Module POC2087 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2087: Security Studies
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
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 topics:
- "Security! What do you mean?"
- Understanding Security through Insecurity
- The Referent Objects: State, Individual, Race, Gender?
- State Security and Liberal Security
- Emancipation and Intervention
- Feminism and Sex
- Postcolonialism and Development
- Poststructuralism and Fear
- Securitization and the Everyday
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 130 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 20 | 10 x 2 hour seminars |
| Guided independent study | 85 | Research and preparation for seminars |
| Guided independent study | 45 | Revising and preparing for essays |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
CHALLENGE: A Research Project Funded by the Sixth Framework Research Programme of DG Research (European Commission) (http://www.libertysecurity.org/)
Critical Approaches to Security in Europe (c.a.s.e. collective): http://www.casecollective.org
Histories of Violence. (http://historiesofviolence.com/)
The Disorder of Things https://thedisorderofthings.com/
Other Learning Resources
Battle of Algiers (1966)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Four Lions (2010)
