Module ARA3048 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA3048: Oral History: Principles and Practice
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- What makes Oral History Different?
- Voices from the Past: the Potential and Uses of Oral History
- Oral History and Poisonous Knowledge: Trauma and Testimony
- Perspectives from Practitioners: Q and A with oral historian
- Memory and Oral History
- Ethics and Risks workshop
- Technical Skills workshop
- Partners in Knowledge Production: Interview Skills workshop
- Preparing for the Archive: Transcription and Editing workshop
Theoretical Perspectives covered will include:
- Oral History as Public History
- Oral History and the Subaltern
- Oral History as Performance
- Subjectivities and Identities
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 270 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning and teaching activities | 30 | 11 x 2 hour classes plus 8 x 1-hour lectures. You will need to complete all readings prior to class and be ready to participate. |
| Guided independent study | 99 | 9 hours per week: allocated readings/sources, general seminar/workshop preparation |
| Guided independent study | 20 | First formative assessment |
| Guided independent study | 16 | Second formative assessment (using methodology to generate questions) |
| Guided independent study | 25 | Planning and risk assessment |
| Guided independent study | 60 | Completing major assignment (interview, preparation of materials, transcription of entire interview, presentation) |
| Guided independent study | 50 | Analytical essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Some relevant online Oral History projects and initiatives:
Middle East:
Al-Nakba’s Oral History Project
https://www.palestineremembered.com/OralHistory/
Arab Immigration Oral History Digital Collection
Arabic Communities: People Portraits by Duke Students
https://sites.duke.edu/arabiccommunities/
The Iranian Oral History Project
https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp
Young People From Diyarbakir and Mugla Speak Out (Gencler Anlatiyor)
http://www.gencleranlatiyor.org/static/english/main/v8.html
Local to Devon:
Telling our Stories, Finding our Roots: Exeter’s Multicultural History
http://www.tellingourstoriesexeter.org.uk/
Cornish Story
General
The Oral History Society
Oral History Collections of the British Library
https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history
Oral History Collections at the Library of Congress
