Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE NES3022

 
TITLE Synoptic Study-Unit 2: The Modern and Contemporary Middle East

 
UM LEVEL 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 6

 
ECTS CREDITS 6

 
DEPARTMENT Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures

 
DESCRIPTION This study-unit will examine students in a synoptic manner. Students have to demonstrate an ability to integrate their knowledge and understanding of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern history, politics, literature, and culture, drawing upon the subject matter covered in different study-units throughout the course of the degree. Students will prepare for this study-unit through personal study and tutorial sessions with the respective tutors.

Study-unit Aims:

1. To integrate the knowledge and understanding acquired in the study-units pertaining to the modern and contemporary Middle East;
2. To train students to develop an interdisciplinary sensibility and integrate historical, literary, and cultural approaches to the study of the modern and contemporary Middle East;
3. To train students to adopt a synoptic approach and create thematic links between different fields of specialization.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

1. demonstrate a critical and holistic understanding of the history, literature, and culture of particular regions in the Middle East;
2. appraise and debate major themes relevant to these respective fields of specialization;
3. analyze and interpret pertinent primary and secondary sources, and evaluate competing interpretations of the data;
4. formulate historical, cultural, and linguistic syntheses on the basis of these sources.

2. Skills
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

1. develop an interdisciplinary sensibility;
2. synthesize and evaluate disparate, but related, sets of data;
3. demonstrate a high level of critical thinking.

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Synoptic Study-Unit

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Examination (3 Hours) SEM2 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S

 

 
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