Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ARAM246: Critical Readings in Kurdish Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

The primary aim of this module is to acquaint you with core texts of Kurdish studies and to help you read them critically, developing research skills that allow you to investigate topics and readings that may be of use in constructing a viable dissertation and to develop key disciplinary skills that may contribute to the wider MA programme. This module may not be used for direct research on individual MA dissertation topics; however, it may be used to explore topics of wider interest for a dissertation. For example, you may wish to develop your knowledge of specific subjects, which are not fully explored elsewhere in the curriculum, or to read specific texts (such as literary texts) with critical discussion.

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. demonstrate an advanced knowledge of core texts in Kurdish studies and of the development of this field of study; 2. demonstrate an advanced and critical knowledge of the texts you have chosen to study.
Discipline-Specific Skills	3. demonstrate analytically how to contextualize the readings, theories and approaches within the wider field of Middle East and Islamic Studies; 4. undertake research effectively, construct a bibliography and ground one's research within the field of Kurdish Studies.
Personal and Key Skills	5. demonstrate understanding and analysis of research undertaken, in oral and written forms; 6. demonstrate the absorption, critical analysis of readings and approaches undertaken.

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.

Kreyenbroek, Philip and Stefan Sperl (eds.) (1992) The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview. London: Routledge.

Natali, Denise (2006) The Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Mojab, Shahrzad (ed) (2001) Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Press.

Scalbert-Yücel, C. and Le Ray, M. (2006) ‘Knowledge, ideology and power. Deconstructing Kurdish Studies’, European Journal of Turkish Studies online

Soane, E.B. (1918) To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in Disguise.

Stansfield, Gareth (2003) Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

Stansfield, Gareth and Shareef, Mohammed (eds) (2016) The Kurdish Question Revisited. London: Hurst.

Kreyenbroek, Philip and Stefan Sperl (eds.) (1992) The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview. London: Routledge.