This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
Migration, whether forced or voluntary, has been a key feature of life throughout history and continues to be so in the present day. This module investigates the topics of migration and displacement in the ancient world, exploring it in relation to phenomena such as war, violence, trauma, captivity, slavery, trade, diversity, multiculturalism, race, ethnicity, and imperialism. Rather than focusing on kings and battlefield, this module takes the perspective of individuals and lived experience. The module will also explore how studying the ancient past can enhance our understanding of present-day issues and empower to students to make meaningful contributions to modern debates.
Private Study: 130 hours
Contact Hours: 20 hours
Total: 150 hours
Main assessment methods
• Analysis of evidence (800 words or equivalent) – 20%
• Project proposal (800 words) – 30%
• Final project (1,500 words or equivalent) – 50%
Reassessment methods
• coursework (3,500 words) – 100%
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The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate a historically contextualised understanding of migration, slavery, ethnicity, race, identity, and closely connected phenomena;
2 Demonstrate critical understanding of the historical interpretations of the evidence, and how these shape the conceptual frameworks we use to understand and discuss these phenomena across history;
3 Demonstrate critical understanding of the importance of using different types of evidence traditionally studied by different disciplines, such as textual evidence and archaeological remains;
4 Use established techniques in historiography, textual analysis, archaeology, and art history to examine the migration, slavery, race, ethnicity, and related concepts and phenomena;
5 Construct effective historical arguments, orally and in writing, which demonstrate analytical ability, independence of thought and knowledge of the ancient sources, literary and otherwise.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis;
2 Effectively communicate information, arguments, and analysis, in a variety of forms, to specialist and non-specialist audiences, and deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively;
3 Identify and make use of opportunities for further training, developing existing skills, and acquiring new competences that will enable them to assume positions of significant responsibility.
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