Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ANTM004: Food and Agriculture in Historical Perspective

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

You will read works on food and agriculture produced within a range of disciplines, including archaeology, classics, ancient history, history, and anthropology. Through engagement with the literature, you will gain perspectives on both historical trends in human foodways and the particularities of foodways in specific places and times. The module will prepare you for your own research in the field of study, whether academic or within the context of public institutions, industries, or third sector organisations with an interest in food and foodways, heritage and sustainablitity.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Understand in detail how agriculture and foodways have evolved over time 2. Discern and trace historical linkages and transformations in agriculture and foodways
Discipline-Specific Skills	3. Identify the factors contributing to specific foodways within their historical contexts as well as complex interactions between these 4. Critically analyze the social and environmental consequences of historically specific foodways
Personal and Key Skills	5. Identify and critically analyze sources pertaining to foodways in various historical contexts 6. Present relevant information in support of coherent and persuasive historical accounts of food and agriculture in various specific contexts

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Weekly reading response papers	10 x 250 word weekly reading response papers, prepared before seminar and used to guide participation	1-6	Oral feedback in seminar, as well as during office hours upon request

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Portfolio of weekly reading response papers	50	2,500 words	1-6	Weekly papers, revised in light of discussion and submitted at end of term; aggregate mark and written feedback on papers and contributions to seminar given at end of term
Essay	50	2,500 word essay on a relevant topic of students choice approved by convener	1-6	Mark with written feedback
	0

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Portfolio of weekly reading response papers	Portfolio of weekly reading response papers(2,500 words)	1-6	August/September reassessment period
Essay	Essay (2,500 words)	1-6	August/September reassessment period