MO4971
From City to Home: Spatial Histories of Modern East and Southeast Asia
2023-2024
60
30
SCQF level 10
Full Year
Academic year(s): 2023-2024
SCOTCAT credits : 60
ECTS credits : 30
Level : SCQF level 10
Semester: Full Year
Availability restrictions: Available only to students in the Second Year of the Honours Programme.
Planned timetable:
This module explores the spatial histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century East and South East Asia from the scale of the urban to the domestic. Students will study the history of Asian cities in colonial, semi-colonial, and early post-colonial contexts. Using travel accounts, newspapers, colonial records, police archives, literature, maps, and other images, students will use primary sources to analyse historical change in the spaces of everyday life such as the home, parks, transportation networks, department stores, and teahouses.
Weekly contact: 1 x 3-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour.
Scheduled learning hours: 66
Guided independent study hours: 534
As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%
As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 0%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 100%
Re-assessment: New Coursework: 1 x source exercise (2,500 words) and 1 x 5,000-word essay = 100%
Module coordinator: Dr K M Lawson
Module teaching staff: Dr K Lawson