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This course surveys Scottish involvement in the British Empire in the period c.1700-1840. It explores the relationship between gender and the British imperial project focusing on Scottish sources. Key topics include Scottish sojourning in Atlantic and Asian worlds; gender through the lens of the imperial project; reading for and working with the dignity of enslaved and subject people; sex and family in imperial spaces; reflections on present day legacies of empire; Whiteness and race.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Session | First Sub Session | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Many Scots travelled to eastern and western spaces of the British empire in search of a fortune to repatriate to Scotland. Many had relationships, normally non-consensual, with non-Europeans and left white families in Scotland. At the same time, intellectual circles in Scotland were developing ideas of femininity, masculinity, and the family, in conversation with their fellow Scots from imperial spaces.
This course examines how modern white forms of masculinity and femininity became constituted through Empire and family, and how non-Europeans were marginalised in this process. It considers how mixed-heritage children fitted into this emotional regime. Students will be introduced to methodologies from Gender History and the History of Emotions to consider how relationships, men, women and families, in Scotland and in colonised spaces, were shaped in order to serve the imperial project. We will explore primary and secondary sources, with a diversity of voices being fundamental to the course. Finally, students will be asked to reflect on present-day resonances of Empire in Scotland and beyond.
Assessment will include seminar participation, a reflective exercise, an essay, and a take-home exam.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 20 | Feedback Weeks | 24 | |
| Feedback |
Online written exam: Eight days to complete. Feedback will be in the form of email notification of marks with comments |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Read sources for marginalised voices, understand ethical and intellectual necessity of reading outside white scholarship and primary sources. |
| Factual | Understand | Understand Scotland’s involvement in the British Empire through the sojourning experience, c.1700-1840. |
| Procedural | Apply | Develop the ability to use gender history as methodological approach. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Be able to self-reflect on the legacies of empire in Scotland and colonised spaces. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 14 | Feedback Weeks | 17 | |
| Feedback |
Feedback will be in the form of email notification of marks with comments; general remarks in class and on MyAberdeen; and via optional individual face-to-face meeting where requested. |
Word Count | 2500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | Read sources for marginalised voices, understand ethical and intellectual necessity of reading outside white scholarship and primary sources. |
| Factual | Understand | Understand Scotland’s involvement in the British Empire through the sojourning experience, c.1700-1840. |
| Procedural | Apply | Develop the ability to use gender history as methodological approach. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Be able to self-reflect on the legacies of empire in Scotland and colonised spaces. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Feedback will be in the form of email notification of marks with comments; general remarks in class and on MyAberdeen. Assessed throughout duration of course seminar: wks 9-19 |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Read sources for marginalised voices, understand ethical and intellectual necessity of reading outside white scholarship and primary sources. |
| Factual | Understand | Understand Scotland’s involvement in the British Empire through the sojourning experience, c.1700-1840. |
| Procedural | Apply | Develop the ability to use gender history as methodological approach. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Be able to self-reflect on the legacies of empire in Scotland and colonised spaces. |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | 16 | Feedback Weeks | ||
| Feedback |
Feedback will be in the form of general remarks in class and optional individual face-to-face meeting where requested.
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Factual | Understand | Understand Scotland’s involvement in the British Empire through the sojourning experience, c.1700-1840. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Be able to self-reflect on the legacies of empire in Scotland and colonised spaces. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Online written exam: eight days to complete Feedback will be in the form of email notification of marks with comments. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Reflection | Evaluate | Be able to self-reflect on the legacies of empire in Scotland and colonised spaces. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Read sources for marginalised voices, understand ethical and intellectual necessity of reading outside white scholarship and primary sources. |
| Factual | Understand | Understand Scotland’s involvement in the British Empire through the sojourning experience, c.1700-1840. |
| Procedural | Apply | Develop the ability to use gender history as methodological approach. |
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