SA5050 Caribbean Cultures and Heritage: Debating Cultural Curatorship

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 11

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Planned timetable

To be confirmed

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Module coordinator

Dr H O B Wardle

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Module Staff

Dr Huon Wardle and Dr Karen Brown

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

This inter-disciplinary team-taught module brings together cross-disciplinary perspectives on the multicultural Caribbean, drawing on expertise at St Andrews and the University of the West Indies. Incorporating consideration of the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial eras, students will delve into theories and models of cultural contact, heritage and, centrally, questions of cultural curatorship, involving anthropological, sociological, historical and museum studies approaches. The course content will include a close examination of the meanings of ‘culture’ and heritage in the postcolonial era, cosmopolitanism, creolisation, gender, indigeneity and regional politics with an accent on the coloniality of power. Practice-based learning will focus on the methodologies of ethnography, archaeological fieldwork and museum curation and engagement. Those studying programmes at St Andrews will meet regularly in person and utilise digital tools to collaborate with those at the University of the West Indies.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 x 1.5 hour Seminars (10 weeks)

Intended learning outcomes

  • Articulate critical approaches to ‘culture’ and ‘heritage’ and problems of cultural curatorship in and of the Caribbean
  • Take ownership of methodological approaches and practical solutions derived from key models, theories and discourses concerning the Atlantic-Caribbean space.
  • Devise and impart new collaborative knowledge practices addressing diverse publics and policy-making audiences
  • Build entrepreneurial and mediating capacities that generate new modes of cultivating and curating European-Caribbean relations and Atlantic cultures
  • Generate new creative collaborative teaching and research links and opportunities and insights on the core themes shared between the two institutions