Durham General Chat Thread

Tufts

Meaning... you haven't done any? :p:

That could be a way of putting it...

Tis okay, we've got weeks left. :hugs:

Thank gawd.

Yeah true, who knows I might just manage to get through it all.

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

Becca

I just spent 2 hours trying to make a timeline of all the paintings I've studied for my Renaissance Italy course, only i kept missing works out of it and having to start over again. Finally got it finshed on my 6th attempt! :rolleyes:

Meh you should have done it in computer. Then you could have nice images of all the painting in it as well...

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Becca

I just spent 2 hours trying to make a timeline of all the paintings I've studied for my Renaissance Italy course, only i kept missing works out of it and having to start over again. Finally got it finshed on my 6th attempt! :rolleyes:

Your course sounds so interesting :smile:

What are you going to do after it?

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Piggsil

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

Meh you should have done it in computer. Then you could have nice images of all the painting in it as well...

Nah, i have my methods :p:

Tufts, I'm going to be a teacher for 2 years then hopefully do a masters after that in medieval and renaissance studies :cool:

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee one more book done.

My degree is eating my brain.

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Becca

Nah, i have my methods :p:

Tufts, I'm going to be a teacher for 2 years then hopefully do a masters after that in medieval and renaissance studies :cool:

Cool!

Teach children or adults?

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Wez

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*River

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee one more book done.

My degree is eating my brain.

How are you going about revision? Just reading intros/conclusions of books and making sparse notes? Or something else?

I've yet to start...

I also missed that lecture on the last Tuesday (I think?) of term where they explained revision technqiues. The power-point slides don't help much tbh. Was anything interesting/useful said in it?

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*River

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee one more book done.

My degree is eating my brain.

one more book done? :confused:

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Wez

I also missed that lecture on the last Tuesday (I think?) of term where they explained revision technqiues.

There was a lecture on revision techniques? :puppyeyes:

We didn't get that.

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Wez

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Tufts

There was a lecture on revision techniques? :puppyeyes:

We didn't get that.

Yes, but you have something vaguely approaching a syllabus and textbooks! :p:

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Piggsil

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Tufts

Cool!

Teach children or adults?

Secondary school children in a "challenging" school in the Midlands somewhere...

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Wez

How are you going about revision? Just reading intros/conclusions of books and making sparse notes? Or something else?

I've yet to start...

I also missed that lecture on the last Tuesday (I think?) of term where they explained revision technqiues. The power-point slides don't help much tbh. Was anything interesting/useful said in it?

I couldn't make it either as I help out at a primary school on a Tuesday morning (and I agree about the slides being pretty awful). Apparently nothing especially useful was said other than to 'think sideways' and remember that we're not going to be credited for factual information. I've tackled half of my modules so far (New Heaven, New Earth, Reformation Europe and Experiencing Empire). The first thing I do is to go through the one book I own (usually a core text, so it's the Bartlett book for NH, NE, and The Lion's Share for Empire) slowly, armed with a highlighter and I summarise the main argument. Sparse notes are the way to go or I don't have a hope in hell of remembering any of it. Then I descend into the wonderful world of topics by going over seminar notes and any articles/notes from books that I have and brain-storming different sub-themes that come up. This part would be easier to do from the library. Finally, I look at exam questions (the Empire ones are particularly unpleasant, but apparently the lecture until this year was evil so hopefully ours will be better).

That sounds really complicated and a bit OCD now that I read it, which doesn't really surprise me. I think I'm compensating for the fact that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing in terms of the learning by forming a nice plan that I can progress through in a semi-logical manner (interspersed with bouts of panic).

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Wez

Yes, but you have something vaguely approaching a syllabus and textbooks! :p:

I miss A Level syllabuses with their check lists :frown:

.

I don'tmiss A Levels themselves though...

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Wez

Yes, but you have something vaguely approaching a syllabus and textbooks! :p:

Remind me of your course again and what it consists of? (what materials do you use? journal articles, books, reports?)

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Wez

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Tufts

Remind me of your course again and what it consists of? (what materials do you use? journal articles, books, reports?)

History and Politics.

The Politics side, in all honesty, is a bit basic. We get textbooks and you just need a basic grasp of the concepts covered and be able to formulate arguments/discussions of them with reference to real world examples across the globe. Knowledge of a few more specialist books and the odd article is necessary.

For the History side there are no textbooks. There are 'core' books, but they all differ widely in their interpretation of the period. Monographs/books, articles, essay collections etc. are all necessary and you need to formulate your own argument on topics tangential to those covered in books while incorporating the main themes of said books into the essay. Generally, you just need to think laterally a bit.

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Wez

History and Politics.

The Politics side, in all honesty, is a bit basic. We get textbooks and you just need a basic grasp of the concepts covered and be able to formulate arguments/discussions of them with reference to real world examples across the globe. Knowledge of a few more specialist books and the odd article is necessary.

For the History side there are no textbooks. There are 'core' books, but they all differ widely in their interpretation of the period. Monographs/books, articles, essay collections etc. are all necessary and you need to formulate your own argument on topics tangential to those covered in books while incorporating the main themes of said books into the essay. Generally, you just need to think laterally a bit.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that about politics. I swear I have a very small grasp of key concepts in IR, but I seem to do well in the essays even though I don't really have any idea of what I'm really talking about!

Right, back to 'thinking sideways', as Julian put it...

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Wez

History and Politics.

The Politics side, in all honesty, is a bit basic. We get textbooks and you just need a basic grasp of the concepts covered and be able to formulate arguments/discussions of them with reference to real world examples across the globe. Knowledge of a few more specialist books and the odd article is necessary.

For the History side there are no textbooks. There are 'core' books, but they all differ widely in their interpretation of the period. Monographs/books, articles, essay collections etc. are all necessary and you need to formulate your own argument on topics tangential to those covered in books while incorporating the main themes of said books into the essay. Generally, you just need to think laterally a bit.

Ahh yes. History sounds a lot like the way sociology is run *shudders* Why did I take that outside module :s-smilie:

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