any body doing or did Historical Geog?

SpencerJames · 11-12-2008 05:42PM #1

Im pretty ****ed for this no blackboard, no tutorials. I attended alot of the lectures but cant make heads nor tails out of it.

Help please.

SJ

Slash/ED · 11-12-2008 06:03PM

I'm in the same boat, probably everyone else is. Had no idea what exactly to take from the lectures at all, the CD doesn't help at all either. From what I remember from past papers whicvh I looked at a while ago though, the exam is basically write on two topics from a list he gives that don't change and the questions are rarely anything too different, so basically pick two topics and do some research online, enough to put together an essay on them both. That's my plan, and probably why he said everyone always picks the famine as it has the most information readily available.

Sarchasm · 13-12-2008 01:21AM

Is this a course about Ireland, placenames, the history of the landscape etc with William Nolan?

If so, he gave us a photocopy of a book called the Landscape of Ireland which has some really good essays on the Neolithic, placenames etc. Did he not give it to you?

In one of his last lectures he basically gave us a run down of what he'd want to see in an essay. Again did he not did do this with you?

He likes if you do a bit of your own research i.e. pick an area in the country and take examples from it.

We didn't have tutorials with him and we didn't need them. He gave us a lot of suggestions of secondary reading and as long as you took good notes and showed that you've actually thought about the question it wasn't too hard to do well.

any body doing or did Historical Geog?

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