Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC3088: Understanding Israel and Palestine: One Land, Two People

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 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:

  1. Introduction to the module: One Hundred Years of Violence.
  2. Conflicting Promises and Competing Nationalisms
  3. The Creation of Israel and Al-Naqba: Two Sides of the Same Coin
  4. Israel-Palestine and the Israel-Arab conflict
  5. Greater Israel and Life under Israeli occupation
  6. Israel's Security and Life under Terrorism
  7. Palestinian Society and Politics
  8. Israeli Society and Politics 

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching ActivitiesGuided independent studyPlacement / study abroad
221280

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

CategoryHours of study timeDescription
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities1111x1 hour lecture and discussion facilitated by the convenor
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities1111x1 hour seminars led by student presentations and discussion led by convenor
Guided independent study37Reading and preparing responses for seminar questions
Guided independent study36Research and preparation of student-led seminar
Guided independent study15Research and composition of Essay Plan
Guided independent study37Research and composition of essay
Guided independent study3Composition of peer reviews

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Amnesty International.  Israel and the Occupied Territories-www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/

B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories-www.btselem.org/

International Crisis Group-www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/israel-palestine

Israel Foreign Ministry-www. mfa.gov.il

Israel Democracy Institute- www.en.idi.org.il

Negotiations Affairs Department, Palestine Liberation Organisation- www.nad-plo.org

Other Learning Resources

The Gatekeepers (2002, Dror Moreh)

Occupation 101 (2006, Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish,)

State 194 (2013,Dan Setton, 2013)

Paradise Now (2016, Hany Abu-Assad)