Module SOC3095 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3095: On Violence
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
On Violence aims to increase your confidence in developing independent thinking, expressing that thinking verbally and in written materials, and responding to other people’s contributions, in a seminar environment. It also exposes you to an issue that is challenging in many ways, and cross-disciplinary by nature.
On Violence will help develop and strengthen your abilities to:
- synthesize and critically assess the relationship between different approaches to violence;
- apply the insights and findings in the literature to the analysis of problems confronting society;
- scrutinize the methodological foundations of studying harm;
- conduct independent analysis.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate a significant understanding of the types of social science research into violence 2. Considerately evaluate how the different sources of information about violence, both quantitative and qualitative, and how they are produced - including their location in particular political and social frameworks - and how they can be interpreted |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Develop and deploy arguments grounded in theoretical frameworks; 4. Draw substantiated thematic comparisons between material from different sources; 5. Clearly and articulately present research, policy debates and your own arguments; |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. Present an argument orally in a clear, organized, effective and persuasive manner; 7. Evaluate own work and those of others; 8. Demonstrate collaborative skills, e.g. group work, including the presentation and discussion of material in groups. 9. Demonstrate the ability to work independently, within a limited time frame, and without access to external sources, to complete a specified task. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module will examine a wide range of type of violence. Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following themes over one or more weeks:
Defining Violence - Primary Question: How is violence defined?
Communication and Violence - Primary Question: How is communication characterized by violence?
Measuring Violence - Primary Question: How is violence measured?
Seeing Violence - Primary Question: How are violent acts rendered seen and unseen?
Systematizing Violence - Primary Question: How is violence ‘structural’?
Bounding Violence - Primary Question: How are social limits placed on violence?
Ignoring Violence - Primary Question: How do societies learn to ignore harm?
Remembering Violence - Primary Question: How do societies remember violence?
Symbolic Violence - Primary Question: In what way do representations entail forms of violence?
Re-defining Violence - Primary Question: How should violence be defined?
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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44 | 256 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 44 | 22 x 2-hour seminars (lecturers explanations, student participation and discussion) |
Guided Independent Study | 48 | Preparing for the seminars |
Guided Independent Study | 80 | Reading assignments |
Guided Independent Study | 20 | Additional reading/research |
Guided Independent Study | 108 | Preparation for and completion of all exams |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).