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Challenges and Responses to the Creation of Free Societies. Table 2 captures the changes made to
Theme 1 in Unit 1, Module 3.

Table 2

Changes to Unit 1, Module 3

EXISTING SYLLABUS PROPOSED SYLLABUS

(Approved by SUBSEC in April 2016) (See Appendix III)

Unit 1 Unit 1

Module 3: Freedom in Action Module 3: Freedom in Action

Theme 1: Transformations in Caribbean Theme 1: Freedom Delayed: Challenges

Societies after 1900 and Responses to the Creation of Free Societies

The changes to the Modules in Unit 1 resulted in modifications to the Objectives and the Content for

this Unit. Table 3 provides examples of how the Objectives and Content have changed for the Unit.

Table 3

Amendments to Unit 1

EXISTING SYLLABUS PROPOSED SYLLABUS

(Approved by SUBSEC in April 2016) (See Appendix III)

Unit 1: Module 1 – General Objectives Unit 1: Module 1 – General Objectives

On completion of this Module, students should: On completion of this Module, students should:

1. understand the rights (reparatory justice), 1. appreciate the various achievements of the
interests, knowledge bases and perspectives indigenous American societies in science,
of Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean; and, technology, art, culture, politics, economy,
and ecology before the arrival of Africans and
2. understand the ways in which Indigenous Europeans;
men and women continue to contest the
colonial project and develop their societies. 2. understand the nature of the interactions
among indigenous peoples, Africans and
Europeans.

Unit 1: Module 1 – Specific Objectives Unit 1: Module 1 – Specific Objectives
Students should be able to: Students should be able to:

1. examine the impact of the colonial project 1. analyse the social, political and economic
on Indigenous societies after 1800; activities of indigenous Caribbean and South
American cultures using the available
2. examine the struggles and responses of evidence, including archaeological findings;
Indigenous men and women to the colonial
project including reparatory justice; 2. evaluate the arguments found in secondary
sources on contacts between indigenous
3. discuss ways in which indigenous societies peoples of the Americas and other peoples
developed after 1800; before 1492 in light of archaeological
evidence;
4. evaluate historic representations of
indigeneity and how these continuously feed 3. analyse the nature of the West African
stereotypes, especially about indigenous contract with Europe up to 1492;
women, and shape perceptions about the
indigenous peoples of the Caribbean;

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