BASS Social Anthropology and Sociology

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The aims of this unit are to:

Provide the basis for students to develop practical skills in relation to the transdisciplinary issues of violence and disorder.

Develop personal and professional skills while working on the issues of violence and disorder.

Deepen overall understanding of global challenges and harms that relate to violence and disorder.

On this course unit, students will attend a weekly lecture and tutorial.

Teaching delivery will mostly take the form of active on-campus learning in the form of interactive lectures and tutorials. This on-campus learning will be complemented by a variety of e-learning tasks that will be embedded into teaching practice – thereby providing a blended learning environment. For example, prior to an on-campus tutorial, students will be given a task to complete online as part of their preparation to bring to the tutorial and discuss further. This may take the form of watching a video clip or reading a news article and then posting their reactions or answers to a question on a discussion board. The points on the discussion board can then be drawn out in the tutorial, thereby ‘warming up’ students to the topic and making them better prepared for discussion. Therefore, students will experience a range of learning styles to inform their overall experience.

The 30 contact hours are broken down as follows:

10x 2-hour lectures.

10x 1-hour tutorials. 

• Analyse case studies to identify issues of social harm and consider how and why violence occurs 

• Justify a policy critique related to violence and disorder using credible evidence 

• Design a well-structured written report using case study material and transdisciplinary research that would be accessible to a broad audience 

• Argue a self-determined viewpoint relating to an aspect of state violence 

One summative assessment: a 3,000-word report forming 100% weighting.

One formative assessment: a 500-word plan of the report structure and content.

Feedback to students is provided in the following ways:

Informal and verbal feedback during lectures/tutorials on student contributions – this can also be discussed with staff beyond taught sessions.

Students can discuss and/or submit a detailed one-page plan for their summative work (essay), staff will provide written feedback within 10 working days

Written feedback for summative assessments to be provided within standard SoSS timeframes.

Bloxham, D., and Moses, A. (eds.) (2010) The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Coleman, R., Sim, J., Tombs, S., Whyte, D. (eds.) (2009) State, Power, Crime. London: SAGE. 

Evans, I. (2009) Cultures of Violence. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 

Shaw, M. (2015) What is Genocide? Malden, MA: Polity Press. 

The 30 contact hours are broken down as follows:

10x 2-hour lectures.

10x 1-hour tutorials.