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 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).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Rosenberg, M. (1999) Nonviolent Communication
Pachirat, T. (2012) Every Twelve Seconds
Maguire, M., Morgan, R. and Reiner, R. (eds.) (1997) The Oxford Handbook in Criminology
Rappert, B. (2012). How to Look Good in a War
Safran Foer, J (2009) Eating Animals
Henckaerts, Jean-Marie and Doswald-Beck, Louise. (2005) Customary International Humanitarian Law
Price, R. (1997) The Chemical Weapons Taboo
Proctor, R. (2011) Golden Holocaust
WHO. (2002) World report on violence and health