Module ARA1038 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA1038: Religious Minorities of the Middle East
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
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 |
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Group presentation on the target audience for your specific project who are they and what are their needs? | 15 minutes | 6-8 | Verbal feedback from peers and teacher |
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 |
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90 | 0 | 10 |
...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 |
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Written essay | 45 | 2,000 words | 3-4, 7 | Full written (verbal on request) |
Project (including group presentation) | 45 | Group presentation (15 mins) and 1,500 words of briefing notes (including a reflexive methodology of 500 words), in addition to text (and where applicable, images) of Presentation. Presentation will be recorded. | 1-2, 5-6, 8 | Full written (verbal on request) |
Class participation | 10 | Attendance,participation in formative assessment, participation in group work (subject to any ILOs) | 1-2, 5 | Oral |
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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 |
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Essay | 2,000 words (45%) | 1-2, 4, 7 | August/September reassessment period |
Project | Essay 2,000 words (45%) | 3-4, 7 | August/September reassessment period |
Class participation | Mini-project (e.g.small PowerPoint or digital output) to be agreed with teacher (only applicable where ILO/medical certification supplied) | 1, 4, 7 | 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.
Buckley, J.J. The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People. Oxford: OUP, 20012.
The Great Stem of Souls: Reconstructing Mandaean History. Piscataway: Gorgias, 2006.
Courbage, Y. and P. Fargues. Christians and Jews under Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, 1998.
Dalrymple, W. From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East. New York: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated, 1999.
Drower, E.S. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran.
Ginkel, J. J. Van, and T. M. Van Lint. Redefining Christian Identity: Cultural Interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam. Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2006.
Griffith, S. H. The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
J. S. Guest, Survival Among the Kurds: A History of the Yezidis, 2d ed. London: Routledge, 1993.
Joseph, J. Muslim-Christian Relations and Intra-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East: The Case of the Jacobites in an Age of Transition. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.
Karabell, Z. Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence in the Middle East. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 2007.
Kreyenbroek, P. G. Yezidism—Its Background, Observances and Textual Tradition. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1995.
Pacini, A. Christian Communities in the Arab Middle East: The Challenge of the Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Rowe, P.S. Routledge Handbook of Middle Eastern Minorities. London: Routledge, 2019.
Waterfield, R. E. Christians in Persia. New York: Allen & Unwin, 1973.