Module POC2093 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2093: Understanding Israel and Palestine: Seeking Peace
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Illustrative seminar topics:
- Introduction to the Module: The never-ending conflict?
- The Road to Oslo
- The Oslo Peace Process: What went wrong?
- The Stumbling Blocks: Territory, Settlements, and Water
- The Stumbling Blocks: Jerusalem and Refugees
- Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbours: the ‘Separation Wall’
- Palestinian Violence
- Israel and Palestine (un)divided: Internal Conflicts and Prospects for Peace
- External Actors
- 'The Penryn Peace Process'-the UN-sponsored conference: Simulation exercise
- Conclusion: Is the end in Sight?
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | Lectures and discussion facilitated by the convenor |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | Seminars guided by questions and readings assigned by the convenor |
| Guided independent study | 35 | Reading and preparing for seminars |
| Guided independent study | 11 | Research and preparation of student-led seminar |
| Guided independent study | 22 | Researching and preparation for simulation assessment |
| Guided independent study | 10 | Composition of report on simulation exercise |
| Guided independent study | 15 | Reading and Preparing for examination practice |
| Guided independent study | 35 | Reading and Preparing for Unseen examination |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Israel Foreign Ministry- www. mfa.gov.il
Negotiations Affairs Department, Palestine Liberation Organisation- www.nad-plo.org
Foundation for the Middle East Peace- www.fmep.org
Other Learning Resources
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004,Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff, 2004)
Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East (2003, Wayne Kopping)
