Level 1
- KL 10F1 - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY 1
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Mr D Paterson
Pre-requisites
Overview
The course presents students with a general introduction to understanding the unique manner in which sociologists seek to understand contemporary societies from an objective and scientific standpoint. Students are presented with current and classical approaches to understanding the social process that underlie self construction, group formation and social interaction within an urbanising and globalising social milieu.
Structure
1 one-hour lecture per week (with additional guest lectures and alternative exercises) and 1 one-hour tutorial.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%); continuous assessment (one 1500 word essay; 40%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).Formative Assessment
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- KL 10F2 - WHAT MAKES US HUMAN 1
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Mrs E Curtis
Pre-requisites
Overview
At the heart of this course are considerations of the ways in which ideas of gender, power relations, belief and family structures contribute to how we understand what it is to be human and the impact of such understandings on the ways in which people develop as human beings and how they are treated in society.
Structure
2x 1 hour lecture per week Mon, Thurs at 10, 1x 90 minute tutorial per week, Lectures and tutorials will be supplemented by tutor directed learning and discussion using WebCT. Tutorials will be student led using a Philosophy for Learning approach.
Assessment
1st Attempt: This involves a 2000 word essay which has the following specific requirements:
• Demonstrates understanding of issues of What Makes us Human?
• Demonstrates the contribution of different influences in the development of ideas by a range of relevant references to the course reader and other academic texts.
• Makes reference to lectures and tutorial discussions.
• Offers reasoned conclusions about the experiences of being human.
Resit: Resubmission of failed criteria within 2000 word essay.Formative Assessment
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- KL 15F1 - BRITISH POLITICS, THE EU AND MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Professor G Jordan
Pre-requisites
Overview
The European Union's influence and reach is central to an understanding of British politics. But what exactly is the European Union and what is the effect of Europeanisation on British politics? This course examines the main features of the UK (including its institutional arrangements, political parties and government) and EU systems (Commission, Council, Parliament) and explains the effect of the EU on the British policy process. It situates this study within a growing interest in multi-level governance, which describes a diffusion of power from central governments to other levels of government and to quasi and non-governmental actors.
Structure
2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%); continuous assessment (40%). Continuous assessment is one 1500 word essay (100%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).Formative Assessment
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- KL 15F2 - CONTROVERSIAL CLASSICS
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr S Alcobia-Murphy
Pre-requisites
Overview
Literature can provoke, offend and disturb as well as entertain. This course considers some of the most powerful and controversial works of modern literature. It examines the circumstances of publication, the nature of the controversy, and the cultural and critical impact of each work. The course shows how poems, plays and novels can raise searching questions about national, racial and personal identity, and looks at the methods used by writers to challenge their readers, as well the responses of readers to such challenges. Included are texts such as: Vladimir Nabokov’s (i)Lolita, Art Spiegelman's Maus and Seamus Heaney's North.
Structure
2 one-hour lectures (Tue and Thur at 12) and 1 one-hour tutorial (to be arranged) per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (50%): 1000 word essay (15%); 1500 word essay (25%); Tutorial Assessment Mark (10%). 1 two-hour written examination (50%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).Formative Assessment
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- KL 15F3 - ENGLISH STRUCTURE AND USE
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr M Durham and Dr R McColl Millar
Pre-requisites
Overview
An understanding of the way language is structured is an invaluable tool to discuss and analyse English and other languages. This course provides students with an introduction to the main aspects of English linguistics. Students will learn how to identify and analyse the major "building blocks" of language through an introduction to phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as sociolinguistics. Examples for illustration and discussion will be drawn from varieties of English spoken in the British Isles and world-wide. Lectures and tutorials will be geared to providing students with an active vocabulary with which to discuss language and essential analytical tools with which to analyse its structure and function.
Structure
2 one-hour lectures, and 1 one-hour tutorial.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 3 on-line assessments (20% each); one 1,500-2000 word paper (30%); Tutorial Assessment Mark (10%).
Resit: Examination (100%).Formative Assessment
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- KL 15F4 - RELIGION AT GROUND ZERO
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr C Brittain
Pre-requisites
Overview
To introduce students to practical theology and Christian ethics. This is accomplished by demonstrating how theological issues arise out of human contextual experience, and how theologians respond to specific historical events. Some familiarity with issues that arise in Christian ethics will be accomplished through attention to the debate over the question of a “Just War” in Christian thought.
Structure
2 one-hour lectures per week and 1 one-hour tutorial.
Assessment
1st Attempt: One essay of 1200-1500 words (30%); 2 short tutorials papers (5% each); final exam (60%).
Resit: Examination (100%).Formative Assessment
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