| FD10 A - English For Academic Purposes |
| This is a cross-disciplinary course, which is designed to provide a firm base for Communications Courses and for Courses in English for special purposes linked with specific disciplines. |
| FD13A - Law, Governance, Economy and Society in the Caribbean |
| This is a multi-disciplinary course of the Faculty of Social Sciences. It will introduce students to some of the major institutions in Caribbean society. This exposure is to both the historical and contemporary aspects of Caribbean society, including Caribbean legal, political and economic systems. In addition, Caribbean culture and Caribbean social problems are discussed. |
| ED20Y - Introduction to Computers in Education |
| In this course students will be able to acquire knowledge of computer, how the computer affects teaching and learning. It will also enable them to use the computer as a tool for manipulation of text, numbers and graphics; creating presentations; publishing; and information transfer. |
| ED29L - The Nature of History |
| The course is designed to develop and extend participants' knowledge and understanding of the historian's craft (method of work) by engaging them in a spirited inquiry into the nature of the discipline. |
| ED29G - Introduction to the Teaching of History |
| The course examines the concept of teacher professionalism and relates it to the knowledge, skills and attitudes that participants need to acquire and develop to become effective teachers of history. The course also examines and addresses relevant contemporary issues – literacy, gender, action research - as they impact teaching and learning in general and history in particular. |
| ED20X - Issues and Perspectives in Education |
| This course seeks to develop the students' understanding of the interplay of forces, which affect teaching and learning and influence educational practice and policy. Students should thereby come to appreciate the critical and dynamic role they play as the educators of the citizens of tomorrow. |
| ED29H - History Outside the Classroom |
| Instruction in history is very often confined solely to the classroom when the historic environment in which we live is a rich resource in itself. This course therefore utilizes the variety of resources found outside the classroom - the landscape and its material culture. These not only enliven the study of history through concrete experiences but also provide the opportunity for participants to engage in first hand historical investigation similar to that undertaken by the professional historian. Particular emphasis is placed on field visits and local history study. |
| ED39E - Teaching History in Secondary Schools |
| This course examines the various ways of teaching history set against the background of the learning theories and how they inform the practice of teaching and learning. |
| ED39F - The History Curriculum in Secondary Education |
| This course examines the reasons for studying history and its contribution to human development and link these to how the history curriculum is designed at the secondary level in terms of its aims/objectives and in particular the selection of content with its core emphasis on curricular issues. |
| ED30Z – Investigating our Teaching |
| This course is designed to aid in the understanding of the role of the teacher as a learner, researcher, self-evaluator and reflective practitioner. It provides an opportunity for students to apply their know-ledge of the teaching learning process in implementing an innovative teaching experiment to address a problem in their classrooms, to reflect critically on the experience and to write a report, which informs their future practice. |
| ED39D - Assessment Practices in History |
Participants in this course will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to design and administer a variety of assessment instruments to assess achievement in history. At the heart of this assessment process is an understanding of the purposes of assessment and how this informs the type of instruments developed and used as they relate to the objectives of instruction and the nature of the discipline. Participants will also be exposed to the skills and knowledge required to evaluate performance
particularly in relation to the school based assessment component of the CXC. |
| H17C - Introduction to History |
| An introduction to the nature and objectives of history, the variety of historical writing, the methods and sources of the historian, and some philosophical questions about our knowledge of the past. |
| H16A - The Atlantic World 1400-1600 |
| This course is a creation of one of the most significant regional systems in world history, a system unified by the Atlantic Ocean. The course will focus on how distinct and separate cultural and biological areas that surrounded the Atlantic were integrated into a network of exchange rooted in the long-distance movement of people, plants, animals, commodities and ideas. Demographic, economic and cultural consequences are emphasized. |
| H16B - The Atlantic World 1600-1800 |
| The course addresses the revolutionary changes experienced in the Atlantic World as a result of the early encounters of the peoples of the Atlantic regions. The course aims to identify the characteristic features which gave definition to the Atlantic World of the 17th and 18th century as well as explore the network of exchange that held the Atlantic World together. |
| H20F - Conquest, Colonization and Resistance in the Caribbean, 1600 – the end of slavery |
| This course, which spans the period 1600-1886, examines the primary forces and characteristics features evident in the Caribbean between the European invasion and the ending of the various slave regimes. It is concerned with the ways in which conquer, colonization, revolution of the plantation system, slavery and imperialism affected the course of Caribbean history and fostered a spirit of resistance in its indigenous and enslaved African people. It looks comparatively at the slave regimes in the Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean and examines the degree to which the exploited and marginalized [ male and female] were able to refashion their world and bring about a collapse of slavery and the plantation system. A significant objective of the course is to use the revisionist sources to interrogate the traditional and counter-discourse. The course will pay attention to the diversity of Caribbean populations and take on broad issues of class, colour, gender and ethnicity. |
| H20G - Freedom, Decolonization and Independence in the Caribbean since 1804 |
| A comparative examination of the disintegration of the ancient regime – the slave systems and supporting mercantile structures – and new modes of social and economic survival within the context of the rise of modernizing nationalist states. The central concept is the degree of continuity and change within the process of transformation at all levels. International relations and the maturing of regional identity are all discussed. |
| H24C - Revolution and Industrialization in 19th century Europe |
| An examination of the nature and consequences of the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution for the politics and society of Europe between the Old Regime and the First World War. Themes studied: The French Revolution and its impact in Continental Europe; Economic and Social hange during the period of Industrialization; the Revolution of 1848 and the growth of the Socialist Movement; Nationalism and National Unification; Aspects of Modernization. |
| H22D - From Developing to “Developed” North American 1815-1980 |
| This course will examine the meaning and processes of “development”; to follow the social political and economic evolutions in the emerging nation-states and to explore the relationship between the United States and Canada. |
| H23C - The State and Development in Africa 1800-1900 |
| The course examines the nature of the indigenous state structures and economic development before going on to discuss the following themes: European occupation of Africa and the evolution of the colonial state; relations between the colonial state and the world religions – Islam and Christianity – as cultural forces of change; the colonial state and the economic re-orientation of African societies – the abolition of domestic slavery, cash cropping monetization and evolution of the factor-market in Africa. |
| H30V - Cuba in the Twentieth Century |
Prerequisite H20F OR H20G
This course examines the political, social and economic development of Cuba since 1895, with special reference to the Cuban Revolution since 1959, the influence of the United States on Cuba before and after 1959, and the impact of Cuba on Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America since 1959. |
| H30C - Women and Gender in the History of the English-Speaking Caribbean |
Prerequisite: H20F OR H20G
This course examines problems, issues, theoretical aspects of women, gender and history; gender and women's historical experience in the Caribbean during the ear of slavery and colonization [1490-1830s]; Afro-Caribbean women after slavery; the historical experience of Indo-Caribbean women and ‘minority' women in the period 1838-1918; women's participation in Caribbean social, cultural and political life 1838-1918; women in labour and political struggles 1918-1960s; employment, demography, family structures, migration in the 20th century; biographical case studies e.g. M. Seacole, A. Jeffers, E. Manley, E. Francois, A. Bailey. |
