Joint Honours involves four modules from each level in Caribbean Studies, plus four from your other subject. You may choose Major/Minor at the end of level 1 or continue with Joint Honours.

Caribbean Studies options include a work placement module. You may also study for one semester or a year on exchange in the Caribbean (usually at University of West Indies in Barbados, Jamaica or Trinidad), the United States or Europe. There is also the possibility of including language study abroad, in Spanish (e.g. in Cuba) or French (e.g. in Martinique).

Further details...

The following are the modules offered in Caribbean Studies. Please note that some are offered in alternate years.

Level 1
Caribbean Film and Literature
The Making of the Caribbean
The Modern Caribbean

Level 2
Literature and the Shaping of Caribbean Society
Caribbean Women
Race, Colour and Class in the Caribbean
The Shaping of Modern Cuba
The Caribbean Experience in Britain since 1945

Level 3
The Greater Caribbean
The Literature of the French Caribbean since 1945
The Intellectual History of the Anglophone-Caribbean
Cricket and the British West Indies
The Indian Experience in the Caribbean
Caribbean Women Writers
Caribbean Literature to 1949
Dissertation
Placement

Teaching Methods and Assessment

Modules are taught by a combination of lectures and seminars and requested individual tutorials. You are encouraged to examine questions from a variety of perspectives, and to analyse the issues. Seminars seek to stimulate critical and creative thinking as well as effective communication. Assessment is by a combination of coursework and examination. Work at both levels is assessed and although you must pass the preliminary level, only advanced level work counts towards the class of degree awarded. If you are studying Caribbean Studies as a major, you must undertake your final year project in this subject area; if you are taking the course jointly with another subject area, then you may also choose to do so. The project comprises a dissertation of 8,000 words written under tutorial guidance on a topic of your own choice. Study skills facilities are available on request for students returning to education after a break of a number of years.

Further information

Suggested reading