University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 9

Semester: 1

Availability restrictions: The School operates a ballot system

Planned timetable: Lecture: Tues 1pm

Colonialism and imperialism were among the most important and defining processes of the last few centuries. Western imperialism remade both ‘East’ and ‘West’, and it served to create the ‘modernity’ which we now all inhabit. This course examines some of ways in which the non-Western world confronted the violence and inequality of colonialism. Focusing on specific thinkers and themes, it engages with the political thought of significant intellectuals and political leaders (including M.K. Gandhi, Nehru, and Fanon), and examines differing forms of anti-colonial politics, including nationalism, socialism, Negritude and Pan-Africanism.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass IR2006

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 1 lecture x10 weeks 1 tutorial x 10 weeks

Scheduled learning hours: 20

Guided independent study hours: 275

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 60% Exam = 40%


Re-assessment: Exam = 100%

Personnel

Module coordinator: Professor S Seth
Module teaching staff: Prof Sanjay Seth
Module coordinator email ss544@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

• provide a broad understanding of the intellectual and cultural effects of colonialism on colonizer and colonized
• explain and account for the differing forms of resistance generated by imperialism
• Explain and evaluate historical and contemporary critiques of colonial domination
• Identify and account for the afterlives of historical processes such as colonialism and imperialism in the politics of the present
• place the phenomenon of anticolonial nationalism in its historical context