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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SSI3002: Immigration in Western Societies

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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 topics.

The lectures provide a general discussion of major theoretical and empirical issues in the study of immigrants/ethnic minorities. We will discuss immigration in a comparative perspective, but the main focus will be on the UK.

- Brief history of immigration in the 20th century. 'Push' and 'pull' factors affecting immigration.

- Ethnic minorities in the labour market. Discrimination. - The second generation of immigrants in the educational system and labour market. ‘Segmented assimilation’.

- Immigrants and ethnic minorities in the political system.

- Public attitudes to immigrants and immigration.

- Immigration policy.

- Computer lab sessions introduce students to survey data analysis with R, covering the following topics:

- Measurement and data sets. Variables and observations. Measurement scales.

- Distributions. Mean, median, variance. Frequency tables.

- Data visualisation.

- Contingency tables.

- Statistical inference.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

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.

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.

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

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.

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