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At the end of the module, students should be able to:
- Understand the history of the idea of the 'Middle East'.
- Critique the way in which it is deployed to interpret life in the Arabophone, Turcophone and Persiophone lands south and east of the Mediterranean.
- Understand how ideas about ‘Middle Eastern’ societies shaped the institutions that were designed to govern them.
- Understand how activists and thinkers from the region engaged, critiqued and refuted such ideas as they attempted to emancipate themselves from colonial and postcolonial despots, imagining as they did alternative futures.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 11 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 11 |
Specified Learning Activities | 45 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 45 |
Total | 112 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: 1,500 word mid-semester essay plan | Week 5 | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Essay: End of semester essay of up to 2,500 words | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Continuous Assessment: Student participation and contribution in weekly seminars | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 10 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Feedback given on the essay plan will be given individually. This should be used to complete the final essay assignment.