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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
History
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Moshe Sluhovsky
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 13:00-14:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Moshe Sluhovsky
Course/Module description:
Colonial encounters between European navigators, conquerors, and settlers shaped the history of both Europe and the rest of the world at the same time that they shaped Europe itself. The purpose of this seminar is to encounter some of these points of contact between civilizations. Starting with Christopher Columbus’s voyage, the encounter gave shape to ideological, theological, commercial, racial, and gendered perceptions of other peoples and other cultures. We will read and analyze some of the major representations of colonial encounters in Western and non-Western literature.
Course/Module aims:
comprehension of the processes of colonialization and post-colonialization and the relations between economic, cultural and ideological proecessesץ Introduction to feminist, post-colonial, and queer-theory reading methods.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
to understand better the history of the global history of the last 500 years and learn to read texts in more sophisticated manners
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
weekly discussions in class, students are responsible for conducting the discussions
Course/Module Content:
Columbus and the Spanish expansion; early modern critiques of colonialism; Shakespeare; Enlightenment and Colonialism; Orientalism; women and the orient; sexuality and colonialism; homoeroticism and orientalism; post-colonial theory
Required Reading:
see Hebrew
Additional Reading Material:
none
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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