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Birkbeck, University of London
Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity PG Dip
Birkbeck, University of London

Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity PG Dip

BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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Full time | Bloomsbury (Central London) Campus | 1 year | SEP

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Full time

Duration

1 year

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SEP

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Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

Cultural Studies Diaspora Studies

Course Summary

This innovative, interdisciplinary culture, diaspora, ethnicity course stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities. It offers you the opportunity to explore:histories and cartographies of 'race' and racism, multiculture and postcoloniality empire and the formation of modern Britain and contemporary transnational political communities, social identities and urban culturesconnections between histories of colonisation and contemporary social formations and inequalities in the UKhow local debates on 'race' and racism are shaped by the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century.Start Date: October 2024Duration: One year

Modules

'Race', Racism, Postcoloniality (30 Credits) - Core
This interdisciplinary module stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities. It is framed by contemporary debates on empire and the formation of modern Britain, new authoritarian populisms and the resurgence of anti-racist political cultures across Europe and the US. The module discusses the connections between histories of colonisation and contemporary social formations and inequalities in the UK, and considers how local debates on 'race' and racism are shaped by the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century. It explores modern histories of colonisation, systems of slavery, indenture and other forms of colonial labour, modern concepts of 'race' and the invention of 'the West'. It then turns to debates on 'race', the ?human sciences? and 'the age of Enlightenment' before discussing colonial cultures, class, 'respectability' and the invention of 'whiteness' and coloniality, genocide, the holocaust and the further development of 'racial science'.
Culture, Community, Identity (30 Credits) - Core

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£13,220

Entry requirements

A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in social sciences or humanities. Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience, or a lively interest in the subject area, will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.

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Birkbeck, University of London is located in Bloomsbury, in the very centre of the UK’s cosmopolitan capital city, and students at the university are ideally placed to experience everything that London has to offer. It offers a portfolio of over 250 taught and research postgraduate programmes spanning a range of subject areas, including the humanities and social sciences, business, law, and science. Students at the university are members...more

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