Educational guide Faculty or Arts |
english |
Filologia Anglesa (01) |
Subjects |
CULTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES I |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2010_11 |
Subject | CULTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES I | Code | 12142023 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Theory credits | Practical credits | Type | Year | Period | ||
6 | 4.5 | 1.5 | Troncal | Fourth | First |
Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
1. The Commonwealth |
1.1.- Profile of the Commonwealth 1.2.- The Declaration of Commonwealth Principles. 1.3.- Individual countries of the Commonwealth 1.4.- British Imperialism 1.5.- Shared experiences of Commonwealth countries |
2. Africa | 2.1.- The importance of religion, symbols, and myths 2.2.- The Ibo culture 2.3.- The Biafran War 2.4.- Dispossession of the land in Kenya and the Mau Mau War 2.5.- The arrival of white settlers to South Africa: the Great Trek and the Boer War 2.6.- The History of Apartheid 2.7. Resistence to Apartheid: the Liberal Party, the ANC, the Inkatha movement. 2.8. Social unrest and post-Apartheid period |
3. India | 3.1.- Nationalism: the struggle towards independence 3.2.- The role of Gandhi 3.3.- The partition of India: Hindus and Muslims 3.4.- Hindu philosophy 3.5.- The caste system 3.6.- Current readjustments |
4. The Caribbean | 4.1.- The arrival of the Europeans 4.2.- The plantation system and the slave trade 4.3.- The indigenous peoples: the Arawaks, the Caribs, and the Garifuna 4.4.- The feudal structure 4.5.- The concept of family and the condition of caribbean women 4.6.- Political development |