Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM221: The Palestine Question: Past and Present

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Aims

This module aims to introduce you to one of the most important issue in the politics of the region and in the world at large. In doing so, it aims to enable you to understand the ways in which the scholarly debate on this issue has developed and how the production of academic knowledge can improve understandings of the origins of the conflict in Israel and Palestine and the possible scenarios about its future.

It will also introduce you to the intriguing world of power and knowledge. You will acquaint yourself with recent theoretical and conceptual insights into this question.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Critically understand the nature and importance of the scholarly research on topical issues at the top of the international agenda. 2. Reflect critically on the scholarly research on the Palestine Question
Discipline-Specific Skills	3. Analyse and identify the role of narratives in scholarly studies of the Middle East 4. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the interdisciplinary methods upon which Area Studies and Middle East Studies are based; 5. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of a scholarly treatment of a topical issue such as the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Personal and Key Skills	6. Demonstrate close reading, critical and analytical skills through readings, class discussions and presentations 7. Organise data effectively to produce a coherent argument to a deadline, both orally and in writing.

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Submission of a detailed essay plan	1000 words	1-6	Written

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Essay 1	45	4,000 words	1-7	Oral and Written
Essay 2	35	2,500 words	1-7	Oral and Written
Book review	20	1,500 words	1-7	Oral and written
	0

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Essay 1	Essay (4,000 words)	1-7	August/September re-assessment period
Essay 2	Essay (2,500 words)	1-7	August/September re-assessment period
Book review	Book review (1,500 words)	1-7	August/September re-assessment period

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Ilan Pappe, A History of Modern Palestine; One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2 ^ndedition 2010)

Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oxford and New York: Oneworld Publications, 2007

Ilan Pappe, the Forgotten Palestinians; A History of the Palestinian Minority in Israel, London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)

Ilan Pappe, The Israel/Palestine Question, London and New York: third edition, Routledge, 2012.

Beshara Doumani, Palestine Rediscovered; Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: the Construction of Modern National Consciousness, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Edward Said, The Question of Palestine, London: Vintage 1992.

Anita Shapira,Israel: a History, Brandies: Brandies University Press, 2014.

Sholom Avineri, the Making of Modern Zionism, New York: Basic Books, 1981