This module is for half-year affiliate students only. Please see the 30-credit full-year version, HIST0152, for the full module description.

Please be aware...

The Roman Empire from Augustus to Theodosius I Affiliate (HIST0153)

This module is for half-year affiliate students only. Please see the 30-credit full-year version, HIST0152, 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.

To give students insight into how a true collaborative research project works inside the departmental environment and enable them to organise and carry out...

Advanced Biodiversity and Macroevolutionary Studies (GEOL0036)

To give students insight into how a true collaborative research project works inside the departmental environment and enable them to organise and carry out their own research.
	To introduce students to the process of writing in a scientific paper format, complete with review and revision.
	To give students experience of researching a palaeontological topic, critically appraising recent work, and producing a synthesis of this as an oral presentation.
By the end of the course, students should be familiar with:

scientific literature searches, review writing and referencing.
	critical evaluation of competing lines of evidence.
	carrying out original research, involving data collection and collation, use of computerized analytical packages, relevant statistics (e.g. the projects often involve the use of R packages to analyze phylogenetic, morphometric, biogeographic data etc.).
	writing a scientific paper and formatting it for a journal.
	creating and presenting a talk suitable for an academic audience.

This is a first-year foundational module which introduces students to aspects of studying European history from the Protestant Reformation to present days. The...