| Unit name | Culture and Conflict: Theoretical Approaches |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MODLM2043 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Hurcombe |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | School of Modern Languages |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit introduces students to a range of recent and relevant critical approaches to conflict and its representation in a range of cultural products. Such approaches will provide the necessary analytical keys for reading the many forms of conflict addressed in the subject specific option units within the War and Culture pathway of the MA Modern Languages, but will also be of relevance to students in other pathways of this and other MA programmes. The theoretical approaches studied will include explorations of how language (visual and verbal), aesthetics, and ideology (e.g. nationalism, Fascism and Communism), colonialism, globalisation and memory impact on our understanding of cultural representations of conflict. These different theoretical approaches will be brought to bear on a range of cultural products addressing different forms of conflict, to include holocaust, terrorism and international warfare.
