Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- advanced conceptualisations, theories and debates around cultural narrative, identity, imperialism, colonisation, migration, globalisation and representation
- working and thinking globally and across cultures, at an advanced level
- how culture manifests and is disseminated through global exchange and encounter, at an advanced level
- how to engage, at a high level, with cultural texts in a variety of forms.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate a high-level academic argument in written and oral form
- interpret and reflect critically, at an advanced level, on a range of global cultural texts
- employ critical and cultural theory in high-level analysis of cultural trends, narratives and texts
- evaluate advanced theoretical approaches to cultural narrative, place and identity
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate complex, advanced ideas and arguments in an essay format
- engage in high-level analysis of texts and arguments
- reach an advanced level of global and cultural awareness
- manage deadlines and make effective use of your time
- identify, select and draw upon a wide range of printed and electronic sources
- engage in advanced debate around complex, high-level ideas and theories
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
Textbooks
Kaplan, Caren (1998). Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement.
Appadurai, Arjun (1996). Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation.
Patterson, Orlando (1982). Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study.
Mudimbe, V. Y. (1988). The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge.
Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman, eds (1993). Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.
Rodney, Walter (1972). How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
Said, Edward (1978). Orientalism.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2000). Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference.
Mbembe, Achille (2001). On the Postcolony / De la postcolonie: essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine.
Ang, Ien (2001). On Not Speaking Chinese: Living between Asia and the West.
Fanon, Frantz (1961). The Wretched of the Earth / Les damnés de la terre.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena (2017). The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives.
Hartman, Saidiya (1997). Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America.
Galeano, Eduardo (1971). Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent / Las venas abiertas de América Latina.
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
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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Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External