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Class info

16 January 2006

The classes will be in Hugh Owen D54, Friday mornings 10-12 (first class 3 February). These two-hour classes will be divided up into a mixture of lectures and more informal seminar-type discussion. We’ll have an internet connection and projector in order to make use of web resources as appropriate.

Edited to add, for anyone who might be a little confused about the organisation of the module, which is a bit different from most of your courses:

The Friday morning sessions each week (ten of them in total) are the only classes for this course and there are no additional seminar groups. Attendance is compulsory. There will be no more than 15 students (probably fewer) in the class. The emphasis, perhaps even more than usual, is very much on your own work out of class hours. You need to do reading of both secondary and primary sources before each class, and you will have to do some substantial work for the research project which is the main assignment. (More on that in a few weeks.)