Superpower: A Global History of the United States, 1898-1989 Affiliate (HIST0543)

This module is for half-year affiliate students only. Please see the 30-credit full-year version, HIST0079, for the full module description.
Please be aware that you will only be covering half of the module content described in the full module description (content covered in Term 1 or Term 2, depending on your time with us).
If you require any further information, please contact the History Taught Programmes Team.

This module will introduce you to both qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis. The course focuses on how to design and conduct a...

Discovering Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods (DQQRM) (SOCS0026)

This module will introduce you to both qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis. The course focuses on how to design and conduct a research project and so you will learn to formulate research questions and link them to appropriate methods. You will conduct interviews and focus groups and you will learn the preliminary steps of qualitative and quantitative data analysis including the use of the software SPSS. You will also engage with relevant scholarly work to be able to critically evaluate your own research practices. As part of the assignment you will design and conduct a research project including primary research and secondary data analysis. You will then prepare an outline of your research project and produce a paper where you will bring together the experiences of data collection and analysis gained during the course. The module comprises lectures, seminar groups and IT workshops.

Although crimes committed in the course of violent conflict have traditionally remained uninvestigated and unaddressed, the International Military Tribunals...

Understanding &quot;Transitional Justice&quot;: Crime, Punishment and Process (SEES0119)

Although crimes committed in the course of violent conflict have traditionally remained uninvestigated and unaddressed, the International Military Tribunals established at the end of the Second World War have led to greater demands for domestic and international responses. Following on that conflict, the adoption of the Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights marked turning points in the adoption of standards and the generation of means for their enforcement. The first international criminal tribunal was established in 1993 to prosecute violations committed in the wars of Yugoslav succession, followed by the establishment of a number of other ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court in 2002. This seminar seeks to explore issues of prosecution and punishment of crime, of the construction of public memory and forgetting, and alternative strategies to criminal prosecution. We will both explore and interrogate the emerging category of transitional justice, and consider research on the consequences (or lack of them) of efforts to generate a social confrontation with the past.