Module POC3088 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3088: 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:
- Introduction to the module: 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 | 11 | 11x1 hour lecture and discussion facilitated by the convenor |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 11 | 11x1 hour seminars led by student presentations and discussion led by convenor |
| Guided independent study | 37 | Reading and preparing responses for seminar questions |
| Guided independent study | 36 | Research and preparation of student-led seminar |
| Guided independent study | 15 | Research and composition of Essay Plan |
| Guided independent study | 37 | Research and composition of essay |
| Guided independent study | 3 | Composition 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)
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
David, S. (2009) ‘Existential Threat to Israel’ in Freedman Robert O. (ed.) Contemporary Middle East. Boulder CO: Westview Press. Chapter 13
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
Kamrava, M. (2011)The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War. London: California University Press Ltd. Chapter 9
Milton-Edwards, B. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People’s War (London: Routledge, 2009)
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
