Offered
Not offered in 2008
Synopsis
As for HYM4140
Objectives
On successful completion of HYM5140, students will:
- Have a broad understanding of the relations between the British and their Indian subjects during the last eighty years of the Raj.
- Be familiar with a number of important novels and stories by English and Indian writers set in the India of the Raj.
- Be conversant with the problems of using fictional sources as historical texts.
- Be capable of researching and writing an extended original academic essay in the discipline of history.
Assessment
Class participation: 10%
Research essay (7000 words): 60%
Examination (2 hours): 30%
Contact hours
2 hour seminar per week
Prohibitions
HSY4140, HYM4140
