Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW2095: Equality and Diversity

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

1. Immediate module aim
This module aims to help develop your understanding of the legal principles involved in contemporary equality and diversity issues. It aims to provide you with not only the knowledge and skill to identify the manifestations of inequality in society but also the ability to engage with the issues and to identify solutions to tackle such inequality from an evidence-based research-inspired perspective (research-inspired learning).

2. Long-term module aim
Ultimately, as you learn deeply on this module, your understanding can widen your perspective in such a way that it enables you to contribute positively to the debate on and implementation of equal opportunity; this way, you are empowered to use evidence based research and policy into practice (potentially enhancing your employability).

3. Equality Duty
The equality duty was created under the Equality Act 2010 and requires organisations, including universities, to consider how they could positively contribute to the advancement of equality and good relations. It requires equality considerations to be reflected in the delivery of services, and for these issues to be kept under review.

Thus, this module could prepare you for the existing equality duty when you enter employment following graduation.

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 awareness of some legal origins, manifestations and solutions to inequality and equal opportunity 2. Identify, explain and evaluate some key issues of inequality and apply relevant legal rules and theories
Discipline-Specific Skills	3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity principles and their limits 4. Apply knowledge to a problem and suggest a solution supported by relevant arguments derived from Law
Personal and Key Skills	5. Research and synthesize potentially conflicting arguments from within the Law and consider alternative ways of solving complex and authentic equality problems 6. Select, integrate and present coherently and reflectively, in writing, relevant concepts and arguments.

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
Essay	1,250 words	1-6	Individual written feedback, followed by self -reflection and peer dialogue (overseen by seminar tutor) during seminar;generic feedback from seminar tutor during 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
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
Essay	100	2,500 words	1-6	Written feedback and generic feedback
	0
	0
	0
	0
	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 (2500 words)	1-6	August/September re-assessment period

Re-assessment notes

A new question will be set for the re-assessment essay.

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.

Basic reading: Blackstone’s Guide to the Equality Act 2010, Third Edition 10 November 2016

Bob Hepple, Equality: The Legal Framework (Hart 2014)

Aileen McColgan, Discrimination, Equality and the Law (Human Rights in Perspective), (Hart 2014)

Sandra Fredman, Discrimination Law (OUP 2011)

Tarunabh Khaitan, A Theory of Discrimination Law (OUP 2015)