Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- 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
- demonstrate confidence and skill when engaging in high-level academic discussion and debate
- interpret and reflect critically, at an advanced level, on a range of global cultural texts and case studies
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- engage in advanced debate around complex, high-level ideas and theories
- manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
- identify, select and draw upon a wide range of printed and electronic sources
- reach an advanced level of global and cultural awareness
- communicate complex, advanced ideas and arguments in an essay format
- engage in high-level analysis of texts/case studies and arguments
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- advanced conceptualisations, theories and debates around nationhood, culture, identity, imperialism, colonisation, migration and globalisation
- 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
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Seminar | 24 |
Guided independent study | 126 |
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
McGrew, Tony, Stuart Hall and David Held, eds (1992). Modernity and its Futures: Understanding Modern Societies.
Davis, Angela Y. (1981). Women, Race and Class.
Hall, JR, et al, eds (2010). Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology.
Cohen, Robin (2001). Global Diasporas: An Introduction.
Davis, Lennard J., ed. (2017). The Disability Studies Reader.
Samuels, Ellen (2014). Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race.
Muñoz, José Esteban (2009). Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity.
Couldry, Nick (2000). Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies.
Young, Robert (1981). Untying the Text: A Poststructuralist Reader.
Kafer, Alison (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip.
Billig, Michael (1995). Banal Nationalism.
Longhurst, Brian et al, eds (2008). Introducing Cultural Studies.
Paul Gilroy (1993). The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.
Williams, Raymond (1989). Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
Anderson, Benedict (1983). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
Yuval-Davis, Nira (1997). Gender and Nation.
Levitt, Peggy, ed. (2008). The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations.
Edelman, Lee (2004). No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive.
Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman, eds (1993). Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.
Hall, Stuart, ed. (1997). Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices.
Lemert, Charles et al, eds (2010). Globalization: A Reader.
Cabral, Amílcar (1972). The role of culture in the struggle for independence / O papel da cultura na luta pela independência.
Mbembe, Achille (2013). Critique of Black Reason / Critique de la raison nègre.
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