Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 7 Hours. Seminar (7 x 1 hour) |
Lecture | 20 Hours. Lectures and Film Sessions (10 x 2 hour) |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Exam | 2 Hours 1 x 2 hour 'open book' exam | 65% |
Semester Assessment | 1 x 1,500 word essay | 25% |
Semester Assessment | Seminar Performance | 10% |
Supplementary Exam | Students failing the module will repeat only the failed component(s); those re-sitting failed coursework are required to select a different essay/assignment title and must not submit re-written versions of the original essay/assignment. |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- show a critical understanding of issues raised by famine and genocide
- discuss these questions orally and in writing
- demonstrate knowledge of a number of cases of famine and genocide
- respond to questions relating to two specific famines or genocides 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