Module POC2088 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2088: Understanding Israel and Palestine: One Land, Two People
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Al Nakba
- Settler Colonialism
- Bio-Politics and Permanent State of Exception
- Politics and Geographies of Violence
- International Law and Palestine-Israel
- Security Culture
- Resistance
Global Palestine: Transnational Solidarity
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 130 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 20 | 10x2 hour lecture and discussion facilitated by the convenor |
| Guided independent study | 30 | 3 hours of preparation for each seminar |
| Guided independent study | 25 | Preparation of portfolio presentation |
| Guided independent study | 75 | Research and writing-up of portfolio assessment |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Web-based and electronic resources:
- ELE – College to provide hyperlink to appropriate pages
B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories-www.btselem.org/
Machsom Watch- https://machsomwatch.org/en
Grassroots Al-Quds- https://www.grassrootsalquds.net/
Aswat- https://www.aswatgroup.org/aswat
Other Learning Resources
Other resources:
My Neighbourhood (2012, Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi)
The Gatekeepers (2002, Dror Moreh)
Occupation 101 (2006, Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish,)
State 194 (2013,Dan Setton)
Paradise Now (2016, Hany Abu-Assad)
