Module Code

HUR7002M

Module Tutor

Module Title

Humanities Now

Level

7

Credit Value of Module

30 credits

Assessment Task

Task Description

You are asked to produce a 5,000-word critical essay, presented in the form of a reflective learning journal. The essay should critically engage with the key themes, debates, and readings of the module, while also demonstrating how your own understanding of ‘the humanities’ has developed across the semester. The work should not be a simple diary. Instead, it should be a critically framed reflection: a curated selection of your weekly notes, observations, and insights, shaped into a coherent essay that combines personal engagement with scholarly analysis.

Guidance on Approach

• Keep a weekly journal during the module (e.g. notes on seminars, readings, talks). These will form the raw material of your essay.
• At the end of the module, curate and organize these entries into a structured essay (with introduction, thematic sections, and conclusion).
• The essay should balance: descriptive reflection (your encounters with module content); critical analysis (how these relate to wider debates, theories, and scholarship); and should aim to show how your thinking has developed over time, and how your reflections illuminate the value and role of the humanities today.
• You are advised to include critical engagement/discussion of any of the modules reading, as well as any additional and relevant material you have uncovered during your research.
• You are expected to include a Bibliography, being in this context, a list of works consulted during research (instead of merely works cited).

Method of Submission

Turnitin submission link on Moodle

Due Date

Expected Feedback Date

Format of Feedback

Typed feedback within Moodle, available via the relevant assignment link, via Turnitin/Grademark

Learning Outcomes

7.1 Critically explore and evaluate published and emergent literature in relation to your own research area and the value of this to your chosen field and specific research.

7.2 Identify, explore, and interpret research methodologies as they apply generally to the Humanities and specifically to your project.

Assessment Regulations

Please see the Code of Practice for Assessment for the following aspects https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/policies-and-documents/code-of-practice-for-assessment/ :

• Your attention is drawn to the University policy on cheating and plagiarism. Penalties will be applied where a student is found guilty of academic misconduct, including termination of programme.
• You are required to keep to the word limit set for an assessment and to note that you may be subject to penalty if you exceed that limit.
• For late or non-submission of work by the published deadline or an approved extended deadline, see the policy. Where a re-assessment opportunity exists, a student will normally be permitted only one attempt to be re-assessed for a capped mark.
• An extension to the published deadline may be granted to an individual student if they meet the eligibility criteria of the Exceptional Circumstances policy.