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Year
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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.
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.
UC010 Fundamentals of Written English
A compulsory remedial course for those persons who failed the English Proficiency
Test.
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.
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.
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Year
2 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Year
3 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Year
4 |
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.
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.
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.
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
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