Code |
SS129 |
Level |
1 |
Credit rating |
20 |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Type of module |
Extensive over one semester |
Aims |
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Learning outcomes |
On successful completion of the module the student will:
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Content |
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Teaching and learning strategies |
200 hours of study time delivered through 36 hours direct teaching and 164 hours directed private study outlined in the module handbook. There will be three hours of contact time weekly through the duration of the module. Depending on the subject matter there may be a more or less formal lecture, or talk from an invited speaker. The two workshops will be organised differently week by week, but will include whole group discussions, and small group and individual learning exercises. One hour of the contact time will be focussed on skills enhancement. The other one hundred and sixty-four hours will be taken up in seventy-five hours of private study preparing for the sessions; twenty-five hours on a formative essay during the semester; sixty-two hours of revision; and two hours in the examination. |
Learning support |
Burchill, J. and D. Raven 2007 Made in Brighton from the Grand to the Gutter: modern Britain as seen beside the sea London: Virgin Journals Parliamentary Affairs Students will be encouraged to regularly read a serious newspaper (e.g. Daily Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Independent or Financial Times) and watch and listen to serious news broadcasts (e.g. Channel 4 news, BBC 10 o’clock news and various Radio 4 programs such as Analysis and File on Four). A copy of the module handbook will be available for each student, as will access to StudentCentral. |
Assessment tasks |
A 2000 word case study outlining one of these four issues and identifying the key players involved in decision making locally. The study should make use of first hand experience and interviews from primary sources as well as library research and draw conclusions about the means through which community issues are resolved or social change achieved (LO 1-4). |
Brief description of module content and/or aims (maximum 80 words) |
To introduce students to the political structures and local pressure groups who are operating in their immediate community, through first hand experience of both voluntary and statutory bodies dealing with these. The course will look at several contemporary social issues and trace their histories from their emergence as activist-identified problems, to achieving community representation to becoming political questions. Students will be encouraged to take on one of these issues as an in depth case study and to spend time with both activists and local politicians concerned with these in order to become familiar with the ways in which policy and legislation are made. |
Area examination board to which module relates |
SASS Undergraduate |
Module team/authors/coordinator |
Rob Raeburn (Module Coordinator) and Juliet Millican |
Semester offered, where appropriate |
1 |
Site where delivered |
Falmer |
Date of first approval |
February 2008 |
Date of last revision |
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Date of approval of this version |
February 2008 |
Version number |
1 |
Replacement for previous module |
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Field for which module is acceptable and status in that field |
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Course(s) for which module is acceptable and status in that course |
Compulsory: Optional: |
School home |
School of Applied Social Science |
External examiner |
Dr John Hudson from January 2006. |
