Border-Crossings: Comparative Cultures of Diaspora

ELAN60362 Border-Crossings: Comparative Cultures of Diaspora 15 Semester 2 Postgraduate Taught Level 4 Sebastian Truskolaski Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 This course is taught by a team of staff within Languages in the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, in different groupings depending on staff availability. It takes as its premise various key concepts relating to transnational identities such as diaspora, race, ethnicity, and the postcolonial, which are then studied in relation to specific texts/case studies. The aim is to illustrate the applicability of theoretical frameworks across cultural boundaries, and to illuminate the cultural specificity of each different history of migration. The course aims to illuminate core theoretical concerns of cultural migration studies and to encourage interdisciplinarity. Texts and case studies will be available in English where students do not have the relevant language skills.  This course is taught by a team of staff within Languages in the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, in different groupings depending on staff availability. It takes as its premise various key concepts relating to transnational identities such as diaspora, race, ethnicity, and the postcolonial, which are then studied in relation to specific texts/case studies. The aim is to illustrate the applicability of theoretical frameworks across cultural boundaries, and to illuminate the cultural specificity of each different history of migration. The course aims to illuminate core theoretical concerns of cultural migration studies and to encourage interdisciplinarity. Texts and case studies will be available in English where students do not have the relevant language skills.  <ul> <li>Provide students with the opportunity to acquire an advanced understanding of the cultural consequences of migration and the formation of diaspora communities.</li> <li>To provide a thorough grounding in current theoretical approaches to diaspora, postcolonial and globalisation studies, as applied to specific cultural contexts.</li> <li>Through reading, the use of web resources as a research tool, seminar discussion and the writing of essays, to make students fully conversant with the methods of scholarly research in a humanities discipline and the resources necessary for such research. </li></ul> Have acquired an advanced knowledge of selected aspects of the migrant or diaspora cultures of one of more communities covered on the course. Have developed an understanding of modern theoretical approaches to the advanced study of diaspora cultures. Have mastered the essential skills necessary to pursue independent research in literary and cultural studies in relation to cultures of diaspora. These include analysis, argument, independent thinking and effective oral and written self-expression. (NB for students proceeding to doctoral research, the relevant language skills must be acquired). Have demonstrated, through seminar discussion and the writing of an essay, their specialized knowledge of a chosen field, and their ability to analyse and evaluate material (including print and electronic resources) and to construct argument in an appropriately lucid, rigorous and scholarly manner. Other Intercultural awareness; Critical distance from one's own cultural context; Appreciation of complexity; Critical ability to understand particular contexts in terms of universal principles. <div><span class="TextRun SCXW195599489 BCX8 NormalTextRun" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif", "Microsoft Sans Serif_EmbeddedFont", "Microsoft Sans Serif_MSFontService", sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:none !important;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.55px;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Classes will consist of one 2-hour seminar per week. The first six (weekly) seminars will be led by the course convenor. Subsequent classes will be taught by other specialist tutors in a variety of post-colonial or diaspora cultures. Preparation for all seminars from week 2 will be the reading of prescribed texts and sometimes viewing of a video or film. Texts for discussion will be made available in electronic or photocopied form. The course convenor and other tutors will meet with students individually to discuss their essay topics.<span class="EOP SCXW195599489 BCX8" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;-webkit-user-drag:none;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif", "Microsoft Sans Serif_EmbeddedFont", "Microsoft Sans Serif_MSFontService", sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.55px;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;user-select:text;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;" data-ccp-props="{"335572071":4,"335572072":1,"335572073":0,"335572075":4,"335572076":6,"335572077":0,"335572079":4,"335572080":1,"335572081":0,"335572083":4,"335572084":4,"335572085":0,"469789798":"single","469789802":"single","469789806":"single","469789810":"single"}"> </div> 0 Other 100% Assessment task:Essay - 100% Resit assessment:Essay Feedback method:<ul> <li>Written feedback on Turnitin for essay</li> <li>Oral feedback on discussion in class</li></ul> Y Theoretical Frameworks  General: Alcoff, Linda, Alcoff, Martin & Mendiata, Eduardo (eds), Identities: Race, Class, Gender and Nationality, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003 Eriksen, J.H. Ethnicity and Nationalism, London: Pluto Press, 1993  Transnationalism/Globlisation Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities, London: Verso: 1991 Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio, Empire, Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000  Hybridity/Postcolonialism Bhabha, Homi K.  The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1994 Moore-Gilbert, Bart, Stanton, Gareth, & Maley, Willy (eds), Postcolonialist Criticism, London/NY: Longman, 1997  Diaspora Evans Braziel, Jana & Mannur, Anita (eds), Theorizing Diaspora, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003 Hall, Stuart & du Gay, Paul (eds), Questions of Cultural Identity, London: Sage, 1996  Cultural Memory/Trauma/Testimonial Caruth, Cathy (ed), Trauma: Explorations in Memory, Baltimore: publisher? 1995 Felman, Shoshana & Laub, Dori, Testimony. Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History, London: Routledge, 1992  The Politics of Language Edwards, J, Language, Society and Identity, London: Academic Press, 1984 Hoffmann, C. Language, Culture and Communication in Contemporary Europe, London: Multilingual Matters, 1996   Seminars 22 0 130