| CODE | ATS5501 | ||||||
| TITLE | Thinking 'the Mediterranean' | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Arts | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Thinking the Mediterranean is a study-unit designed to discuss the notion of the Mediterranean as a single unity from multi-disciplinary perspectives, with the participation of experts from different fields of learning. At the end of the study-unit the student should be able to offer an answer to the question, what is the Mediterranean? Apart from stimulating students to ‘think’ about the Mediterranean, the study-unit, as a bedrock of the M.A. programme, also aims to give students an opportunity to sample various disciplinary approaches and inform their choice of elective study-units. Fourteen seminar sessions will be held, as follows: • Introduction: The Mediterranean as a region • The Mediterranean tradition at the University of Malta and beyond • Archaeology and the Mediterranean • The Mediterranean in Classical Times • Mediterranean religions • Historical unity and fragmentation I • Historical unity and fragmentation II • The Anthropologist’s Mediterranean • The Geographer’s Mediterranean • The Mediterranean Diet • Mediterranean diseases • Writing the Mediterranean • Representing the Mediterranean • The Mediterranean in International Relations Study-unit Aims: • To give students a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the Mediterranean within the same study-unit, in what is essentially a multi-disciplinary programme of studies; • To stimulate discussion and cross-fertilization of ideas and enable students to make their own synthesis of what defines the Mediterranean; • To help students make decisions about which electives to choose from during the rest of the programme. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to • understand the relevance of the ‘Mediterranean idea’; • gain insights into a variety of disciplines to which s/he may not have been exposed before; • locate the place of the Mediterranean in the wider world; • grasp the complexity of the characteristics that give the Mediterranean its unity and diversity. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • adopt multi-disciplinary approaches to their studies; • organize, synthesise and observe patterns from apparently scattered knowledge; • draw on the knowledge acquired in their studies in any competitive examinations or interviews which require awareness of the world around them. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: David Abulafia, The Great Sea: a Human History of the Mediterranean, (Allen Lane, 2011) Sarah Arenson, The Encircled Sea: the Mediterranean Maritime Civilization (Caroline Academic 1991); as well as accompanying DVDs of Channel 4 television series by the same name Miriam Cooke, Erdag Göknar, Grant Parker, Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida (North Carolina Press, 2008) A.T. Grove and Oliver Rackham, The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History (Yale University Press, 2003) Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea. A Study of Mediterranean History (Blackwell Mass, 2000) Eric Newby, On the Shores of the Mediterranean (Harper, 2011 edition) Faysal Yachir, The Mediterranean: Between Autonomy and Dependency (Zed Books,1989) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Anthony Bonanno Joseph M. Cacciottolo Stephen Calleya Ivan Callus Charles Dalli Dominic Fenech (Co-ord.) Anna McElhatton Dennis Mizzi Paul Sant Cassia John A. Schembri Keith Paul Sciberras Nicholas Vella |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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