{"id":10,"date":"2015-06-05T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2018-08-30T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:19:12","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#undergraduate\">Undergraduate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#masters\">Master&#8217;s in Imperial History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#doctoral\">M. Res. and PhD Students<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Undergraduate Teaching<\/h2>\n<p>Colonial and non-western history is always popular among undergraduate students here at\u00a0Kent, and the CHC offers a significant range of modules in the field from Stage 1 survey\u00a0courses through to final year Special Subjects. Teaching in this field gives students an\u00a0opportunity to learn about new places and approaches, different communities and power\u00a0structures, and the legacies of colonialism in the modern world. We are proud of the range of\u00a0teaching we offer, and the diversity of approaches reflected in our teaching team.\u00a0<strong>Global History of Empires I &amp; II (1500-1960)<\/strong> offer first-year students a significant\u00a0introduction to the field of European imperial history. These survey courses offer a varied\u00a0menu of colonial history, from the early modern context of Ottoman and Portuguese\u00a0exploration and expansion, through French, Belgian and British imperialism, to\u00a0decolonisation and the Cold War. These courses are a great jumping-off point for more in-depth teaching at Stages 2 &amp; 3, and have proved to be extremely popular among in-coming\u00a0stage one students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset<\/strong> is an introductory course on the history of the\u00a0British Empire. It seeks to explore a cultural history of modern British imperialism from\u00a0American independence through to decolonisation, and covers topics such as \u2018Identity and\u00a0Empire\u2019, \u2018Violence and Colonial Rule\u2019 and \u2018Discourses of Difference\u2019. The intention is to try\u00a0and understand European imperialism on its own terms, to interrogate the cultural and\u00a0conceptual discourses that underpinned its existence, and to reflect upon the many ways in\u00a0which the history of European empire has shaped the modern world in which we live today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>African History since 1800<\/strong> is a survey course taught by Giacomo Macola at both stage 2\u00a0and 3 levels which introduces students to the key processes and dynamics of sub-Saharan\u00a0African history during the past two centuries. In their study of the pre-colonial period,\u00a0students will familiarize themselves with the changing nature of African slavery and the\u00a0nineteenth-century reconstruction of political authority in the face of economic,\u00a0environmental and military pressures. The colonial period forms the second section of the\u00a0course. Here, students will gain an understanding of the modalities of the colonial conquest,\u00a0the creation and operation of colonial economies and the socio-cultural engineering brought\u00a0about by European rule. The study of the colonial period will end with an analysis of African\u00a0nationalisms and decolonisation. In the final part of the course, students will get to grips with\u00a0the numerous challenges faced by independent African nations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/steinhardt.nyu.edu\/scmsAdmin\/media\/users\/arg482\/Repatriation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"343\" \/><em>The Repatriation of the Freed Captives. The third panel from &#8216;Rising Up&#8217; &#8211; Hale Woodruff&#8217;s Murals at Talladega College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Africa and Africans in the Atlantic world<\/strong> gives students an insight into Atlantic history\u00a0through the biographies and life stories of Africans who explored, traded, travelled and lived\u00a0around the Atlantic in the 19th century. The course highlights the role of Africans in creating\u00a0the Atlantic world, and uncovers unusual and exciting cross-oceanic networks and\u00a0connections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empires of Religion? Thinking with missionaries in the age of empire, 1790-1914.<\/strong> This\u00a0final-year special subject explores the role of the evangelical missionary movement in the\u00a0history of British colonialism. Its essential question is whether missionaries were implicit\u00a0an\/or explicit agents of empire, and as such interacts with issues of how we define\u00a0imperialism, how useful the idea of cultural imperialism can be to the modern historian, and\u00a0how we might talk meaningfully about &#8216;the colonising project&#8217;. Students use in-depth analysis\u00a0of an extensive range of primary sources to critically interrogate the socio-economic, cultural\u00a0and religious impact of Christian mission in the &#8216;age of expansion&#8217;, in order to assess their\u00a0impact and legacy in the modern word.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members at the CHC also supervise numerous undergraduate dissertations in the field of imperial and non-western history, and offer a Dissertation Prize to outstanding work in this field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>MA in Imperial and Colonial history<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-195 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/12\/Screenshot-2015-12-09-17.15.00-300x252.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-12-09 17.15.00\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/12\/Screenshot-2015-12-09-17.15.00-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/12\/Screenshot-2015-12-09-17.15.00.png 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to announce the launch of a new Master&#8217;s programme in Imperial History here at the university of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>This brand new programme examines key themes and regions in the making of world history from the 18th century to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial history is a rapidly growing and innovative field of historical research, which offers you the opportunity to explore the origins, workings and legacies of empires. By critically engaging with a range of theoretical and empirical literatures, as well as conducting original research, you use historical data to tackle momentous questions relating to violence, development and global inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Led by five specialists in the School of History, the programme takes a broad interdisciplinary approach which also encompasses renowned academics from other departments. The team offers particular expertise in African political history, the history of military technology and conflict, global histories of religion and the newly-emerging field of children and childhoods. You also have the opportunity to participate in the activities of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/centres\/colonialisms\/index.html\">Centre for the History of Colonialisms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This programme offers an ideal launching pad for students who envisage careers with an international dimension or plan to embark on doctoral work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>MA Res &amp; PhD Students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Centre has numerous Masters by Research and PhD students who contribute to\u00a0our research community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Cocking<\/strong> started his PhD on higher education in colonial and postcolonial\u00a0Malaya in January 2015. He is interested in exploring the role of colonialism in the\u00a0evolution of higher education in modern-day Malaysia, and seeks to use higher\u00a0education as a lens through which to explore the transition from colonial state to\u00a0postcolonial nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Vincent<\/strong> is currently completing a master\u2019s dissertation on the relationships between Congo Free State agents and Nsapu-Nsapu militias in the Kasai in the late 1890s and early 1900s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Nicholls<\/strong> \u2013 the holder of an AHRC\/CHASE scholarship \u2013 has recently begun a PhD on the role of the Seychelles in the slave trade of the Western Indian Ocean between the eighteenth and the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Kegel &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>AHRC\/CHASE grant-holder\u00a0whose PhD research focuses on the Rwandan civil war of the early 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate Master&#8217;s in Imperial History M. 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