Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours. Seminar (8 x 1 hour) |
Lecture | 22 Hours. and Film Sessions (11 x 2 hour) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Case Study: 1 x 4,500 words | 70% |
Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 1,500 words | 20% |
Semester Assessment | Seminar Performance | 10% |
Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Teaching Programme Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
At the end of the module, students will be able to:
- show a critical understanding of issues raised by hunger, famine and genocide
- discuss these questions orally and in writing
- demonstrate knowledge of a number of cases of famine, hunger and genocide
- produce a critical analysis of a specific famine or genocide using concepts encountered in the module
Brief description
This module examines the international politics of mass starvations and genocides and looks at selected case studies in some detail
Aims
The module provides a critical introduction to debates surrounding famines, complex emergencies and genocides in international politics. It presents the argument that famine and hunger are not technical but political problems, bound up with conflict and oppression and similar in many ways to genocides. There is extensive use of video material, the aim being to provide students with a richness of detail which they can draw on to debate the politics of famine and genocide.
Content
Alongside the lectures there will be showings of documentaries which illustrate the case studies. Seminars will be student-led.
Transferable skills
10 ECTS credits
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6