Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Learning log + critical reflection 2000 Words | 50% |
| Semester Exam | Open exam answer 2000 Words | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Open exam answer 2000 Words | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Learning log 2000 Words | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of a body of historical knowledge relating to contemporary Colombia from the second half of the twenty century, to the post-2016 peace agreement period.
Distinguish and critically engage with the main schools of thought and trends in modern Colombian historiography.
Critically evaluate a wide range of relevant and diverse historical sources from multiple perspectives.
Assess their own learning through reflection and analysis through learning logs.
Critically review texts on Colombian history using the appropriate scholarly apparatus and supported by primary sources of evidence.
Brief description
The democratising intervention of the United States during the Cold War promoted the idea of development through an unfinished import substitution industrialisation. It also created a strong stigma against both illegal Marxist guerrillas and legal left-wing parties. This module takes alternative perspectives, ranging from the environmental to the multicultural, to examine decades of sports, media, conflict, peace-agreements and social resistance from the fall of Rojas Pinilla’s dictatorship and to the presentation of the Truth Commission’s reports.
Content
1. Introduction: A Nation in Spite of Itself… and Escobar
2. Kennedy and Lleras making democracy
3. A country of forests
4. The coca conflicts
5. Multicultural Colombia
6. Green extractivisms
7. Watching the Media
8. The armed conflict
9. Los cafeteros: Colombian sports history
10. There is a future if there is truth
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Co-ordinating with others | Students will be expected to play an active part in group activities (e.g. short group presentations in seminars) and to learn to evaluate their own contribution to such activities. |
| Creative Problem Solving | Students are expected to note and respond to historical problems which arise as part of the study of this subject area and to undertake suitable research for seminars and assignments. |
| Critical and analytical thinking | Students will develop their critical and analytical thinking by reading a range of texts and evaluating their usefulness in preparation for the coursework and the seminars. |
| Digital capability | Students will be encouraged to locate suitable material on the web and to apply it appropriately to their own work. Students will also be expected to word-process their work and make use of Blackboard. During this course the students will experiment with additional software such as Zotero and Pixton. These skills will not be formally assessed. |
| Professional communication | Written communication skills will be developed through the coursework; skills in oral presentation will be developed in seminars but are not formally assessed. |
| Real world sense | Students will develop a range of transferable skills, including time management and communication skills, which may help them identify their personal strengths as they consider potential career paths. |
| Reflection | Students will assess their own learning through reflection and analysis, using tools like learning logs. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will develop knowledge of the historical trajectory of a key case study in Latin American and the Caribbean republican history and the global modernity. Students will also develop ability to identify and assess primary sources, and apply critical approaches. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6