Convenor name: Dr Shabnum Tejani
Convenor email: st40@soas.ac.uk
Office room: C314
Office hours: Wednesdays 10-12
Module dates: Semester 1
Intended learning outcomes:
LO1: Explain the main shifts in historiography in the twentieth-century.
LO2: Critically analyse the sources, methods and approaches used by scholars in historical research.
LO3: Explain orally and in written work how histories of Asia, Africa and the Middle East engage with, critique and depart from the methodological and theoretical questions in the field more broadly.
LO4: Engage analytically on questions of historiography, sources and method.
Assessment 1: Name: Assignment 1 (AS1)
Assessment 1: Weighting: 40%
Assessment 1: Due date: 24/11/2025
Assessment 1: Release date: 16/12/2025
Assessment 1: Permitted AI usage: Retrieval
Assessment 1: Format: A recorded presentation with slides of 5-7 mins critically analysing one historiographical theme OR kind of source. Student will submit the recording through panopto on moodle as well as the script of the presentation in the AS1 portal. The script should be approx. 1000 words.
Assessment 2: Name: Assignment 2 (AS2)
Assessment 2: Weighting: 60%
Assessment 2: Due date: 07/01/2026
Assessment 2: Release date: 29/01/2026
Assessment 2: Permitted AI usage: Retrieval
Assessment 2: Format: An essay of 2500 words that critically examines one historiographical theme OR source.
Page type: Module
Study year: 2025/26
Librarian name: Jotika Khur-Yearn
Librarian email: jk53@soas.ac.uk
Page template: 2025/26 On campus
