070236 UE Working Skills in Global History (2022S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 07.02.2022 08:00 to We 23.02.2022 12:00
- Registration is open from Fr 25.02.2022 08:00 to Mo 28.02.2022 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Th 31.03.2022 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Monday
07.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
14.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
21.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
28.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
04.04.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
25.04.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
02.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
09.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
16.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
23.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
30.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
13.06.
09:45 - 14:30
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
20.06.
08:30 - 14:45
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Monday
27.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
This course will familiarize students with a research of a historical topic in a global framework, but also train them to work with different kinds of texts, oral and visual presentations in relation to this topic – from abstracts and short essays to giving feedback, presenting a paper in a conference setting and preparing a field research mission. The practice of specific methodological and communication skills will be embedded in the subject of ‘Global Entanglements of American Civil Rights Movement’. This historical theme has gained prominence recently in the public discourse in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement and the surge in critical race studies. The various forms of communication and exchange between black America and the decolonization movement in the “Third World” during the Cold War era offers opportunities for students to look at the issue of racial discrimination from a historical perspective, engage in critical discussion of political and socio-economic issues, but also to build connections to broader theoretical issues and debates in today´s field of Global History.
Assessment and permitted materials
The students are expected to engage in continuous work throughout the semester with weekly reading and writing assignments as well as in-class presentations. Keeping in mind that many course attendants will arrive with different disciplinary backgrounds, the course instructor will make a special effort to set up a common level of reflection and debate for all the participants. In the middle of the semester, all course attendants will hand in a written draft paper on one of the topics discussed during the course. A fellow student will then read and provide feedback on this draft. During the course, the course instructor will encourage work in groups with students collaborating on different weekly tasks.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Students are expected to come to class regularly (only two missed classes are allowed) and to engage in continuous work throughout the semester with weekly reading and writing assignments as well as one in-class goup-presentation. All assignments have to be submitted through the Moodle-platform.At the middle of semester all course attendants will be obliged to hand in a written draft paper on one of the topics discussed during the course. This draft will then be read and feedbacked by a fellow student.The grade is going to be based on regular contribution in class (25%), written assignments (25%), participation in an oral group-presentation (25%) as well as the final version of the paper (12-15 pages) (25%).
Examination topics
Reading list
Brenda G. Plummer, In Search of Power: African-Americans in the Age of Decolonization, 1956-1974 (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2013).Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).Fanon Che Wilkins, “The Making of Black Internationalists: SNCC and Africa Before the Launching of the Black Power, 1960-1965”, Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 467-488.Jennifer B. Smith, An International History of the Black Panther Party (New York, Garland, 1999).Kevin Gaines, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (New York: Viking Press, 2011).Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).Nico Slate (ed.), Black Power beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).Penny Von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).Stokely Carmichael, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (New York: Scribner, 2003).
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New York: The New Press, 2008).Yohuru R. Williams, “American-Exported Black Nationalism: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Black Panther Party, and the Worldwide Freedom Struggle, 1967-1972”, Negro History Bulletin, 60 (July-Sept. 1997), 1-13.
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New York: The New Press, 2008).Yohuru R. Williams, “American-Exported Black Nationalism: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Black Panther Party, and the Worldwide Freedom Struggle, 1967-1972”, Negro History Bulletin, 60 (July-Sept. 1997), 1-13.
Association in the course directory
MA Globalgeschichte & Global Studies (Version 2019): Grundlagen der Globalgeschichte - UE Globalgeschichtliche Arbeitstechniken (4 ECTS).
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