Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- utilize and develop your time-management skills.
- research historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in written essays and reviews.
- locate and use effective textual, visual and material culture sources in the library and on-line, synthesizing this material in order to develop cogent arguments.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- structure your ideas and research findings into well-ordered essays on aspects of the Jewish experience of the Cold War.
- analyze critically a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources relating to the Jewish experience of the Cold War.
- engage with secondary literature on the Cold War, and contribute to the debates relating to the Jewish experience of the conflict.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- key primary resources relating to Jewish experiences and histories of the Cold War
- Jewish experiences and histories of the Cold War, in particular how studying this conflict from a Jewish perspective challenges stereotypical readings of it
- key secondary sources relating to Jewish experiences and histories of the Cold War
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Seminar | 12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 76 |
Lecture | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 50 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Laron, Guy (2017). The Six-Day War : The Breaking of the Middle East. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press.
Zahra, Tara (2011). The Lost Children : Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II.. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.
Zertal, Idith (1998). From Catastrophe to Power : Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel.. Berkley, CA.: University of California Press.
Fink, Carole (2019). West Germany and Israel : Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965-1974.. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Peretz, Pauline. Translated by Ethan S Rundell. (2020). Let My People Go : The Transnational Politics of Soviet Jewish Emigration during the Cold War. London: Routledge.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 60% |
Written assignment | 40% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 40% |
Essay | 60% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External