There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

This module is designed to help you understand the historical and socio-political issues that underlie modern-day intercultural conflicts. These understandings will help you appreciate where people from different places may be ‘coming from’, that is, the narratives, understandings, priorities, and world views that may be based on national/educational/media narratives. In tandem, diversity within cultures/countries is explored, showing how people from the same culture may have widely different views on any given issue.

The module is taught in two parts. Part One gives you an overview of modern world history, taking a thematic approach. Themes discussed include ideological and religious paradigms, international alignments and the great powers, decolonization and the postcolonial Global South, and twenty-first century issues, e.g. globalization, climate change, population, migration, and public health. Part Two puts these historical understandings to use using selected case studies. You will learn how to apply historical knowledge to identify and analyse diverse intercultural perspectives as they play out in present-day conflicts at international but also interpersonal levels. To do this, you will consider present-day case studies of intercultural conflict/misunderstandings. Within these, you will learn to identify, investigate, and analyse diverse narratives, enabling you to understand situations from various cultural perspectives.

LO1: Develop an awareness of important events and themes in modern world history;
LO2: Account for how modern world history affects societies’ narratives of their own and other’s cultural and national identities;
LO3: Gain an appreciation of ways in which diverse cultural narratives affect contemporary intercultural communications;
LO4: Recognize historical factors in contemporary case studies of intercultural misunderstandings.