Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3169: Equality and Diversity at Work

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Module Aims

This module aims to develop your interdisciplinary understanding of the key legal, psychological and organisational principles involved in contemporary equality and diversity issues. It aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills to understand the reasons for and manifestations of inequality in society, specifically in the work environment; it also aims to provide you not only with the knowledge and skills to identify the problems associated with contemporary inequality, but also with the ability to engage with the issues, and to identify solutions to tackle such inequality from an academic perspective. The central aim of this module is to help you develop a more complete understanding of these issues than could be given by any of these disciplines alone, and to develop interdisciplinarity. The aim is for you to make interconnections across educational disciplinary boundaries, through the inclusion of multiple perspectives, knowledge and skills (Law, Psychology, Business), and to synthesise different perspectives and work with others collaboratively in finding solutions to today’s equality problems. This module intends to support you in becoming an interdisciplinary thinker who will analytically and creatively find solutions to today’s most challenging and authentic problems.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Demonstrate critical awareness of the wide range of legal, psychological and organisational origins, manifestations, and solutions to inequality and lack of diversity 2. Identify, explain and critically evaluate key issues of inequality in the workplace and apply relevant rules and theory from Law, Psychology and Business
Discipline-Specific Skills	3. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and understanding of legal, psychological and organisational concepts, values, principles and procedures with regards to equality in the workplace, and explain the interdisciplinary relationship among them, as well as their limits 4. Apply interdisciplinary knowledge from Law, Psychology and Business to a problem and suggest a solution supported by relevant arguments derived from these disciplines
Personal and Key Skills	5. Interact effectively and proactively across disciplinary boundaries to consider other viewpoints, compare and contrast concepts across subjects 6. Synthesise and research across disciplines, developing varied perspectives, integrating (potentially) conflicting insights from different disciplines, and consider alternative ways of solving complex authentic problems 7. Select, integrate and present coherently and reflectively, orally and in writing, relevant concepts and arguments 8. Read a wide range of documents; finding and researching extra material across three disciplines 9. Work independently, within a limited time frame, and without access to external sources, to complete a specified task

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:

Introduction

Problem overview
Levels of analyses and disciplinary contributions
Team building

Manifestations of inequality at different levels

Policies
Organisation
Individual and interpersonal

Origins of the problem

Policies
Organisations
Individual and Interpersonal

Solutions

Policies
Organisations
Individual and Interpersonal

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
33	117

...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	33	Seminars (11 x 3 hours)
Guided Independent Study	72	Reading and preparation for seminars (6.5 hours per seminar)
Guided Independent Study	23	Reading and preparation for essay
Guided Independent Study	22	Reading and preparation for examination

Online Resources

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

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Short Essay, voluntary ; submission of draft essay part for summative essay and self marked; draft may be reworked and developed on the basis of tutor feedback and included in summative essay as one of the substantive parts of the essay.	750- 1000 words	All	Self-marking material during seminar, guidance made available during seminar overseen by tutor; comments from tutor in the room; generic feedback in seminar

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
40	60	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Essay	35	2000 words	All	Written feedback
Examination	60	2 hours	All	Generic feedback posted on ELE after the exam; Oral feedback on request
Active Participation	5	Throughout seminars	1-7	Oral and written
	0
	0
	0

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Essay	Essay (new question will be set)	All	August/September re-assessment period
Examination	Examination	All	August/September re-assessment period
Active Participation	Oral Viva(10 minutes)	1-7	August/September reassessment period