ATS3293 · Power, place and people: European legacies, global resistance, and transculturation

Overview

This unit examines cultural clashes and mutual influences between Europe and the World, and how European-language cultures across the globe have rejected, adopted, adapted, and transformed European cultural legacies.

Areas of study: European languages

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. critically examine the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world
2. assess the entangled legacies of European colonial interventions in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania
3. reflect on the influence and limitations of humanist ideas of universality and cosmopolitanism
4. discuss intellectual traditions in European languages beyond Europe (such as mestizaje, créolité, métissage, third spaces, magical realism, etc.)
5. identify and describe articulations of anticolonial resistance in European languages
6. incorporate transcultural literacy into critical thinking skills.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.