Slavery in the Modern World: a Comparative Study (P01450)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCL-P-SlModWdCS

This module examines, with a view to comparative study, slavery in the antebellum American South, slavery and other forms of unfree labour in Nazi-occupied Europe, and serfdom in late-imperial Russia. (Students will also have the opportunity, should they desire it, to examine slave labour in the Soviet GULag.) Beyond consideration of the individual case studies, it examines the comparative literature both on slavery as a political-economic system and the slave cultural and psychological experience within that system. Similarities and differences between case studies and over time will be considered.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History and Classics, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 50 minutes per week for 9 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

This course seeks to develop:

- a critical understanding of key debates in the history of individual case studies of slavery in the modern world and in the comparative scholarship.
- an awareness of and ability to interpret the primary and secondary sources used by historians in this field.
- critical appreciation of the approaches of interdisciplinary history
- modes of thought across time and space
- an ability to prepare and present work for seminars and to participate actively in group discussion.
- an ability to engage in depth appropriate to the writing of a Masters' dissertation with a specific issue in this area, incorporating appropriate literary, data-analytical and bibliographical skills