Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- engage in high-level analysis of texts/case studies and arguments
- engage in advanced debate around complex, high-level ideas and theories
- reach an advanced level of global and cultural awareness
- communicate complex, advanced ideas and arguments in an essay format
- identify, select and draw upon a wide range of printed and electronic sources
- manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how culture manifests and is disseminated through global exchange and encounter, at an advanced level
- how to engage critically with high-level theoretical scholarship.
- working and thinking globally and across cultures, at an advanced level
- advanced conceptualisations, theories and debates around nationhood, culture, identity, imperialism, colonisation, migration and globalisation
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate confidence and skill when engaging in high-level academic discussion and debate
- evaluate advanced theoretical approaches to nationhood, culture, power and identity
- employ critical and cultural theory in high-level analysis of cultural trends, narratives and texts
- interpret and reflect critically, at an advanced level, on a range of global cultural texts and case studies
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Guided independent study | 126 |
Seminar | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Journal Articles
Collins, Patricia Hill (1998). It’s all in the family: intersections of gender, race, and nation. Hypatia, 13(3), pp. 62-82.
Textbooks
Couldry, Nick (2000). Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies.
Cohen, Robin (2001). Global Diasporas: An Introduction.
Levitt, Peggy, ed. (2008). The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations.
Davis, Angela Y. (1981). Women, Race and Class.
Billig, Michael (1995). Banal Nationalism.
Samuels, Ellen (2014). Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race.
McGrew, Tony, Stuart Hall and David Held, eds (1992). Modernity and its Futures: Understanding Modern Societies.
Williams, Raymond (1989). Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
Muñoz, José Esteban (2009). Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity.
Cabral, Amílcar (1972). The role of culture in the struggle for independence / O papel da cultura na luta pela independência.
Yuval-Davis, Nira (1997). Gender and Nation.
Edelman, Lee (2004). No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive.
Mbembe, Achille (2013). Critique of Black Reason / Critique de la raison nègre.
Paul Gilroy (1993). The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.
Hall, Stuart, ed. (1997). Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices.
Young, Robert (1981). Untying the Text: A Poststructuralist Reader.
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman, eds (1993). Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.
Lemert, Charles et al, eds (2010). Globalization: A Reader.
Kafer, Alison (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip.
Davis, Lennard J., ed. (2017). The Disability Studies Reader.
Anderson, Benedict (1983). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
Longhurst, Brian et al, eds (2008). Introducing Cultural Studies.
Hall, JR, et al, eds (2010). Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Coursework plan
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Appropriate feedback will be provided.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
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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Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External