College of Social Sciences and International Studies
On Violence
Module SOC2095 for 2018/9
Module SOC2095 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC2095: On Violence
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 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 clear understanding of the types of social science research into violence 2. Engage with 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 thematic comparisons between material from different sources; 5. Clearly present research, policy debates and your own arguments; |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. Present an argument orally in a clear, organized and effective manner; 7. Evaluate your own work and those of others; 8. Demonstrate skills in collaborative working, e.g. group work, including the presentation and discussion of material in groups; and 9. Demonstrate the ability to work independently, within a limited time frame, and without access to external sources, to complete a specified task. |