Themes in African Social History (P02479)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-ASH

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

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

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.