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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Kateřina Werkman, Ph.D. (17.10.2018)
African Security (JPM306) Autumn semester 2018/19 6 ECTS Wednesday 9:30-10.50, Jinonice building, room … Lecturers Katerina Werkman (katka.werkman@gmail.com) Office hours Wednesday 11:00 - ONLY upon prior agreement by email, please! Course description This course aims to provide participants with a detailed understanding of the issues pertaining to security in sub-Saharan Africa. It adopts a broad view of security and includes the analysis of threats to African state and its institutions as well as to groups and individuals. Particular emphasis is placed on the study and seminar discussions of selected case studies from across the continent. Students are expected to prepare thoroughly for each seminar, understand the main texts and actively participate in the class discussions. Aims of the course At the end of the course, students should have a clear understanding of the diversity of issues in the security environment in Sub-Saharan Africa and be able to make an informed analysis of selected African case studies. Structure of the course Class 1: Introduction (Oct 3) Class 2: Historical Overview (Oct 10) Class 3: State in Africa (Oct 17) Class 4: Ethnicity in Politics and Conflict (Oct 24) Class 5: Religion in Politics and Conflict (Oct 31) Class 6: Natural Resources in Politics and Conflict (Nov 7) Class 7: Youth in Politics and Conflict (Nov 14) Class 8: Resolving Conflict and Keeping Peace in Africa (Nov 21) Class 9: Post-Conflict Justice and Reconciliation Processes (Nov 28) Class 10: When China met Africa – film screening (Dec 5) Class 11: Africa between “the East” and “the West” (Dec 12) Class 12: Disease as a Security Threat (Dec 19) (Readings for all classes to be announced shortly). Course requirements 1. Given the seminar style format of the class, attendance at every class meeting, for the full length of the class, is required and expected. Students are required to attend all seminars. One absence is permitted but students’ shall notify me in advance about it. Further absences will be considered on individual basis. Please note that in case of non-emergency and/or avoidable reasons, additional coursework will be provided in order to meet the course requirements. 2. Class participation is not the same as mere attendance but is understood to be active participation during class, including asking questions informed by the readings and grappling with arguments, concepts and evidence. This course depends on students’ active participation. Students are thus expected to be prepared thoroughly for each seminar: to understand the main texts, be able to speak during every class, answer questions about the readings or pose well-informed questions about them. If you plan to sit quietly in class all semester this is not the course for you! 3. Students are asked to write a total of 5 memos throughout the term. These class reflection memos allow students to weigh in on ideas/arguments raised during the actual class. Each reflection memo must include at least two points which can be in the form of: clarifying arguments/ideas raised during class, or statements/questions that engage the topic of the discussion further and raise new questions/points. It is NOT a summary of what has been said in the classroom. Class reflection memos are due by midnight on the Sunday after the relevant class. Please send them by email in a Word or PDF document titled YOUR NAME_number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). The class reflection memos will be made available for everyone (on an anonymous basis). This may provide students with a further opportunity to engage with the discussed issues and also help in preparing for the final exam. 4. During the official examination period, students will be given an essay exam. Students will be given 5 questions and required to answer 2 of them. In total, I will provide you with a list of no more than 10 questions - from which 5 will be selected for each term of the essay exam - no later than 15th of November, to give students the opportunity to begin thinking about how they would answer them and to share ideas with their peers.
Evaluation
Course rules The Code of Study and Examination of Charles University in Prague provides the general framework of study rules at the university. According to art. 6, par. 17 of this Code, “a student may not take any examination in any subject entered in his study plan more than three times, i.e. he shall have the right to two resit dates; no extraordinary resit date shall be permitted. (…) If a student fails to appear for an examination on the date for which he has enrolled without duly excusing himself, he shall not be marked; the provision of neither this nor of the first sentence shall constitute the right to arrange for a special examination date.” Any written assignment composed by the student shall be an original piece. The practices of plagiarism, defined by the Dean’s Provision no. 18/2015, are seen as “a major violation of the rules of academic ethics” and “will be penalized in accordance with Disciplinarian Regulations of the faculty.” |