| Unit name | Black Humanities II |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MODLM0044 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Albertine Fox |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | School of Modern Languages |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Based on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and contemporary practice, this unit offers students foundational tools for learning about the intellectual and artistic production of people of African descent around the world. The unit is structured through our focus on three locations and the connections between them: Africa, Caribbean and the Americas, Black Britain. In connection to their reading, students will meet with arts practitioners and activists in order to reflect on their learning and consider how the arts and humanities can generate changes and forms of solidarity in today’s society. Topics to be discussed include: anti-colonial and decolonial thought, migration, mobility, diaspora, memory and language. The unit will introduce students to key texts as well as to influential methodological approaches across the disciplines (literature, history, philosophy, art history, film, music).
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Identify and analyse key ideas in the study of the intellectual and artistic production of people of African descent, including decolonial thought, migration and mobility, diaspora.
2. Reflect on the connections between theory and practice.
3. Discuss and evaluate the debates that surround different and varied notions of blackness within the arts and humanities.
4. Work with primary sources and select pertinent evidence in order to illustrate/demonstrate specific and more general points.
5. Present research and judgements in written forms and styles appropriate to the discipline and to M Level.
Journals (40%)
Essay (60%)
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If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. MODLM0044).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
