Module LAW3205 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3205: Law, Testimony and Trauma
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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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Choice of topic for research project and written reflection on the reason behind the choice | 500 words | 1-8 | Written or oral |
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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Summative 1: A recorded or an in-person presentation and a bibliography and organized materials of the contents you will use for chapter 1 of the research project. | 20 | 5 minute presentation; a bibliography and a 4 page document of organized materials (extracts from the sources you will be using organized in a coherent way) | 1-8 | Written |
Summative 2: A recorded or an in-person presentation, a bibliography and organized materials of the contents you will use for chapter 2 of the research project. | 20 | 5 minute presentation, a bibliography and a 4 page document of organized materials (extracts from the sources you will be using organized in a coherent way) | 1-8 | Written |
Summative 3: Essay/podcast/blog/film/artistic creation connecting between chapters 1 and 2 and analyzing the interface between the experience of trauma and the legal response to it. | 60 | 2,500 word essay/podcast or blog or: 15 min film or artistic creation + 500 word document on the piece created. Art includes but not limited to poetry, visual art or recorded performance. | 1-8 | Written |
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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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Summative 1 | Same as original | 1-8 | August/September re-assessment period |
Summative 2 | Same as original | 1-8 | August/September reassessment period |
Summative 3 | Same as original | 1-8 | August/September reassessment 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.
Michel Foucault and François Ewald, “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 (St Martins Press, 2003).
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Books, 2017).
Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (Routledge, 2013).
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Hachette UK, 2015).
Monica Casper and Eric Wertheimer, Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2016).
Shoshana Felman, The Juridical Unconscious (Harvard University Press, 2002).
Didier Fassin, “THE HUMANITARIAN POLITICS OF TESTIMONY: Subjectification through Trauma in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict,” Cultural Anthropology 23, no. 3 (2008): 531–58.
Natalie Ohana “The Archaeology of the Courts’ Domestic Violence Discourse: Discourse as a Knowledge-Sustaining System,” Feminists@Law no. 9(2) 2019 https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.913.
Natalie Ohana Beyond Words: Breaking the Boundaries of Legal Language TEDx Talks,TedX GoodenoughCollege 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ydrf7DljfQ&feature=emb_logo.