Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students should be able to:
1) Ability to process source materials and develop original arguments through focused case-studies. Students will also learn to categorise these studies under thematic groupings to build upon in their own original research
2) Critically engage with diverse primary and secondary sources, including unconventional sources under multidisciplinary methodologies
3) Gain experience focusing the skills of historians: such as how to research, synthesise readings and lecture content, meet deadlines, and present historical findings through written work and small group discussions
4) Write and research an analytical essay to the standards of a third level history student
5) Hone transferable skills such as critical engagement with materials, self-reflection, clear communication, speaking to a group, an assessment of tone, attention to authorial intent, and the shaping effect of audiences play
6) Explore detailed connections and collisions between settler societies, colonial rule and resistance movements on a global scale
7) Evaluate settler colonialism under political, economic, social, and cultural historical approaches. In addressing these topics, students are encouraged to reflect on diversity and inclusion and the continuing role of colonial legacies in contemporary terms
Indicative Module Content:
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Settler Colonialism and Settler Colonial Studies
Week 3: Economics and Exploitation
Week 4: Educating and Othering
Week 5: Settlers and Surveillance
Week 6: Settler Colonial Discipline and Punish(ment)
Week 7: Gender, Race, and Place
Week 8 Reading Week
Week 9: Ireland and Islands
Week 10: Environmental and Ecological Histories
Week 11: Resistance and (W)reckonings
Week 12: Final essay workshop