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Course: 2025/2026

Middle East conflict and cinema
(12884)
Academic Program of Computer Engineering via Bachelor in Computer Engineering (Study Plan 2023) (Plan: 509 - Estudio: 218)


Coordinating teacher: MANERO SALVADOR, ANA MARIA

Department assigned to the subject: International Law, Ecclesiastical Law and Philosophy of Law Department

Type: Courses of humanities
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
No previous knowledge is required.
Objectives
The competencies expected that students acquire are the understanding of an independent or alternative audiovisual language and the knowledge of one of the most serious conflicts in our history. All this favors the creation of critical thinking in students, which will serve to analyze complex situations of international politics, without giving trite statements for granted and building a stronger discourse away from topics.
Description of contents: programme
1. The beginnings of the conflict a. Zionism b. The British Mandate over Palestine c. The Holocaust 2. The partition plan and its consequences. The 1948 war 3. The Occupation and the Right to Self-Determination 4. The key elements of the conflict: territory, settlements, occupation, human rights.
Learning activities and methodology
The tutoring will take place Thursday morning
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 25
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 75

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • CARTER, J.. Palestine. Peace, not apartheid. Simon & Schuster. 2006
  • CHOMSKY, N.. On Palestine. Verso. 2015
  • MEARSHEIMER, J.J. . The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007
  • PAPPÉ, I. . The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oneworld Publications. 2007
  • PAPPÉ, I. . Ten Myths About Israel. Verso. 2017
  • TESSLER, M.A.. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Indiana University Press. 1994
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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.