Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2018: National and Community Identity

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

1. Introduction to syllabus, imagining the community and narratives of identity.

2. The function of identity

3. National identity

4. Race or ethnicity? Social learning or accident of birth?

5. Identity as ‘difference’,

6. The construction of difference.

7. Structure vs Agency? What affects does identity have?

8. Case Study 1: Cornish Nationalism.

9. Case Study 2: The British Muslim.

10. Identity, policy and political discourse.

11. Revision session

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
18	132	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 and teaching activity	11	11 x 1 hour lectures
Scheduled Learning and teaching activity	7	7 x 1 hour seminars, some of which will be student led with formal presentations and student facilitation of discussion
Guided Independent study	5	Preparation for student led seminar
Guided Independent study	40	Preparation for 1st Essay (summative)
Guided Independent study	40	Preparation for 2nd Essay (summative)
Guided Independent study	47	Private study

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).