Module SOC1003 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC1003: Imagining Social Worlds: Texts
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
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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Discussion of compulsory readings in seminars | Weekly | 1-10 | Oral commentary on discussion in seminars |
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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100 | 0 | 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 1 | 50 | 2000 words | 1-8 and 10 | Written and oral |
Essay 2 | 50 | 2000 words | 1-8 and 10 | Written and Oral |
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 3 (2000 words) | Essay 1 (2000 words) | 1-8 and 10 | August-September re-assessment period |
Essay 2 (2000 words) | Essay 2 (2000 words) | 1-8 and 10 | August-September re-assessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Sociology
- Abercrombie, Nicholas. 2004. Sociology: A Short Introduction . Oxford: Polity Press.
- Alexander, Jeffrey C., Kenneth Thompson, and Laura Desfor Edles (eds). 2012. A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology: Culture and Society in Transition (Second Edition) . Boulder, London: Paradigm Publishers.
- Giddens, Anthony (ed.) 1992. Human societies: An Introductory Reader in Sociology . Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Lemert, C. (2012) Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological life , 5 th edition, London: Rowman & Littlefields
- Halsey, A. H. 2004. A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature and Society. Oxford Scholarship Online. [ebook]
Anthropology
- Barnard, Alan and Jonathan Spencer (eds). 1996. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge. [ebook]
- Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2001. Small Places, Large Issues . Pluto Press.
- Hendry, Joy. 2008. Sharing our Worlds: An Introduction to Anthropology (2nd revised edition) . Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kuper, Adam. 1996. Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School (3rd edition) . London and New York, Routledge.
- Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders (eds). 2006. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology . Blackwell.