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This course will engage students as active citizens through the viewing and discussion of films engaging contemporary moral issues. Feature length films, most often documentaries, will be screened during the class session and will be followed by student-led classroom debates about the issues raised. Each session will end with a lecture on the topic raised by the film. Assessment will be by way of short student papers explaining how the debates have led students to change their views on the discussed topics. Possible topics may include: environmentalism, energy policy, human relations with animals and food, global geopolitics and more.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
Assessment will be 100% continuous assessment. Students will turn in five 400-500-word response papers in the course of the term.
A core component of the course will be the classroom debates after watching contemporary films, primarily documentaries about a wide range of burning ethical questions. Students will be given 3-4 claims to defend, and will be divided up into groups to formulate their defence of these positions. This group work will therefore allow them to format not only their defence of their position, but the form that defence will take. This will also allow them to confront issues of equality and diversity, which will be promoted by the lecturer.
Response papers will be assigned in which students will discuss "how they changed their minds" in the course of the debates and watching the film. These papers will be marked and feedback given about the arguments made.
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