CULT H2029 - Genocide, Social Darwinism and Racial Science

Module Details

Module Code: CULT H2029
Full Title: Genocide, Social Darwinism and Racial Science
Valid From:: Semester 1 - 2019/20 ( June 2019 )
Language of Instruction:English
Duration: 1 Semester
Credits:: 5
Module Owner:: Kevin Howard
Departments: Unknown
Module Description: The aim of this module is to provide students with the conceptual and historical knowledge to critically assess claims made about group characteristics, and the policies of exclusion and extermination that can follow.
 
Module Learning Outcome
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Module Learning Outcome Description
MLO1 Explain the emergence during the Enlightenment of racial categorisation
MLO2 Assess the inter-relationship between human sciences and social engineering
MLO3 Examine and analyse the consequences of delineating democracies along ethnic lines
MLO4 Evaluate contemporary claims about racial differences that claim scientific objectivity
MLO5 Compare and assess contemporary debates about selected reproduction with earlier eugenicist discourse
Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named DkIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
No recommendations listed
 
Module Indicative Content
The ‘problem’ of difference
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The emergence of the concept of ‘Race’
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The Survival of the Fittest and the Eugenic Consciousness
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Racial Science and involuntary sterilisation
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The Nazi’s Final Solution, and the ‘Banality of Evil’
n/a
The UN Convention on Genocide and post-war Human Rights
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The persistence of genocide and the case for Lethal Intervention
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Module Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Course Work60.00%
Project40.00%
Module Special Regulation
 

Assessments

Full-time

Course Work
Assessment Type Reflective Journal % of Total Mark 60
Marks Out Of 100 Pass Mark 40
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 2,3,4,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students present a reflective assessment of the application of Stanton's framework to a self-selected example of Genocide; approx. 2000 words
Project
Assessment Type Project % of Total Mark 40
Marks Out Of 100 Pass Mark 40
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 1,2,3,4,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students produce a podcast of a self-selected example discourses of ethnic/racial differences and hierarchies influence political projects.
No Practical
No Final Examination

Part-time

Course Work
Assessment Type Reflective Journal % of Total Mark 60
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 40
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 2,3,4,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students present a reflective assessment of the application of Stanton's framework to a self-selected example of Genocide; approx. 2000 words
Project
Assessment Type Project % of Total Mark 40
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 1,2,3,4,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students produce a podcast of a self-selected example discourses of ethnic/racial differences and hierarchies influence political projects.
No Practical
No Final Examination

DKIT reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full-time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Tutorial Contact No Description Every Week 1.00 1
Directed Reading Non Contact No Description Every Week 3.00 3
Independent Study Non Contact No Description Every Week 3.00 3
Total Weekly Learner Workload 9.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 3.00
Workload: Part-time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Directed Reading Non Contact No Description Every Week 4.00 4
Independent Study Non Contact No Description Every Week 3.00 3
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Total Weekly Learner Workload 9.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 2.00
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Browning, Christopher. (2017), Ordinary Men, Rev. Harper Collins, New York, p.352, [ISBN: 0062303023].
  • Kiernan, Ben. (2009), Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p.768, [ISBN: 978-0300144253].
  • Levine, P. (2017), Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.168, [ISBN: 9780199385904].
Supplementary Book Resources
  • Gould, Stephen, J. (1996), The Mismeasure of Man, 2nd. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, p.448, [ISBN: 978-0393314250].
  • Hawkins, Mike. (2003), Social Darwinism in European and American Thought 1860-1945, 2nd. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p.356, [ISBN: 978-0521574341].
  • Arendt, Hannah. (2008), Eichmann and the Holocaust, Penguin: Great Ideas, London, p.144, [ISBN: 978-0143037606].
This module does not have any article/paper resources
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