are entitled to sit the Scholarship examination at any stage of the undergraduate

programme, but are advised to do so as Senior Freshmen, as all entitlements under

Scholarship are not tenable until the Sophister years.

A first-class honor is a prerequisite for the award of a Scholarship. No exemptions can be granted from the normal examination and assessment requirements

of the Senior Freshman year. NB This ruling applies even to those who have been awarded a Scholarship in the Senior Freshman year. Similarly, Sophisters who sit the

Scholarship examination cannot secure exemption from the Sophister examinations.

Prospective candidates are advised to approach a member of staff or their College Tutor before the end of Michaelmas Term. Formal notice of candidature must be given, using the

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entry form obtainable from the Senior Lecturer's Office or the Examinations Office, West

Theatre, during October 2010. Application forms must be submitted to the Examinations

Office in person.

HOW A SCHOLARSHIP PAPER DIFFERS FROM A NORMAL FRESHMAN PAPER In general, the questions on Scholarship papers are more wide-ranging, less closely connected with lectures and tutorials and more difficult to answer without broad reading, presence of mind and a capacity for sustained analysis. Each paper consists of six questions, of which two must be answered. There is no chronological division of Scholarship papers.

Scholarship Examination

Single Honor Single Honor candidates are examined in four two-hour papers, carrying equal weight. At

least one paper from each group must be attempted.

1 At least one of the following:

History  of  Europe  1000-­‐1250  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Ireland  1014-­‐1534  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Britain  1066–1296  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Britain  1296-­‐1603  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Europe  1500-­‐1600  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Europe  1600-­‐1700  (2  hrs)  

2 At least one of the following:

Europe,  c.  1215-­‐1517:  Religion,  Death  and  Culture  (2  hrs)      

Ireland  and  the  Wider  World,  1534-­‐1641  (2  hrs)      

Europe,  1700-­‐1815:  Culture  and  Politics  (2  hrs)      

Ireland  and  the  Union,  1801-­‐1922  (2  hrs)      

Continental  Europe:  Grandeur  and  Decline,  1870-­‐1930  (2  hrs)      

Themes  in  modern  American  history  (2  hrs)      

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Two-Subject Moderatorship

TSM candidates are examined in two two-hour papers, each carrying equal weight as

follows:

1 One of the following:

History  of  Europe  1000-­‐1250  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Ireland  1014-­‐1534  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Britain  1066–1296  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Britain  1296-­‐1603  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Europe  1500-­‐1600  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Europe  1600-­‐1700  (2  hrs)  

2 One of the following:

History and Political Science

HPS candidates are examined in four papers, two in Politics and two in History, carrying

equal weight as follows:

1 Politics 1 (2 hrs 15 min)

2 Politics 2 (2 hrs 15 min)

3 One of the following:

Europe,  c.  1215-­‐1517:  Religion,  Death  and  Culture  (2  hrs)      

Ireland  and  the  Wider  World,  1534-­‐1641  (2  hrs)      

Europe,  1700-­‐1815:  Culture  and  Politics  (2  hrs)      

Ireland  and  the  Union,  1801-­‐1922  (2  hrs)      

Continental  Europe:  Grandeur  and  Decline,  1870-­‐1930  (2  hrs)      

Themes  in  modern  American  history  (2  hrs)      

History  of  Europe  1000-­‐1250  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Ireland  1014-­‐1534  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Britain  1066–1296  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Britain  1296-­‐1603  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Europe  1500-­‐1600  (2  hrs)  

History  of  Europe  1600-­‐1700  (2  hrs)  

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4 One of the following:

Europe,  c.  1215-­‐1517:  Religion,  Death  and  Culture  (2  hrs)  

Ireland  and  the  Wider  World,  1534-­‐1641  (2  hrs)  

Europe,  1700-­‐1815:  Culture  and  Politics  (2  hrs)  

Ireland  and  the  Union,  1801-­‐1922  (2  hrs)  

Continental  Europe:  Grandeur  and  Decline,  1870-­‐1930  (2  hrs)  

Themes  in  modern  American  history  (2  hrs)  

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7.  THE  HISTORY  ALMANAC  2010-­‐2011:  SENIOR  FRESHMAN  STUDENTS  

WEEK     DATE   EVENTS  MICHAELMAS  TERM  2010    

1   Mon  27  Sept   Lectures  begin  in  all  Freshman  modules    

3   Mon  11  Oct   Tutorials  begin  in  all  Freshman  modules  

6   Mon  1  Nov   Single  Honor  only:  submission  of  essay   in  ONE  Freshman  module;  you  

may  choose  the  module  for  which  you  wish  to  submit  your  essay.    

7   Mon  8  Nov   READING  WEEK  

8   Mon  15  Nov   Single  Honor  only:  submission  of  essay   in  ONE  Freshman  module;  you  

may  choose  the  module  for  which  you  wish  to  submit  your  essay.  

12   Mon  13  Dec   ALL   Senior   Freshman   students:   submission   of   essay   in  ONE   Freshman  

module   (SH   students   –   for   your   remaining   Michaelmas   module;  

TSM/HPS  –  for  the  module  in  which  your  took  lectures  and  tutorials  in  

Michaelmas  Term)  

WEEK     DATE   EVENTS  HILARY  TERM  2011  

1   Mon  17  Jan   Lectures  begin  in  all  Freshman  modules  

3   Mon  31  Jan   Tutorials  begin  in  all  Freshman  modules  

6   Mon  21  Feb   Single   Honor   History:   submission   of   essay   in   ONE   Freshman  module;  

you  may  choose  the  module  for  which  you  wish  to  submit  your  essay  

TSM/HPS:   submission   of   essay   for   module   in   which   took   lectures   in  

Michaelmas  Term  

7   Mon  28  Feb   READING  WEEK  

8   Mon  7  Mar   Single   Honor   History:   submission   of   essay   in   ONE   Freshman  module;  

you  may  choose  the  module  in  which  you  wish  to  submit  your  essay.  

10   Mon  21  Mar   ALL   Senior   Freshman   students:   submission   of   essay   in  ONE   Freshman  

module  (SH  students  –  for  your  remaining  module;  TSM/HPS  –  for  the  

module  in  which  you  took  lectures  in  Hilary  Term)  

12   Fri  8  April   Teaching  ends  

  Tues  3  May   Annual  Exams  begin