Postgraduate Course: Themes in African Social History (PGHC11272)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (School of History and Classics) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course aims to introduce students to a series of themes in the area of African social history and to engage them in current debates. The broad themes that have been chosen are those which can most easily be tracked over the course of the past two centuries, the intention being to examine both continuity and change in social structures and African modes of thought alike. To take one example, whereas colonialism has traditionally been seen as a dramatic rupture, current research is making more apparent the ways in which colonial states borrowed from the repertoire of nineteenth century state systems. The case-studies will be drawn selectively from the Horn, East Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
This course aims to:
-enhance student understanding of important themes in social history
-broaden student understanding of alternative ?world views? beyond those which they might otherwise encounter
-enhance student knowledge of competing historiographical viewpoints
-enhance student historical and transferable verbal skills in a team work situation, through the preparation and presentation of seminar papers, and collective engagement in informed discussion and debate of seminar topics
-enhance writing skills through the preparation and submission of essays exhibiting empirical rigour, theoretical and analytical skills and narrative and literary skills.
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Assessment Information
| Students are required to write one essay of approximately 4000 words |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Francesca Locatelli
Tel: (0131 6)50 3756
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Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
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