Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Decolonizing Europe: History and Memory
Course Number:
L_GCBAGES200
Course Description:
Course Objective The course Decolonizing Europe. History and Memory has both historical and methodological learning objectives. After the course, participants 1. understand the main approaches to the political history of the European nation-state and are able to situate leading historians in the historiographic debate on decolonization, postcolonialism and decoloniality; 2. understand how the course themes of decolonization and national histories in Europe play out in the institutional setting of museums and the construction of public and political discourse in present-day societies; and will be able to write a critical appraisal of museum exhibitions and collections and their role in European postcolonial society; 3. are able to critically review (in writing and speaking) a historical monograph, a work of fiction or a public/ political debate relevant to the course theme, and to develop an argued opinion about the issues at hand; 4. can reflect on their own ‘subject position’, and explore
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HIST 388
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