The Gothic ghost
90 minRead haunting as a literary technology for history, inheritance and the return of the repressed.
Haunting in Modern Culture
Analyse how modern media and places manufacture presence, uncertainty and commercial memory.
Study requirement: complete Spiritualism, Seance and Technology before this level opens. You may purchase it in advance or choose the complete pathway.
The syllabus.
Six 90-minute guided modules account for approximately nine hours. Source work, the field notebook capstone, revision and final assessment add approximately three hours.
Cinema, sound and the architecture of fear
90 minAnalyse how framing, off-screen space and sound make an absent figure present.
Urban legends and digital haunting
90 minFollow ghost stories through friend-of-a-friend authority, forums, video and algorithmic circulation.
Instruments at the haunted edge
90 minEvaluate meters, recorders, cameras and apps by calibration, baseline and inference.
Dark tourism and haunted heritage
90 minBalance atmosphere, local economy, evidence and respect at sites sold through haunting.
Curating the uncertain presence
90 minCreate an exhibition in which testimony, technology and doubt remain visible together.
Timed project route
Three-hour capstone studio
Turn the six notebook checkpoints into a coherent advanced-level inquiry. The result should demonstrate how to design an independent inquiry, test rival explanations and communicate responsibly to a public audience, not merely repeat lesson summaries.
- 01Frame and plan20 min
Rewrite the capstone as one bounded research question. List the six notebook components you will reuse, identify the intended audience and state what the finished work will not claim.
- 02Audit the evidence40 min
Select at least four authoritative public resources and build a citation ledger. For every source, record the item or page, institution, date, access date, direct evidence, interpretive use and one limitation.
- 03Build the synthesis55 min
Draft the required exhibition, dossier, protocol, atlas or case study. Connect each claim to a source or notebook observation, preserve local terminology and keep observation separate from interpretation.
- 04Challenge the argument30 min
Write the strongest reasonable rival interpretation. Test it against the same evidence, retain one unresolved disagreement and revise any sentence that carries more certainty than its source.
- 05Edit and document25 min
Finish the 200-word evidence-limit statement, standardise citations, add useful headings and check that a reader can distinguish fact, historical claim, interpretation and reflection without assistance.
- 06Revise for assessment10 min
Review the six module explanations and your corrected knowledge checks. Note three reasoning rules you will apply in the final assessment and one area that requires another source check.
Completion checklist
- A bounded question and clearly identified audience
- Evidence from all six notebook checkpoints
- At least four complete public-source citations
- A rival interpretation and unresolved disagreement
- A 200-word evidence-limit statement
- A conclusion that respects this pathway boundary: testimony and images are evidence of an experience or representation; neither automatically establishes its proposed cause
Research foundations.
Lessons are independently written and source-led. These starting collections support the pathway; individual modules explain interpretation limits.
A Ghostly Image: Spirit Photographs
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
Seers, Spiritualists, and the Spirit World
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