Module HIST40730: Racial Dynamics and Identity in North America Since 1619, I

Department: History

HIST40730: Racial Dynamics and Identity in North America Since 1619, I

Tied To

• V1K207: Modern History

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• The module aims to enable students to engage on high level of sophistication with contemporary historical concepts and interpretations relating to a significant area of North American history, in support of the intended learning outcomes of the MA in Modern History.

Content

• Slavery and race
• Whiteness and other forms of colour consciousness
• Race and gender
• Race and labour
• Race and consumption
• Racial violence
• Race and the law

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module the student will have gained a detailed knowledge of important aspects of the history and significant of race in the North American colonies and United States. The student will have developed the capacity to evaluate critically both a wide range of types of contempoprary historical data and the writings of modern scholars relating to the interaction of race with other key historical themes, which include migration, industrialisation, politics and ideology.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Appropriate specialised areas for focus are identified in discussion between the module leader and individual students in weekly tutorials. These are also the means by which the module leader directs and monitors the on-going, directed reading of each student. In addition , they provide the framework within which each student plans, researches and writes, under the module leader's supervision, an extended essay, making use both of original sources and of the fruits of modern scholarship.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Module leader reads and comments on preliminary draft of student's 5000-word essay.