Module POC2088 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2088: Understanding Israel and Palestine: One Land, Two People
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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:
- One Hundred Years of Violence.
- Conflicting Promises and Competing Nationalisms
- The Creation of Israel and Al-Naqba : Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Israel-Palestine and the Israel-Arab conflict
- Greater Israel and Life under Israeli occupation
- Israel's Security and Life under Terrorism
- Palestinian Society and Politics
- 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 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 & Teaching activities | 22 | 11x2 hour lecture and discussion facilitated by the convenor |
| Guided independent study | 33 | 3 hours of preparation for each seminar: reading, preparation in relation pre-seminar questions and tasks |
| Guided independent study | 10 | Preparation of research paper presentation |
| Guided independent study | 37 | Research and writing-up of portfolio assessment |
| Guided independent study | 48 | Research and writing-up of research project assessment |
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)
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.
Bishara, M. (2001) Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid. London and New York: Zed Books
Caplan, N. (2010) The Israel-Palestine Conflict. Contested Histories. Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Gerner, D., J. (1991) One Land, Two Peoples: The conflict over Palestine , Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press
Gelvin, J.L. (2007) The Israel-Palestine conflict: one hundred years of war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Milton-Edwards, B. (2009) The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People’s War. London: Routledge
Mahler. G. S. and Mahler, A., R. (2010) The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Document Reader. London: Routledge,
Peters, J. and Newman, D. (2013) Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. London and New York: Routledge
