Module POC2103 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2103: Introduction to Postcolonialism
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 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:
- ‘White Man’s Burden’: Introduction to Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial approaches I
- ‘The Intimate Enemy’: Introduction to Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial approaches II
- Understanding Decoloniality: Introduction to Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial approaches III
- Sites of Postcolonial Encounters: Museums, Statues and Curriculums
- The Colonial Subjectivity: Race, Gender and Class I
- Mobility and Identity: Race, Gender and Class II
- ‘Writing Back’: The Subaltern Studies
- The Postcolonial Global Order: International Relations and Security Studies
- ‘Rule of Experts’: Postcolonial Approaches to Development
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 | 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 and Teaching Activities | 22 | 11x 2 hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 60 | Seminar preparation through directed reading |
| Guided Independent Study | 10 | To complete the formative essay plan |
| Guided independent study | 58 | To complete the mid-term essay, critical research paper and examination revision. |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 page plan of critical research paper | 1 page | 1-6 | Verbal/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 |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | 20 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-Term Essay | 30 | 1500 words | 1-6 | Written |
| Critical Research Paper | 50 | 1500 words | 1-6 | Written |
| Examination | 20 | 1 hour | 1-6 | Written |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-Term Essay | Mid-Term Essay (1500 words) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment period |
| Critical Research Paper | Critical Research Paper (1500 words) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment period |
| Examination | Examination (1 hour) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment 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.
Basic reading:
Dabashi, Hamid. The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism. Zed Books Limited
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The souls of black folk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press. 2004
Davis, Angela Y. Women, race, & class. London: Vintage, 2011.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Can the subaltern speak?" (1988).
Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism. (OUP India, 1989)
Mignolo, Walter. Local Histories / Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking. Princeton: University of Princeton Press, 2012.
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man's Burden” (1899). Poem.
Kothari, U. (2005). “Authority and Expertise: The Professionalization of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent”, Antipode, 37(3).
Escobar, A. (1999). “The Invention of Development”, Current History, 98(631): 382-386.
Escobar, A. (1997). “The Making and Unmaking of the Third World”. In: M. Rahnema, V. Bawtree, eds., The Post-Development Reader, London: Zed Books, pp. 85-93
