Module SOC3108 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3108: Sociology of Family and Gender
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
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 themes:
- Families in the 21st century: An overview of recent trends in post-industrialized societies
- Theories of gender in the context of the family institution
- Social and political aspects of reproductive behaviour
- Women’s education and fertility: A dynamic relationship
- Family policy and the opportunity costs of children
- ‘Doing gender’ and the division of paid and unpaid labour
- Who cares? Social aspects of care work
- Trends in assortative mating and union formation
- Union stability and the gendered division of labour
- Gender perspectives of union dissolution
- The relationship between gender equality and family dynamics
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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22 | 128 |
...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 | 22 | Weekly 2 hour lectures where we go over topics and materials |
Guided Independent Study | 48 | Reading and preparing for seminars (around 4-6 hours per week); |
Guided independent study | 80 | Study tasks directed by the module leader: e.g. 25 hours for essay, 15 hours for presentation, 40 hours for the final exam |
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 |
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Presentations in pairs | 10 minutes each | 1-8 | Verbal, written |
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 |
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50 | 50 | 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 |
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Essay | 50 | 2,000 words | 1-6,8,9 | Written Feedback |
Examination | 50 | 1 hour | 1-6,8,10 | Written Feedback |
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 |
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Essay | Essay | 1-6,8,9 | August/September re-assessment period |
Examination | Examination | 1-6, 8, 10 | August/September re-assessment period |