This module introduces students to a range of questions and issues surrounding culture, identity and memory and develops student understanding of the formation and mediation of cultural identity and memory. The aims of this module are as follows:
- To introduce students to a more comprehensive and critical understanding of the complexity of culture and identity.
- To develop student understanding of cultural and collective memory and to engage students in exploration of how cultural and social memories are formed, mediated and marginalised and communicated in heritage sites and ‘sites of memory’
- Cultural identity – construction of individual & collective (national) identity
- Identity & difference; Identity & globalisation; Identity & language; Identity & representation
- ‘Social’ remembering and forgetting – collective memory & historical consciousness
- Agents and mediators of collective memory: Media, Historiography, Education, Government
- Case studies +/or literary texts – identity conflicts
Culture, identity, memory - Topics & Themes
Cultural identity – construction of individual & collective (national) identityIdentity & difference; Identity & globalisation; Identity & language; Identity & representation‘Social’ remembering and forgetting – collective memory & historical consciousness
Interactive lectures & seminars, lecturer-led and self-directed and experiential learning, class-room discussion, use of multimedia & a variety of texts, student (individual and group) project work and presentation
| Module Content & Assessment | |
|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Formal Examination | 50 |
| Other Assessment(s) | 50 |