- UCAS course code
- LR40
- UCAS institution code
- M20
BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response and Spanish / Course details
Year of entry: 2024
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Course unit details:
Conceptualising the Camp
Unit code | HCRI30652 |
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Credit rating | 20 |
Unit level | Level 3 |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Available as a free choice unit? | Yes |
Overview
Aims
- To interrogate the different definitions and understandings of the Camp in humanitarian settings
- To consider the types of humanitarian crises which result in the formation of camps · To critically assess the purpose of camps for different actors and the roles played by these actors in maintaining or dismantling them.
- Develop critical research and analysis skills related to the use of primary and secondary sources and demonstrated through two pieces of assessment
- Develop research skills aimed at delivering a guided seminar for fellow students.
Teaching and learning methods
Knowledge and understanding
- Evaluate a range of conceptual models used to define the camp.
- To develop a critical cogency and originality in interpreting the the actors involved in the creation and maintenance of camps and the purposes they serve
- To exemplify a good understanding of the types of humanitarian crises or conflicts which result in the creation of a camp, past and present
- To understand the historical lineage of the camp and its colonial underpinnings through analysis, critical engagement and management of sources and evidence.
- To use this knowledge to make an assessment on the future of the camp in humanitarian and conflict settings.
Intellectual skills
- Critically interrogate the literature and primary sources on camps in humanitarian and conflict settings, past and present
- Understand scholarship on the theories of camp creation and interrogate the differences between the scholarship from the Global North versus the Global South.
- Develop an ability to use primary sources, to use personal accounts and sources as a means for developing academic arguments.
- To demonstrate these skills with accuracy, lucidity and fluency in assessments.
Practical skills
- Understand the many facets of a camp in different circumstances and use this understanding for appropriate humanitarian interventions in future crises.
- Have a sound understanding of the international standards expected for refugee management today.
- Be able to translate historical facets of the camp to present day humanitarian iterations of the camp.
- Develop a screencast podcast to inform others of the ways in which camps were conceptualised in the past or present
- Write a critical essay demonstrating research skills and academic and referencing conventions
Transferable skills and personal qualities
- Develop an audio / visual screencast mini-documentary to communicate academic knowledge to a wider audience.
- Become specialists in refugee / IDP camps and detention centres for future careers.
- Bring the human element to a solid, physical structure
Employability skills
- Group/team working
- Recognising and identifying views of others and working constructively with them
- Research
- Information Retrieval - ability independently to gather, sift, synthesise and organise material from various sources (including library, electronic and online resources), and to critically evaluate its significance. Research design - ability to develop and design an independent research project
- Other
- Presentation - capacity to make a screen cast presentations, using appropriate media for a target audience Time Management - ability to schedule tasks in order of importance Improving own Learning - ability to improve one's own learning through planning, monitoring, critical reflection, evaluate and adapt strategies for one's learning
Assessment methods
Assessment Task | Formative or Summative | Weighting |
Tutorial preparation and participation | Formative | 0% |
Knowledge translation project – screencast documentary | Summative | 30% |
Essay | Summative | 70% |
Feedback methods
Feedback method | Formative or Summative |
Written feedback | On all summative assessments |
Oral feedback | Presentation - Formative |
Additional feedback as required in office hours | Formative and summative |
Recommended reading
Gatrell, P. (2013) The Making of the Modern Refugee, OUP: Oxford
Hall, A. (2012) Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control, Pluto Press
Hampton, J. (2002) Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey, Routledge.
Hilberg, R. (1985) The Destruction of the European Jews, New York: Holmes & Meier.
Johnson, H. (2014) Borders, asylum and global non-Citizenship: the other side of the fence, CUP: Cambridge.
Laycock, J. (2015) ‘Beyond National Narratives? Centenary Histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide’, Revolutionary Russia, 28:2.
Lisher, S. K. (2005) Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid, Cornell University Press: New York.
Smith, I. R. & Stucki, A. (2011) ‘The Colonial Development of Concentration Camps’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 39:3.
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Lectures | 22 |
Seminars | 11 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 167 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Jessica Hawkins | Unit coordinator |