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Colonialism and its Afterlives (L2003)

15 credits, Level 4

Autumn teaching

This module explores how development challenges that we face today were hundreds of years in the making. 

We'll study:

• the historical foundations of our unequally developed world, focusing on the colonial relationships between European and North Amercian, Asian, Australasian and African societies of the last three hundred years
• the British Empire in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and settler colonial spheres
• forms of exploitation including trans-Atlantic slavery, coerced labour and rent extraction, along with the multiple forms of adaptation and resistance to them.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.