Module Descriptors
ARCHAEOLOGIES OF GENOCIDE AND MASS VIOLENCE (F2F)
COFA70008
Key Facts
Health, Education, Policing and Sciences
Level 7
20 credits
Contact
Leader: William Mitchell
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 12
Independent Study Hours: 188
Total Learning Hours: 200
Pattern of Delivery
- Occurrence A, Stoke Campus, PG Semester 2
Sites
- Stoke Campus
Assessment
- Essay on a theme or site of your choice, exploring significant theoretical approaches to genocide investigation 6000 wor weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Learning Strategies
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Please list the module outcomes and match them with University Learning Outcomes.
Note: In writing your learning outcomes, please follow the rubric:
‘On completion of this module, you will be able to... ‘
Module Learning Outcome
University Learning Outcome
1. Understand the diverse landscapes and physical evidence connected to the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries
Knowledge and understanding, enquiry and analysis
2. Understand and critically reflect upon the role and contribution of archaeologists in the investigation of conflict and genocide worldwide
Knowledge and understanding, learning and analysis
3. Apply appropriate research skills and demonstrate communicative and evidencing skills [for individual assignments] appropriate to Masters level
Analysis, communication
Please list the module outcomes and match them with University Learning Outcomes.
Note: In writing your learning outcomes, please follow the rubric:
‘On completion of this module, you will be able to... ‘
Module Learning Outcome
University Learning Outcome
1. Understand the diverse landscapes and physical evidence connected to the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries
Knowledge and understanding, enquiry and analysis
2. Understand and critically reflect upon the role and contribution of archaeologists in the investigation of conflict and genocide worldwide
Knowledge and understanding, learning and analysis
3. Apply appropriate research skills and demonstrate communicative and evidencing skills [for individual assignments] appropriate to Masters level
Analysis, communication
Module Learning Strategies
ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT DETAILS
Please link Assessment to Learning Outcomes
This module will be assessed by
1) Essay on a theme or site of your choice, exploring significant theoretical approaches to genocide investigation [LO 1,2,3]
2) Engagement in discussion and online debates [LO 1,2,3]
Please link Assessment to Learning Outcomes
This module will be assessed by
1) Essay on a theme or site of your choice, exploring significant theoretical approaches to genocide investigation [LO 1,2,3]
2) Engagement in discussion and online debates [LO 1,2,3]
Module Learning Strategies
NDICATIVE CONTENT
This module focuses on the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries, identifying and examining the types of evidence that such acts leave behind. You will be tasked with thinking critically about how complex landscapes are formed and how they evolve due to the actions of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in a variety of contexts. The module will challenge you to analyse sites of genocide from many disciplinary perspectives and it will equip you with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to identify and interpret a wide range of physical evidence
Topics covered will include
Crimes Scenes, Memorials and Forgotten Landscapes
Cultural Genocide
Camps
Ghettos and Other Sites of Internment
Killing and Burial Sites
Work Sites
Sensory Landscapes of Conflict and Genocide
Destruction of Evidence: A Crime in Itself
Materialities of Resistance
Uses of the Material Culture of Genocide and Mass Violence
Materialities of Perpetratorship
Case studies will be drawn from a range of examples but will include: The Armenian Genocide, the Spanish Civil War, the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution, Soviet Terror and life under Communism as well as instances of genocide and mass violence in the Former Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Syria and Iraq.
This module focuses on the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries, identifying and examining the types of evidence that such acts leave behind. You will be tasked with thinking critically about how complex landscapes are formed and how they evolve due to the actions of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in a variety of contexts. The module will challenge you to analyse sites of genocide from many disciplinary perspectives and it will equip you with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to identify and interpret a wide range of physical evidence
Topics covered will include
Crimes Scenes, Memorials and Forgotten Landscapes
Cultural Genocide
Camps
Ghettos and Other Sites of Internment
Killing and Burial Sites
Work Sites
Sensory Landscapes of Conflict and Genocide
Destruction of Evidence: A Crime in Itself
Materialities of Resistance
Uses of the Material Culture of Genocide and Mass Violence
Materialities of Perpetratorship
Case studies will be drawn from a range of examples but will include: The Armenian Genocide, the Spanish Civil War, the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution, Soviet Terror and life under Communism as well as instances of genocide and mass violence in the Former Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Syria and Iraq.
Module Learning Strategies
WEB DESCRIPTOR
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Understand the past to build a better future. On this module, you will study the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries and learn to identify the types of evidence that such acts leave behind. You will be tasked with thinking critically about how complex landscapes are formed and how they evolve due to the actions of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in a variety of contexts. The module will challenge you to analyse sites of genocide from many disciplinary perspectives and it will equip you with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to identify and interpret a wide range of physical evidence.
Please see marketing’s quick guide for assistance
Understand the past to build a better future. On this module, you will study the wide range of acts of violence and genocide perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries and learn to identify the types of evidence that such acts leave behind. You will be tasked with thinking critically about how complex landscapes are formed and how they evolve due to the actions of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in a variety of contexts. The module will challenge you to analyse sites of genocide from many disciplinary perspectives and it will equip you with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to identify and interpret a wide range of physical evidence.
Module Learning Strategies
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Technology Enhanced Learning represents a core means of delivery. Technology forms an important element of both our teaching and research at the Centre of Archaeology. The online taught sessions will include a wide variety of media types and approaches. All teaching is done using a set of weekly readings and tasks on Blackboard; We use the available technologies to give DL students the opportunity to engage directly with staff and each other. The team’s approach to technology enhanced learning is to use it to close the distance between staff and students. Blackboard collaborate provides on-line meeting rooms where distance-learning students can meet with each other and with staff. It also supports the various webinars we run on the Masters Programme. Audio feedback both on discussion board posts and assignments is given by some members of staff, and this has proved a popular way of ensuring a stronger sense of direct personal contact with tutors. Microsoft Teams calls will frequently replace phone calls and this direct form of communication with students around the world is an invaluable way of making all students feel part of the University and its learning community. Social media will also play an important role in the delivery of the module. The Centre of Archaeology Facebook page, the Centre of Archaeology website, and several specific project web platforms all contain a huge volume of material that is highly relevant to the content of this course and they will represent important resources for information, debate, and engagement.
Tutors will provide supporting materials and formative and summative assessments to help you. Discussion and debate will be encouraged, and a number of different media types will be used throughout the course to allow you to engage with the subject matter. The self-directed study also makes up an important part of the module that will enable you to become a more independent learner and help prepare you for doctoral study or employment.
Technology Enhanced Learning represents a core means of delivery. Technology forms an important element of both our teaching and research at the Centre of Archaeology. The online taught sessions will include a wide variety of media types and approaches. All teaching is done using a set of weekly readings and tasks on Blackboard; We use the available technologies to give DL students the opportunity to engage directly with staff and each other. The team’s approach to technology enhanced learning is to use it to close the distance between staff and students. Blackboard collaborate provides on-line meeting rooms where distance-learning students can meet with each other and with staff. It also supports the various webinars we run on the Masters Programme. Audio feedback both on discussion board posts and assignments is given by some members of staff, and this has proved a popular way of ensuring a stronger sense of direct personal contact with tutors. Microsoft Teams calls will frequently replace phone calls and this direct form of communication with students around the world is an invaluable way of making all students feel part of the University and its learning community. Social media will also play an important role in the delivery of the module. The Centre of Archaeology Facebook page, the Centre of Archaeology website, and several specific project web platforms all contain a huge volume of material that is highly relevant to the content of this course and they will represent important resources for information, debate, and engagement.
Tutors will provide supporting materials and formative and summative assessments to help you. Discussion and debate will be encouraged, and a number of different media types will be used throughout the course to allow you to engage with the subject matter. The self-directed study also makes up an important part of the module that will enable you to become a more independent learner and help prepare you for doctoral study or employment.
Module Learning Strategies
REFERENCE TEXTS
Barone, Pier Matteo,¿Groen, W. J. Mike (Eds.) 2018 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Forensic Archaeology 2018 Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-030-06843-1
Sturdy Colls, C. 2015. Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions. New York: Springer, Chapters 3 and 4.
Anstett, E. and Dreyfus, J. 2015. Human remains and identification: mass violence, genocide, and the 'forensic turn'. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Anstett, E. and Dreyfus, J. 2017. Destruction and human remains: Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Bachman, Jeffery 2019 Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics and Global Manifestations (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Routledge. ISBN 978-0815380078
Barone, Pier Matteo,¿Groen, W. J. Mike (Eds.) 2018 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Forensic Archaeology 2018 Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-030-06843-1
Sturdy Colls, C. 2015. Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions. New York: Springer, Chapters 3 and 4.
Anstett, E. and Dreyfus, J. 2015. Human remains and identification: mass violence, genocide, and the 'forensic turn'. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Anstett, E. and Dreyfus, J. 2017. Destruction and human remains: Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Bachman, Jeffery 2019 Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics and Global Manifestations (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Routledge. ISBN 978-0815380078
Module Learning Strategies
RESOURCES
Supplied course packs of readings; ebooks and e-journals, relevant websites.
Blackboard VLE
Computer with internet access; students’ own textbooks
Supplied course packs of readings; ebooks and e-journals, relevant websites.
Blackboard VLE
Computer with internet access; students’ own textbooks