Social and Policy Sciences Unit Catalogue
ECOI0008: The modern world economy 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Economics
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX70 OT30
Requisites:
Aims & Objectives: The aim of this Unit is to equip students with an historical, institutional and descriptive understanding of economic issues and institutions in a global context.
The Unit is appropriate for specialist students of economics and will support and provide a context for first year units in introductory micro and macroeconomics.
The Unit is also appropriate for non-specialist students, who may wish to take only one or two course units in economics, and will introduce them to some of the central principles of economics via the policy questions and institutional arrangements which
confront modern economies.
Content:
Growth and development in the world economy since the Second World War; patterns of international trade and investment; the role of multi national corporations; employment and income distribution in the world economy; limitations o
n national policy effectiveness; international economic institutions and the regulation of international trade, investment and finance.
Key text: Peter Dicken, Global Shift
ECOI0009: The modern world economy 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Economics
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES30 EX70
Requisites: Pre ECOI0008
Aims & Objectives: This Unit is a continuation from ECOI0008 The Modern World Economy 1. Its aim is to provide students with an understanding of the economic issues which have affected various regions of the world in the post secon
d world war period.
It is designed to be accessible to both specialist and non-specialist students of economics.
Content:
The course unit comprises three regional studies: the European Union, Transitional Economies of East and Central Europe, East Asia.
European Union: The development of economic integration in Europe; static and dynamic effects of economic integration; trade creation and diversion and the economics of customs unions; factor mobility and the common market; fiscal and monetary harmonisat
ion; optimum currency areas and the European Monetary System; the role of the European Central Bank and the problem of Europe-wide macroeconomic policy.
Transitional Economies: Central planning, operation and failure; the state of transition today; expanding the European Union to embrace Central and Eastern Europe
East Asia: Interpretations of the East Asian "miracle" (pre-1997); causes and consequences of the current crisis; longer term prospects for sustainable development.
Key texts: D. Swann, The Economics of the Common Market
James Forder, Both Sides of the Coin: The Arguments Against the Euro and EMU
F. McDonald, European Economic Integration
D. Dyker (ed), The European Economy
D. Gros and A. Steinherr, Winds of Change
Grahame Thompson (ed), Economic Dynamism in the Asia- Pacific
K.S. Jomo (ed), Tigers in Trouble: Financial Governance, Liberalisation and Crises in East Asia
ECOI0012: Economic thought & policy 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Economics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 ES20
Requisites: Pre ECOI0006, Pre ECOI0007
Aims & Objectives:
*To familiarise students with a range of primary source texts written by major economists from the late eighteenth to late nineteenth century.
*To stimulate an interest and knowledge base in the historical development of economics in Britain.
*To convey the relevance of the economics of earlier writers to an understanding of present day economic thought and debate.
Content:
The historical development of economic thought and policy from the beginning of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century to the emergence of neoclassical economics.
The main economists considered are Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, J.S. Mill and Jevons.
Key texts: Primary sources
Ekelund and Hebert, A History of Economic Theory and Method
R. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers.
ECOI0016: Economics of social policy
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Economics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 ES20
Requisites: Pre ECOI0006
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this Unit is to build on the student's knowledge of microeconomic principles and apply and extend them within the context of social policy. Students will acquire an understanding of
what economics has to say about some of the major areas of social policy. Efficiency and equity issues within this important area will be stressed.
Content:
The course unit introduces some of the main issues which economists highlight when they discuss social policy. The lectures are divided into two groups. In the first we look at some of the basic ideas which economists have used to
analyse social policies. We discuss politico-social theories and the role of the state; the concepts of equity and efficiency; the economic justifications for intervention; the economics of insurance, and the measurement of economic welfare and poverty. I
n the second group we look at some of the main economic issues in six different areas of social policy: financing the welfare state; education; health; housing; poverty, and pensions.
Key texts: N. Barr, The Economics of the Welfare State
Le Grand, Propper and Robinson, The Economics of Social Problems
ECOI0023: Social change and development
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre ECOI0077
Aims & learning objectives:
Aim: To provide students with conceptual frameworks for understanding processes of social change (in a broad sense) in developing countries and to explore the role of "development" in that.
Learning objectives: That students should understand the contributions of sociology and social anthropology to the understanding of processes of societal change in different developing regions.
This Unit complements other units in the economics and politics of development and will broaden and extend the student's understanding of developing countries and the problems and challenges they face.
Content:
Structure and agency; conceptualising actors at the micro, meso and macro levels; globalisation and livelihood strategies; agrarian change: Africa, South Asia and Latin America; urban development and social capital.
Key texts: D. Booth (ed), Rethinking Social Development
N. Long and A. Long, Battlefields of Knowledge
M. Hobart, An Anthropological Critique of Development
ECOI0040: International relations 1: A history of international relations theory
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites: Pre ECOI0078
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this Unit, and the follow-on second semester unit International Relations 2, is to provide students with the necessary background to the main concepts, theories and methods used in
the study of international relations, and to introduce them to the historical development of those aspects of international relations theory that have relevance today.
Content:
An historical survey of the main theories of international relations and the main historical state-systems in which they arose: the Greek-state system, the middle ages, the Renaissance and the emergence of the modern state system.
The course unit examines a series of important, enduring questions in international relations theory about international systems: (1) what were the origins of different international systems; (2) what factors contributed to order and stability; and (3) wh
at factors promoted not only disorder and instability, but also system-wide change, the change to an entirely different type of international system. By examining how different types of historical international systems have existed in the past, what cause
d wars to occur and what helped to maintain peace, students will have a better idea of the causes of conflict and cooperation today.
Key texts:
Michael Doyle Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism
Torbjorn Knutsen A History of International Relations Theory
Joseph Nye Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory And History
ECOI0041: International relations 2: contemporary international relations
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites: Pre ECOI0040
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of the Unit is to apply the main concepts, theories and methods, introduced in ECOI0040 International Relations 1, to issues in international politics since the end of the Cold War. By
the end of the course unit students should be able to:
* critically evaluate the main perspectives in international relations;
* understand how diplomacy has changed in the Twentieth Century
* understand the changing nature of international conflict
* understand the development and role of the United Nations
Content:
Topics include how International Relations has changed since the end of the Cold War, the State, and non-state actors, the balance of power, problems of diplomacy, international organisation, war and international conflict, nationa
lism, religion and international stability and international political economy.
A set of themes emerge from these topics that are ethical in nature: the relationship between order and justice, state sovereignty and humanitarian intervention, the nature and meaning of international obligation in a society of sovereign states, the idea
of universal human rights and cultural relativism, and ways of maintaining international order: the balance of power, international regimes, and new approaches to global governance.
Key texts:
J. Goldstein International Relations
C. Kegley and E. Wittkopf World Politics: Trend and Transformation
Gordon Graham Ethics and International Relations
ECOI0042: Politics of developing countries: ethnicity, religion and nationalism
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites: Pre ECOI0078
Aims & learning objectives:
Aim:Two of the most important developments at the end of the Twentieth Century are the global spread of democracy and the resurgence of religion, ethnicity and nationalism in politics.
Therefore the aim of the Unit is to provide students with an understanding of the ongoing saliency of ethnicity, religion and nationalism to the politics of selected post-communist and developing countries.
By the end of the course unit students should be able to:
* critically evaluate the role of ethnicity, religion and nationalism in the main perspectives of development
* understand the role of religion and revolution in South Africa, Poland and Latin America
* understand the role of Islam in different types of Muslim countries
* understand how religion challenges the secular state in India, Turkey, Algeria and Egypt
Although the unit can be studied as a self-contained module, it forms part of a specialist stream in the Policy Process and Politics of Development with ECOI0043 Governance and the Policy Process in Developing Countries and ECOI0080 Policy and Politics.
Content:
Introduction to the politics of developing countries; the concepts of ethnicity, religion and nationalism; the transition to democracy; the consolidation of democracy.
Case studies of: Poland, Yugoslavia, South Africa, Turkey, India, Algeria, Egypt and Latin America.
Key texts:
J. Esposito and J. Voll Islam and Democracy
Jeff Haynes Religion and Politics in the Third World
Jeff Haynes Religion in Global Politics
David Westerlund (ed) Questioning the Secular State
ECOI0043: Governance and the policy process in developing countries
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites:
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Aim:The Unit aims to provide an explanation of the dynamics of governance and the workings of the policy process in developing countries.
The learning objectives are that students should understand key concepts of the state, civil society, political legitimacy and authority in the developing country context, and the implications of these for our understanding of the policy process.
Although the unit can be studied as a self-contained module, it forms part of a specialist stream in the Policy Process and Politics of Development with ECOI0042 The Politics of Developing Countries: Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism and ECOI0080 Policy
and Politics.
Content:
State and society in the Third World; legitimacy and authority; political culture and civil society; the military and politics; policy formulation and implementation in developing countries; policy networks; the roles of external d
onors; corruption.
Key texts:
Grindle and Thomas Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries
Turner and Hulme Governance, Administration and Development
R. Rhodes Understanding Governance
ECOI0077: Introduction to international development
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
Aim:The aim of the Unit is to give students an understanding of developing countries in the international order.
By the end of the course unit students will have some knowledge of the main development paradigms and critical evaluation of them and a firm grasp of key issues in contemporary international development.
Content:
Introducing the main paradigms: Modernisation, Dependency, Globalisation and Sustainable Development; Defining development; Conceptualising and measuring poverty in developing societies; Development, Knowledge and Intervention;
Development and the Environment.
Key texts:
S. Corbridge (ed) Development Studies: A Reader
P. Preston Development Theory
Diana Hunt Economic Theories of Development
T. Allen et al Poverty and Development in the 1990s
ECOI0078: Developing countries in world politics
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
Aim: to give students an introduction to the main personalities and events in the international arena which have contributed to the present position of developing countries in the current glob
al order.
Learning objectives: to ensure that students have an awareness of the differences and similarities of experience of developing countries in different regions of the world.
Content:
.The emergence of the League of Nations and the United Nations system; Bretton-Woods; Developing Countries in the Cold War; India and South Asia: Independence and Partition; Southeast Asia and Peasant Revolutions; African inde
pendence and the South African liberation struggle; the Middle-East: Arab nationalism and oil wealth; Latin America: revolution and dictatorship.
Key texts:
Peter Calvocoressi World Politics Since 1945
Michael Howard (ed) The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
Hedley Bull and Adam Watson (eds) The Expansion of International Society
ECOI0079: Economics of politics
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites: Pre ECOI0006
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this Unit is to apply introductory microeconomic theory to analyse political behaviour. Students will investigate the extent to which a rational choice model sheds insight on politi
cal behaviour and political institutions.
Learning objective: To provide students with an integrative link between their understanding of economic theory and political science.
Content:
The course unit begins with a review of microeconomic welfare theory. This is applied to explain and predict the behaviour of politicians, bureaucrats, voters and pressure groups. The implications of adopting different collective d
ecision making rules are investigated. Case studies are used to illustrate theory. Assessment is offered of the public choice school's assertion that government failure leads to an excessively large public sector.
Key texts:
K.A. Shepsle and M.S. Bonchek Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior and Institutions
J. Cullis and P. Jones Public Finance and Public Choice
ECOI0081: Economic organisation of the European Community
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 ES20
Requisites:
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ESML students may take this unit provided they have a minimum of a B grade in A Level Economics.~ITAL OFF~
Aims & learning objectives:
This course unit applies introductory microeconomic and macroeconomic principles to a range of European policy areas. It will develop the student's understanding of European economic issues begun in The Modern World
Economy.
Content:
The following topics will be covered: EU trade policy and the economics of customs unions; Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies of the EU; fiscal harmonisation and EU budgetary policy; EU environmental policy; EU industrial a
nd competition policy; European Monetary Union and exchange rate arrangements.
Key texts:
T. Hitiris European Union Economics
M.J. Artis and N. Lee (eds) The Economics of the European Union
A. El-Agraa (ed) The European Union
ESML0030: German written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit pursues a dual aim. (1) To refresh and consolidate students knowledge and understanding of grammatical structures; to enable them to apply the acquired skills to the production of coh
erent and fluent written composition; to introduce them to a variety of German texts dealing with appropriate contemporary issues. (2) To improve students communicative and listening skills (oral/aural) and to expand their vocabulary so that they are able
to express themselves clearly in everyday as well as in academic contexts as appropriate; to enable students to formulate their own ideas and to interact effectively in German and to adjust flexibly to various situations by using a suitable register.
Content:
(1) In respect of i. the consolidation of German language structures: this unit focuses on the various classes of words, their declension and their function within the phrase/ sentence; ii. written communication: a variety of lingu
istic skills are developed by means of translation into and from German and essay writing in German (2) Spoken language classes may consist of free discussions with the entire group, interactive exercises (e.g. role play, small-group discussions, one-to-
one exchange of ideas). Austrian and German video material and newspaper articles form the basis for discussion and assessment, whilst improving awareness of contemporary life in the German-speaking world.
ESML0031: German written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0030
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit builds on ESML0030, pursuing the same dual aim. (1) To refresh and consolidate students knowledge and understanding of grammatical structures; enable them to apply the acquired skill
s to the production of coherent and fluent written composition; to introduce them to a variety of German texts dealing with appropriate contemporary issues. (2) To improve students communicative and listening skills (oral/aural) and to expand their vocab
ulary so that they are able to express themselves clearly in everyday as well as in academic contexts as appropriate; to enable students to formulate their own ideas and to interact effectively in German and to adjust flexibly to various situations by usi
ng a suitable register.
Content:
(1) In respect of i. the consolidation of German language structures: this unit focuses on complex grammar points and German syntax; ii. written communication: a variety of linguistic skills are developed by means of translation in
to and from German and essay writing in German. (2) Spoken language classes may consist of free discussions with the entire group, interactive exercises (e.g. role play, small-group discussions, one-to-one exchange of ideas). Austrian and German video ma
terial and newspaper articles form the basis for discussion and assessment, whilst improving awareness of contemporary life in the German-speaking world.
ESML0036: German written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0031
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on knowledge (grammatical accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing skills acquired in Year 1. Having successfully completed this unit, students should be able, at the appropriate
level, to: translate texts (German to English); summarize English texts into German and write short essays expressing a personal opinion on a given topic.
Content:
German to English translation, English to German summarisation, German essay-writing in response to text-based questions.
ESML0037: German written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0036
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on knowledge (grammatical accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing skills acquired in Year 2 semester 1. Having successfully completed this unit, students should be able, at the
appropriate level, to: translate texts (German to English) with an increased awareness of nuance of meaning; summarize English texts (as wide-ranging in topic and style as time and circumstances permit) into German and write short essays with good grammat
ical awareness and fluency of style, and to translate a dictated English text into German.
Content:
German to English translation, English to German summarisation, German essay-writing in response to text-based questions; extempore German-to-English translation.
ESML0048: German written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0037
Aims & learning objectives:
To refine students' ability to translate competently from German into English in a variety of contemporary registers. To develop their summarisation skills so that they are able to produce a
précis in sophisticated German of a complex English text on a subject of broad contemporary interest. To enable students to write coherent, well-argued and grammatically correct essays in German in response to issues raised in complex German texts
. To enhance students' knowledge of the spoken language acquired during their year abroad so that they are able to converse fluently on contemporary issues and deliver sophisticated oral presentations on topics of their choice.
Content:
Written language: (a) Translation from German into English is the focus of one of the two weekly hours. The main emphasis in this semester will be placed on dealing with texts written in more colloquial registers. (b) The second
weekly hour is devoted to the production of German in summarisation and essay-writing exercises. In this semester particular attention will be devoted to developing essay-writing skills.
Spoken language: The emphasis is on project work carried out both on a group and an individual basis, with the chosen topics of an appropriately complex and controversial nature.
ESML0049: German written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: German
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX38 CW17 OR27 OT18
Requisites: Pre ESML0048
Aims & learning objectives:
To refine students' ability to translate competently from German into English in a variety of contemporary registers. To develop their summarisation skills so that they are able to produce a
précis in sophisticated German of a complex English text on a subject of broad contemporary interest. To enable students to write coherent, well-argued and grammatically correct essays in German in response to issues raised in complex German texts
. To enhance students' knowledge of the spoken language acquired during their year abroad so that they are able to converse fluently on contemporary issues and deliver sophisticated oral presentations on topics of their choice.
Content:
Written language: (a) Translation from German into English is the focus of one of the two weekly hours. The main emphasis in this semester will be placed on translating texts written in more formal registers. (b) The second weekl
y hour is devoted to the production of German in summarisation and essay-writing exercises. In this semester particular attention will be paid to developing summarisation skills.
Spoken language: As before, project work will be carried out both on a group and an individual basis. Additional emphasis will now be placed on developing students' presentational skills in preparation for their oral examination.
ESML0081: Russian written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate knowledge of basic grammar, broaden vocabulary and improve aural comprehension. To develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Prose and essay composition; translation into English; grammar revision; conversation.
Students must be qualified in Russian to approximately A-level standard.
ESML0084: Russian written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0081
Aims & learning objectives:
To further consolidate knowledge of basic grammar, broaden vocabulary and improve aural comprehension. To further develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Prose and essay composition; translation into English; grammar revision; conversation.
ESML0089: Russian written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0084, Pre ESML0085
Students must have taken either ESML0084, or ESML0085.
Aims & learning objectives:
To deepen knowledge of Russian grammar, expand lexis and develop translation skills in several registers. To give students practice in expressing themselves in writing. To improve aural comprehension and to begin t
o develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Written Language: systematic review of Russian grammar with exercises and drills drawn from a variety of sources; translations into Russian and English with discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Essay writing in Russian wit
h discussion of stylistic points and vocabulary. Spoken Language: small group conversation on a range of themes; role-playing; task-based use of audio-visual material. To assist vocabulary acquisition, work in written and spoken language will be organis
ed around themes of geography & peoples and culture & recreation.
ESML0092: Russian written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0089
Aims & learning objectives:
To deepen knowledge of Russian grammar, expand lexis and develop translation skills in several registers. To give students practice in expressing themselves in writing. To improve aural comp
rehension to the point at which the gist of a TV news item can be understood and to develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Written Language: systematic review of Russian grammar with exercises and drills drawn from a variety of sources; translations into Russian and English with discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Essay writing in Russian wit
h discussion of stylistic points and vocabulary. Spoken Language: small group conversation on a range of themes; role-playing; task-based use of audio-visual material. To assist vocabulary acquisition, work in written and spoken language will be organis
ed around themes of social issues, history and politics.
ESML0095: Russian written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0092
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate knowledge of Russian grammar, further expand lexis and further develop translation skills. To enable students to translate modern literary Russian and non-technical academic an
d journalistic Russian, into English. To enable students to translate selected English passages into Russian, and to express ideas and arguments in writing. To improve fluency in spoken Russian.
Content:
Written Language: translation into and from Russian and discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Conversation and audio-visual classes. Spoken Language: discussion of selected topics on a range of themes (ecology, social issu
es, feminism etc).
ESML0096: Russian written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX56 CW17 OR27
Requisites: Pre ESML0095
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate knowledge of Russian grammar, further expand lexis and further develop translation skills. To enable students to translate modern literary Russian and non-technical academic an
d journalistic Russian, into English with minimal use of a dictionary. To enable students to translate selected English passages into idiomatic Russian, and to express complex ideas and arguments in writing. To develop fluency in spoken Russian.
Content:
Written Language: translation into and from Russian and discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Conversation and audio-visual classes. Spoken Language: discussion of selected topics on a range of themes (culture, politics in
Russia etc).
ESML0101: Russian national option R4: Gorbachev & Perestroika
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0094, Pre HASS0005
Students must have taken either ESML0094, or HASS0005.
Aims & learning objectives:
To investigate political and social developments in the years 1985-1991 in greater depth than in ESML0094.
Content:
Origins of perestroika; glasnost and democratization; nationalities issues and conflicts; the collapse of communism.
ESML0102: Russian national option R5: Politics in post-communist Russia
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Russian
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0094, Pre HASS0005
Students must have taken either ESML0094, or HASS0005.
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the dilemmas of economic and political reconstruction and of external relations posed by the collapse of the communist political order in Russia, and efforts to resolve these problems since August 1991.
To develop skills in political analysis and seminar techniques.
Content:
Political institutions and actors in Russia in August 1991; dimensions of the crisis surrounding the collapse of Soviet communism; theoretical approaches to transition; first steps of the political leadership; reform and politic
al conflict; dilemmas of foreign policy; political elites; civil society; political culture; 1993 Constitution; elections and party formation; legal order and corruption; local government; federalism and ethnic politics; gender politics; prospects.
ESML0103: Europe 1A: Introduction to European studies
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To begin an exploration of the historical and cultural identity of Europe; to introduce basic political concepts (nationalism, imperialism, communism and fascism) in a European historical con
text; to introduce cultural studies as a discipline in the context of European culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
Content:
Defining Europe - history, languages and culture; nations and empires in 19th Century Europe; the First World War; communism and fascism in interwar Europe; the Second World War; studying European culture; images of war in 20th Ce
ntury Europe.
ESML0104: Europe 1B: Europe since 1945
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To compare the experience of Eastern and Western Europe since 1945; to introduce students, in this context, to analysis of the political structure and culture of liberal democracies and to an
alysis of the structures and problems of modern economies; to examine the interaction of culture and politics in post-war Europe.
Content:
Europe in the Cold War era; politics and culture in post-war Europe; economic and social change in Western Europe; liberal democratic politics in Europe - elections and party systems; political culture; the rise and fall of Europe
an communist states and command economies; economic and political problems in the age of globalisation; postmodernism in European culture.
ESML0105: Europe 2A: Politics of the European Union
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to key theories of European integration; to trace the development of the E.C. from the 1950s to the present; to examine issues of contemporary relevance to European integ
ration. Students will develop an awareness and understanding of European integration issues and be able to discuss them on the basis of background knowledge attained during lectures and readings.
Content:
Theories of European integration; the origins of the E.C.; the Rome Treaty and the Single Act; Britain and the E.C; the road to Maastricht; the institutions of the E.C. and E.U.; the democratic deficit; the 1996 Inter Governmental
Conference; the E.U. as a world actor; monetary union; citizenship and "the people's Europe"; the E.U., Eastern Europe and enlargement; the future of the E.U.
ESML0107: European option E1: Intellectuals & identity in contemporary Europe
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an overview of nationalism in various twentieth-century European contexts and of the role of intellectuals (both literary authors and social/political commentators) in influencing
debates on issues such as national identity. The changes in post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe will provide a focus for the latter part of the unit.
Content:
The work of intellectuals such as Barzini, Konwicki, Grass, Schneider, Habermas and Foucault.
ESML0108: European option E2: Politically committed European culture: the end of an era?
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an historical understanding of the development of politically committed culture (literature and film) in the post-1945 era in both Eastern and Western Europe. To take account of t
he factors which led to the growing disillusionment on the part of creative intellectuals regarding the value of their efforts to bring about socialism with a human face: the dominance of Stalinism during the Cold War, the crushing of reform movements in
Eastern Europe (especially the Prague Spring in 1968), general scepticism in Western Europe since the 1960's regarding the value of committed culture. To study some examples of the post-engagement culture in Eastern Europe and Russia since the collapse of
communism. The close study of works by leading authors of the post-1945 period will provide the focus for the seminars which form the core of the unit.
Content:
A dossier of Camus's writing, Wolf: The Quest for Christa T., Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Perec: Things, Kl韒a: Waiting for the Da
rk, Waiting for the Light, Makanin: Baize Table with Decanter.
ESML0294: European option E5: In search of Europe (1) - Europe divided
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To explore the concept of Europe 1945-1989. To discuss the implications for both Western and Eastern Europe of Soviet-American rivalries during the Cold War.
Content:
The Cold War; strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet bloc before 1989; Cold War and d閠ente in Western Europe (1960s-1980s); 1989 and the collapse of Cold War era political systems.
ESML0295: European option E6: In search of Europe (2) - Europe in the 1990s: towards unification?
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: European Studies
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To explore the concept of Europe since 1989, examining the nature of European, national and regional identities.
Content:
Immediate consequences of 1989; the resurgence of particularism; forces for integration.
ESML0385: European political thought
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
Students should acquire a solid understanding of the history and development of political theory in Europe.
Content:
The course provides a survey of the major European politcal thinkers from Niccolo Machiavelli to Antonio Gramsci.
ESML0410: Political ideologies
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES50 EX50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a grounding in the study of political ideologies, namely the thought which has been central to modern political debate.
Content:
The lectures will focus on the main ideologies which have helped shape the modern world, together with more methodological debates surrounding the study of ideology.
Lectures will include: what is 'ideology'?; liberalism; conservatism; Marxism; social democracy; nationalism; feminism; ecologism; and the 'end of ideology' debate.
ESML0414: American politics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim is to provide
students with a knowledge and understanding of central arguments and
debates relating to the American political system, and to equip them to
contribute to these debates, citing relevant evidence.
Content:
The course applies the concepts and theories
of political science to the United states of America, assessing the role
played by formal and informal political entities. Notions of liberal
democracy are assessed by reference to debates on the role of political
parties, interest groups, elites and political culture on political
outcomes in America. A number of case studies consider the political
significance from a European perspective of questions of race and
poverty, judicial review, and the American foreign policy process.
ESML0415: Media politics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim is to provide
students with a grounding in the theory and practice relating to the
political significance of the mass media, with reference to a number of
case studies.
Content:
The course examines alternative theories of
the political role of the mass media, and applies these to case studies.
Topics include the Frankfurt School and mass culture, Marxist and
pluralist notions of the media, the 'propaganda model', notions of public
broadcasting, cinema and politics, the global role of the media, and the
media and war.
ESML0416: Totalitarian politics
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The course is to provide
students with an understanding of the debates and literature relating to
totalitarianism, a controversial twentieth century political idea, and
form of government.
Content:
The main historical focus of the course will
be on Soviet communism and Nazism, although other forms of communism and
fascism will be considered. Cases to be examined include the Origins of
Fascist ideology, theories of Fascist support, the Fascist state, Soviet
Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, the Gorbachev Revolution and the collapse of
the USSR, and the Neo-Fascist Revival.
ESML0417: British politics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a grounding in
the study of the British political system, including wider aspects of
Britain's relations with the EU.
Content:
The lectures will focus on a wide range of
specific topics central to beginning to study politics (parties,
institutions, etc.). Lectures will include: conservatism; social
democracy; voting behaviour; the media; electoral systems; parliament;
executive; pressure groups; Britain and the European Union.
HASS0001: Alcohol & drug dependency
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To ensure students have a basic understanding of drug and alcohol dependency; its implications for social work practice; treatment methods.
Content:
Topics include: alcohol; prescribed drugs; illicit drugs; eating disorders. A theme throughout the course will be contrasting a social and psychological approach with a medical one. A case study approach will be used throughout.
HASS0006: Core skills for social scientists: information technology methods
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: 色中色 Methods
Level: Level 1
Assessment: PR50 CW50
Requisites: Co SOCP0059, Co SOCP0060
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to basic computing skills needed to support methods modules in Years 1 and 2.
Content:
Through practical experience students will acquire basic skills in word-processing, spreadsheets, simple databases, file management, use of networked PCs and accessing remote sources (WWWeb); competence will be assessed through pra
cticals and through successful use of skills in later methods modules.
MANG0013: Employee relations 1
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites:
Students should already have taken MANG0005 or MANG0080
Aims & learning objectives:
The course has three aims: to give a broad overview of the major features of industrial relations in the UK; to explore the practical aspects of managing relations with employees in unionised and non-unionised organi
sations and to place industrial relations in its wider legal, economic, and political environments. Particular attention is paid employee relations in the workplace.
Content:
Employment Relationship: some concepts; perspectives on employee relations; changes in the management of the employment relationship; introduction to methods of resolving conflict; formal and informal bargaining in the workplace; e
mployee participation and involvement; managers, supervisors and team leaders; employee representatives.
MANG0029: Employee relations 2
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX60 ES40
Requisites: Pre MANG0005
Aims & learning objectives:
The course examines developments in the management of the Employment Relationship in the UK and makes comparisons with changes in other countries. Particular attention is given to changes in
the institutions of Employee Relations.
Content:
Key changes in the Management of the Employment Relationship; Employers and Managers; Trade Unions; Industrial Conflict; Role of the State in Employee Relations; Legal intervention.
MANG0040: European integration studies 1
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
IMML students must take MANG0059 in the next semester if they take this unit. They should already have taken MANG0006 or MANG0070.
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a basic grounding in the theory, politics and economics of European integration. Students will complete the course with a sound knowledge of European Union institutions and key economic policies.
Content:
Subjects covered will be: integration theory; EU political institutions, their legitimacy and their accountability; the EU decision-making process; EC finances and funds; the single market and Europe's lost competitiveness; competi
tion policy; the EU, world trade and developing countries; regional policy; economic and monetary union; the enlargement of the EU, the EEA and Central and Eastern Europe.
Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, tutorial sessions and a revision workshop.
MANG0045: Pay & rewards
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Students should have taken MANG0005, MANG0070 or MANG0083
Aims & learning objectives:
The course will enable the student to provide informed advice on the major aspects of pay, rewards and performance management, based on a sound understanding of the relevant theories and research evidence.
Content:
The role of reward strategy in an organisation.
Economic, sociological and psychological theories which have influenced pay policies and practices.
Concepts of reward structure, reward system and reward levels.
Different perceptions of fairness which influence employees' satisfaction with their rewards.
Government pay policies. Top people's pay.
Objectives and limitations of job evaluation.
Performance-related pay in principle and in practice.
Knowledge-based, skill-based and competence-based rewards.
Pay discrimination and equal pay.
Employee benefits.
MANG0054: Business strategies & human resource management
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX60 CW40
Requisites:
Students should have taken MANG0005, MANG0070 or MANG0080.
Aims & learning objectives:
The course will enable to the student to study Human Resource Management at an advanced level especially by critically examining contemporary theory and practice on the link between HRM and business strategies. The
student will appreciate the effect of different types of HRM strategies on firm performance and locate these within the context of the role of the state and trade union organisation, membership and strategy. The student will be able to evaluate the stra
tegies and policies of a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors and be equipped to debate these issues with senior HR and Personnel executives. The key topics covered include HRM: Rhetoric and Reality; Strategy, structure and dev
olution/decentralisation; the pursuit of flexibility in its various forms; the resource view of strategy; the distinction between high commitment management and the matching models of HRM; cost leadership models and the fragmentation of the firm; managem
ent style in the context of trade union behaviour and the role of the state in the UK and Europe. Examples will be taken from numerous countries.
MANG0059: European integration studies 2
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Pre MANG0040
IMML students must take this unit if they have taken MANG0040 in the previous semester.
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an advanced knowledge of the impact of European policies on individuals, managements and work organisations in the European Union. Students will complete the course unit with a detailed knowledge of socia
l, environmental and sectoral impacts of integration and how business interests can influence the EU decision-making process.
Content:
Subjects covered will be: Social and employment policy issues and the firm; EU environment policy and its impact upon business and communities; the harmonisation of company law; sectoral impacts of the single market and business st
rategies; lobbying the EU; transport policy and trans-European networks; implementation of EC law; the future direction of the EU.
Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, a decision-making game, and tutorial sessions.
MANG0072: Managing human resources
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The course aims to give a broad overview of major features of human resource management. It examines issues from the contrasting perspectives of management, employees and public policy.
Content:
Perspectives on managing human resources.
Human resource planning, recruitment and selection.
Performance, pay and rewards.
Control, discipline and dismissal.
PSYC0001: Psychology 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this course is to introduce students to basic concepts and current themes and debates within psychology.
Content:
Lectures will be broadly based on the question - 'WHO AM I'? In order to answer this question, we will consider: drives; hormones and the mind/body question; our animal history and the influence of genetics; learning and socialisa
tion; personality; society and the individual; intelligence and creativity; family relationships; social groups and social interaction attitudes; values, cultural beliefs, gender and social identity; normality and deviance; language and communication. Th
ese lectures will provide the student with a grounding in the major domains within psychology, thereby preparing them for a critical understanding of the discipline as a whole.
PSYC0002: Psychology 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Pre PSYC0001
Aims & learning objectives:
Psychology II builds upon psychology I both conceptually and in terms of course content. This course will focus more heavily, however, on issues in biological psychology, although prior conta
ct with the biological sciences will not be required. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a more critical understanding of the nature of psychology as a discipline and its relation to neighbouring sciences (i.e., biology & psychiatr
y).
Content:
Lecture topics in this course will include; aggression and violence; altruism and helping; social skills; stress and emotions; fear, anxiety, depression, guilt and happiness; thinking and reasoning; social perceptions; prejudice an
d attribution; competition and co-operation; the autonomic nervous system; brain specialisation; the eye and brain.
PSYC0007: Developmental psychology
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre PSYC0001, Pre PSYC0002
Aims & learning objectives:
To equip the student with the basic principles of Developmental Psychology, including theory, methodology and critiques. The student will have the groundwork for being able to apply an unders
tanding of human development to other fields such as social work, educational
psychology or sociology of the family.
Content:
This course concentrates on the progression from infancy to adulthood, but also includes a life-span perspective. How does the 'well-equipped stranger' infant become a competent adult ? The course takes account of major theoretic
al perspectives in human development, while paying particular attention to cognitive and cultural approaches that reflect recent theoretical developments. Cognitive, moral, social, linguistic and emotional development are addressed. The concepts of 'sta
ge', 'normal life crisis' and life transitions are highlighted.
PSYC0008: Cognitive psychology
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre PSYC0001, Pre PSYC0002
Aims & learning objectives:
To equip the student with the basic principles of Cognitive Psychology, including theory, methodology and critiques. The student will be able to undertake more advanced courses relating to Co
gnitive Psychology, for example on Artificial Intelligence. The student will also be able to appreciate the relationship of Cognitive Psychology to other fields of social and cognitive science.
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Content:
How do we process information
* How do we organise information
* How do we store, and retrieve, information
* How do we solve problems
We will consider three main approaches to research in this field; experimental methods: model-building based on case studies, and learning from brain damage.
PSYC0009: Social psychology
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre PSYC0001, Pre PSYC0002
Aims & learning objectives:
To equip students with an understanding of social interaction and social processes in dyads, group and communities.
Content:
This course focuses on the individual in interaction with others, in dyads, small groups and large groups. It examines the reciprocal relationship between the individual and their community, the röle of the individual as a gr
oup member, decision-making processes in small and large groups, inter-group relations and crowd behaviour. We will also examine how our impressions of others are formed and what it is that distinguishes human sciences from all others.
PSYC0010: Clinical psychology
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre PSYC0001, Pre PSYC0002
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce the work of clinical psychologists in the main areas of Adult Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and work with older adults. At the end of the course students should be able to
set this work within the context of organisational change within the NHS and to contrast a psychological approach with other approaches, such as those of psychiatry. Students will also have more extensive knowledge of a specific psychotherapeutic techni
que.
Content:
The basis of psychiatric diagnosis; introduction to counselling and psychotherapy; depression; loss and bereavement; anxiety; schizophrenia; learning disabilities; older adults; eating disorders; the context of work and evaluating
interventions.
PSYC0013: Models of counselling & psychotherapy
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce the main models of counselling and psychotherapy used in clinical practice. At the end of the course students should be able to set this work within the context of the main issue
s and dilemmas involved in working psychotherapeutically and to be familiar with some of the clinical problems that people present to a therapist. Students will also be able to formulate a clinical case.
Content:
The context within which psychotherapists and counsellors work; the main models of psychotherapy (i.e., psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive, systemic, humanistic and group); evaluating interventions (outcome and process research)
; a postmodernist approach to counselling and psychotherapy.
PSYC0015: Economic & political psychology
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre PSYC0009
Aims & learning objectives:
The theoretical basis of this course will be on the psychological organisation of social, political, economic and ethical beliefs, and their development and aetiology. The implicit models of
psychological processes that underpin expert and common-sense conceptions of rationality and ethics. The problematic nature of links between beliefs and action. The tensions between 'discourse' and 'ideology' models of explanation.
Content:
Topics include: psychological models of ideology in the organisation of beliefs; mainstream and emergent political-social beliefs (feminism, Green politics); lay beliefs, e.g., about unemployment, poverty, ethics; concepts of fair
ness and equity; moral development; elite beliefs - what constitutes 'legitimation'? Political propaganda and rhetoric. Social movements, social change and intergroup relations.
Students must have undertaken one other unit from Cognitive (SOCS0089), Developmental (SOCS0088) and Clinical Psychology (SOCS0091), as well as the necessary pre-requisite (SOCS0090).
PSYC0016: Health psychology
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre PSYC0008, Pre PSYC0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to concepts, theory, methods and applications of health psychology. Students will be introduced to health psychology theory and methods using the concepts of social psyc
hology and psychobiology. They will be expected to know about the range of methods appropriate to the measuring process and evaluating outcomes in health psychology. A major theme in the course questions what it means to be healthy or well and to have a
good quality of life in relation to health care and investigates how this can be assessed. They will be in a position to appreciate some of the key interventions designed by health psychologists for use in clinical and non-clinical settings with patient
s suffering from the major chronic disease groups, e.g., cardiovascular, cancer and chronic pain conditions. The reporting of symptoms and the management of acute illness in GP consultations forms a central part of the course. Attention will be paid to
the range of settings in which health care is delivered and the impact of hospitalisation and institutionalisation. The seminars provide a range of topics connected with preventing disease e.g., AIDS and on health promotion and education. Students will
be expected to be able to set the psychology of health within a broad multidisciplinary context in the health and social sciences. They will be encouraged to understand not only how health care is appraised by patients/clients, but also the reciprocal ro
le of giving care on the part of health care workers. They should be able to appraise the dynamics of organising psychological care within the health care system.
PSYC0017: Controversies in cognition
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre PSYC0007, Pre PSYC0008
Aims & learning objectives:
To equip the student with an understanding of current issues and controversies in psychology
Content:
The course will address key issues in contemporary psychology relating to cognition, language and models of mind. These will include: problems of consciousness and the interface of neuroscience, cognitive science and philosophy; c
onnectionist theory and its implications; the rise of evolutionary psychology; debates about culture and human development.
PSYC0019: Artificial intelligence 1: Minds, machines & persons
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES80 OT20
Requisites: Pre PSYC0025, Pre PSYC0008
Students must have taken one of the above pre-requisites in order to take this unit.
Aims & learning objectives:
This course introduces some recent research in the field of computer-based modelling and simulation of human activities which require the intelligent use of knowledge, otherwise known as Artificial Intelligence. We
will approach machine intelligence through two complementary questions: could human intelligence be simulated, equalled or even exceeded by machines? Can the machine-metaphor still help us understand human cognitive and social processes?
Content:
Machine-metaphors for human thinking and reasoning now compete with evolutionary biology and neurology for influence in both psychological and sociological approaches to human behaviour. The course will provide historical backgrou
nd, will introduce some of the main approaches and research projects in the field, and will set out two main areas of debate: criticisms made by AI researchers about rival approaches, and arguments of philosophers, sociologists and psychologists about th
e attempt to simulate intelligence. Students will become familiar with key authors and texts, and will learn to evaluate claims about computer programs relating to:
* their power, intelligence or other capabilities
* their influence upon psychological and social theory
* their continuing role in psychological and social research
* their influence on our notions of expertise, intelligence, creativity and humanity.
PSYC0020: Artificial intelligence 2: Microsimulation
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Psychology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES80 CW20
Requisites: Pre PSYC0019
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit allows students to develop their understanding of issues introduced in Artificial Intelligence 1 [PSYC0019] through a more detailed study of recent theoretical developments and of th
e development and applications of some AI programs. Students will be required to examine the literature relating to two influential developments in AI. No programming or modeling experience is required for this course
Content:
This course explores the application of biological models in AI as well as the more traditional approaches. Students will be expected to understand the applications of computer simulation in the social sciences (especially cognitiv
e psychology), the methods of two major research projects, and the implications of computer simulation for social and psychological theory. Students may also undertake practical projects in the form of experiments with computer models and simulation pro
grams, which can be written up as a project report.
SOCP0001: Introduction to social policy & the welfare state 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce basic concepts of social policy; to examine the historical evolution of social policy and the welfare state in Britain; to review and analyse recent developments in major social s
ervice areas; to introduce the work of 'classic' writers in social policy.
Content:
Services and sectors in Social Policy; 1834 Poor Law; the 1842 'Sanitary Report'; The Liberal Reforms and the Introduction of Pensions; Beveridge and the impact of the 2nd World war; the Post-War Welfare State; Thatcherism and Soci
al Policy; Educational Reform; Housing; Community Care
SOCP0002: Introduction to social policy & the welfare state 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Pre SOCP0001
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an introduction to social policy as a field of study. To examine the nature and extent of poverty and inequality in Britain today, as a means of developing an understanding of soci
al policies as a field of study.
Content:
Introduction to Social Policy; Concepts and Definitions of Poverty; Social Exclusion; Evidence on the Incidence of Poverty and Inequality; Demographic Factors and their relationship to Poverty; Poverty, Gender and 'Race'; Poverty a
nd Policy.
SOCP0003: 'Race' & racism
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop an understanding of issues of 'race' and ethnicity. To examine the dimensions of discrimination and disadvantage in Britain. To analyse key policy areas to highlight the prevalenc
e and effects of racism. To evaluate attempts to eradicate racism, discrimination and disadvantage.
Content:
Concepts of 'Race' and Ethnicity; Racial Inequality in Britain; Racism; Colonialism; Racial Harassment; Immigration; Race Relations Law; Multi-Culturalism, Anti-Racism and Education; Urban Unrest; 'Race', Racism and Policing; 'Race
' and Citizenship.
SOCP0004: Family and gender
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine changing patterns of family and working life, the causes of these, and their implications for gender roles and for social policy, in the UK and elsewhere.
Content:
Definitions of the family; The politics of the family; The regulation of sexual behaviour, marriage & divorce; Lone parenthood; Feminist theory and the family; Childhood and children's rights; Support for families; Concepts of Fam
ily policy; The relationship between family policy and other areas of policy.
SOCP0005: Politics and the policy process
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Ex ECOI0080
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces students to key concepts for analysing the policy-making process. By the end of the unit students should have a basic understanding of problems and issues in the making an
d implementation of social policy in Britain. This course has a common lecture programme with the Politics and Policy course, however each course has a separate seminar programme.
Content:
Each lecture covers one conceptual topic, including: Introduction to Policy Analysis; Theories of the State; Power; Models of Decision-making and Policy Formulation; Implementation; Street-Level Decision-Making; Organisational Cons
traints; Interest Groups and Policy Communities. The seminars apply these to topical issues in social policy.
SOCP0006: Political values & social policy
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces students to a range of values and principles used to justify the role of the state in social policy. By the end of the module students should be familiar with the broad ra
nge of principles and should be able to apply some of them to current debates.
Content:
Each lecture will cover one core principle, including: Need, Freedom, Equality, Justice, Citizenship, Community. The seminars will apply each to one issue or problem in contemporary social policy; for example, training schemes and
equality of opportunity; citizenship and rights to a basic income.
SOCP0008: Social policy dissertation 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 3
Assessment: OT100
Requisites: Co SOCP0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To design and conduct a research project on an approved social policy topic. To gain experience of undertaking primary research in social policy. To develop a critical awareness of methodolo
gical issues in applied social research.
Content:
Students will choose a specific research topic and design a research project. Students will undertake fieldwork research on their chosen topic.
SOCP0009: Social policy dissertation 2
Semester 2
Credits: 12
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 3
Assessment: DS100
Requisites: Co SOCP0008
Aims & learning objectives:
To complete fieldwork research undertaken in Semester 1. To analyse fieldwork data. To prepare a research dissertation on the student's chosen topic.
Content:
Students will complete their fieldwork research (started in Semester 1) and analyse data collected. Students will write up their research projects in the form of a 10,000 word dissertation.
SOCP0010: Social policy evaluation
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre SOCP0002
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this course is to develop an understanding of the principal approaches to social policy evaluation, and to develop the capacity to apply appropriately these approaches to policy exa
mples.
As a result of this course, students should
* understand the strategic and political dimensions of social policy evaluation
* be able to compare and contrast the strengths of the different approaches and their uses in different settings
* be able to design an evaluation project
* be able to write a project report
Content:
1. What is evaluation and why evaluate?
2. Evaluation methodology
3. Effectiveness, efficiency and economy
4. Performance indicators, outcomes and quality assessment
5. Illuminative evaluation
6. The evaluation of innovation
7. The politics and organisation of evaluation
8. Learning through experience
SOCP0011: Health policies & politics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0005, Pre SOCP0006
Aims & learning objectives:
This course aims to develop an understanding of how health policy integrates with wider social policy issues, as well as a detailed understanding of the content and dynamism of health policy p
rocesses. As a result , students should
* understand the impact of different welfare models on health care systems in Europe and America
* understand the political forces behind health care reform in the British NHS
* understand the pressures exerted on health care systems and the range of responses that have arisen
* be able to compare and contrast the strengths of the different approaches and their uses in different settings
Content:
1. Health, health care and health policy
2. Comparing health systems: the UK
3. Comparing health systems: the USA and Europe
4. Pressures on health care systems (1) Demographic and economic changes
5. Pressures on health care systems (2) Science and technology
6. Politics of reform: 50 years of the NHS
7. Rationing and priority setting
8. Medicine and the media: the effect on policy
9. Paying for care and the mixed economy
10. Evaluating health care and health policy
11. Informing health policy: the politics of data gathering
12. The New Public Health
SOCP0012: European social policy: a comparative approach
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0001, Pre SOCP0002
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces students to the social policies of several European countries. By the end of the module students should have a basic knowledge of the patterns and development of welfare p
olicies in these countries and be able to situate them in relation to models of different welfare state regimes.
Content:
The course adopts two approaches to the material. In the first part, it examines in depth the development of social policies in specific countries which represent different 'welfare regimes': Germany, Sweden, Italy and Russia/ Cent
ral Europe. Second, it then compares specific policy areas across these countries, such as pensions and health services. The module concludes by considering the impact of the EU and the prospects for converging social policies in Europe.
SOCP0013: Social security policy and welfare reform
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Policy
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0001, Pre SOCP0002
Aims & learning objectives:
To compare different ways of meeting financial need, including historical and cross-national comparisons. To examine the assumptions and values that structure social security provision. To e
xamine approaches to welfare reform in Australia, the USA and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.
Content:
The scope of structure of social security policy; Models of social security policy; Reviews and reforms; Australia, UK, USA; Social Security expenditure trends; Benefit take-up and adequacy; Fraud and Abuse. Reform in relation to
specific policy areas: Unemployment and work incentives; Families and lone parents, Child Support; Housing; Pensions; Disability.
SOCP0016: Communication skills
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
The course aims to extend and develop the communication skills of students for use in social work practice.
Content:
Various styles of communication are addressed with the main focus on interviewing, report writing and non verbal communication. Telephone skills, assertiveness, working with interpreters and use of Makaton signing are considered a
nd students are provided with information about extra-curricular specialist training available locally. There is an introductory session on observation. Students are encouraged to apply their communication skills to future interactions with service user
s, colleagues and other professionals and to consider issues of power and status. The importance of developing anti-discriminatory practice is emphasised at all levels of communication but particularly in face to face interactions with serve users. Effe
ctive non-oppressive ways of communicating with disadvantaged groups such as minority ethnic groups, older people, disabled people, people with mental health problems or learning difficulties and children are explored. The course asks students to think, t
o plan and to reflect before they take action. They are required to examine themselves closely to develop awareness of what they communicate about themselves and what they carry with them into interactions. They will consider their abilities to empathis
e, to respect and to understand the positions of others. Small groups, role plays and other exercises are used to practice listening and interviewing skills.
SOCP0017: Groupwork
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide students with an understanding of groupwork theory and practice.
Content:
The course covers the purpose of groupwork, group typologies, membership and contracts, planning, co-facilitation, group dynamics, problems and anti-discriminatory practices. Group work theories and methods. Recording and evaluati
on.
SOCP0018: Community profiling: research in action
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Requisites: co SOCP0061 for non-SWASS students
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop understanding of the importance for Social Work of knowing about the context in which users and potential users of services live; to apply this understanding of a particular example of service users to wid
er social systems; to develop skills in social researching; to test out these skills in collaboration with others; to l earn about team work and workload management; to work with organisations in the community to collect and collate information for a comm
unity profile; to produce information collected in useful presentations, both written reports and visual presentations.
Input on the purpose of community profiling; community profiling and service development; community profiling and responsive, user focused, anti-discriminatory practice; skills and tasks of community profiling; opportunity to test out these skills in coll
aboration with student colleagues in a community profile project negotiated with a local community organisation; presentation day in which reports are presented by groups back to student colleagues, staff members, and invited staff and service users encou
ntered during the project.
SOCP0019: Developing professional competence 1
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces the style of learning embraced by the social work course to facilitate the transition from university student to qualified practitioner - the development of professional competence.
Content:
Models of adult learning; observation techniques for social work practice; exploration of the links between theory and practice in social work; values in practice; methods of obtaining user feedback; core knowledge on welfare right
s; the legal framework of social work; statutory, voluntary and private sectors; conflicts and dilemmas in transferring social work values to practice; use of supervision.
SOCP0020: Discrimination & empowerment in social work
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on prior understanding of how some groups in society are marginalised and discriminated against; to understand the way in which social work practice and social work organisations impact on these groups; rais
ing awareness of discrimination to form the development of strategies for practice individually and collectively, personally and professionally, which will reduce service users' experience of discrimination and enable them to take greater control of their
lives; to learn how to evaluate practice using skills learnt elsewhere, eg personal reflection, service user feedback, supervision, group discussion, use of theory and recorded experience.
Content:
Group rules for discussing challenging issues in a group setting; reflections on childhood and the experience of marginalisation; developing personal action plans; raising personal awareness and developing strategies in relation to
racism, sexism and discrimination against children, mental health service users, disabled people, older people, people with learning difficulties and people diagnosed as HIV positive; the social model of disability and the way it informs social work prac
tice; ageism and social work with older people; learning about HIV, AIDS and the implications for social work.
SOCP0021: Social work placement 1
Semester 1
Credits: 18
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
To enable students to develop and then to demonstrate that they have acquired, integrated and applied the knowledge, skills and values for social work practice.
Content:
Development to a foundation level of the six core competencies: communicate and engage; promote and enable; assess and plan; intervene and provide services; work in organisations; develop professional competence. Also demonstration
that the value requirements have been met; ie that they identify and question their own values and prejudices and their implications for practice; respect and value uniqueness and diversity and recognise and build on strengths; promote people's rights to
choice, privacy confidentiality and protection whilst recognising and addressing the complexities of competing rights and demands; assist people to increase control of and improve the quality of their lives, while recognising that control of behaviour wi
ll be required at times in order to protect children and adults from harm; identify, analyse and take action to counter discrimination, racism, disadvantage, inequality and injustice, using strategies appropriate to role and function; and practise in a ma
nner that does not stigmatise or disadvantage either individuals, groups or communities.
SOCP0022: Organisation of personal social services
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: Pre SOCP0001, SOCP0002 for non-SWASS students
Aims & learning objectives:
To enable students to build upon direct or indirect knowledge of Personal Social Services organisations to understand the connections between policy, organisation, practice and service delivery. What effect does orga
nisation have on the development of social work practice in particular although other roles within the Personal Social Services will also be explored - e.g. the role of managment.
Content:
Values in the personal Social Services. Supervision: contrasting and comparing styles experienced in practice. Functions of supervision and the effect on learning in organisations.
Priority setting and planning in PSS. Exploring how and why social workers ration services. Is it possible for rationing to improve service delivery? Workload and time management. Recording: relating recording to purpose, evaluating records - open recor
ding and access to records in the Law. Teams in the PSS - what is their purpose and value?
Meetings: issues and problems in conducting and participating in meetings. Their purpose and value in social welfare. Understanding the agency as an organisation. What are aims and objectives? How do competing aims resolve themselves? A critical view
of the role and function of management in the PSS.
SOCP0023: Child care research & practice
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
The aims of this course are: to develop students' skills in child observation; to build their understanding of the links between child care research and practice; to consider the implications of legislation for pract
ice; to build their knowledge of recent child care research findings and to develop their ability to critically evaluate and use this research to inform their practice; and to ensure all students have a grounding in the principles and practice of child pr
otection work.
Content:
Topics covered include: the skills of observation for child assessment; 色中色, policy and practice links. Historical overview of child care developments. Backdrop to the 1989 Children Act; key concepts of the Act and their imp
lications for practice. Child care research of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Children in need, family support and direct work. Children looked after. Child protection: key points of the 1989 Children Act; definitions of child abuse; child abuse in a social
context; personal, professional and theoretical perspectives on child abuse; indicators, signs and symptoms of abuse; multi-agency work in child protection; child protection procedures; issues of ethnicity and culture; assessment in child protection; rese
arch and its relevance for practice.
SOCP0024: Legislation for social work practice 1
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of the unit is to cover the key areas of child care legislation relevant to a local authority social worker. It is based on the belief that all students must have a basic comprehension of the principles and
key facts in child care law if they are to be able to help safeguard children and promote their welfare.
Content:
Each week focuses on one area of legislation. Topics include: private law; Social Services support to families; child protection; Care and Supervision Orders; family placements; residential placements; regulation and monitoring.
SOCP0025: Theories & methods in social work
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
This course aims to set social work methods within their theoretical contexts and to clarify the links between theory and practice.
Content:
The relationship between theory and practice is examined critically and the question 'what works in social work?' is posed. An overview of theories which impact upon social work is given and distinctions drawn between the broad th
eoretical perspectives which underpin practice and those theories of social work methods which more closely prescribe action. To meet the learning needs of future practitioners, theories and methods which have most relevance to present day social work ar
e selected as the knowledge base most likely to inform future practice. They include counselling; family therapy; task-centred work; crisis intervention; behavioural and cognitive approaches. Various styles of adult learning are used and students are ex
pected to participate in small groups, role plays and other exercises. Placement experiences provide illustrations of theories and methods in practice and also case examples for analysis.
SOCP0026: Sociology of social work
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Requisites: pre SOCP0001, SOCP0002 for non-SWASS students
Aims & learning objectives:
To place social work in context, to explore range of relations between sociology and social work. Students to make connections with prior sociology learning, to apply sociological analysis and to be able to analyse t
he role of sociology in social work. For students to develop critical analysis of social work and own practice.
Content:
The course focuses upon the knowledge base of social work, sociological approaches to child abuse, social work as a profession, social work language and discourse analysis, sociology and disability, power and social work, social wo
rk and social control, social work and the media.
SOCP0027: Social work dissertation 1
Semester 2
Credits: 12
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
The dissertation provides an opportunity for students to study and discuss one topic of relevance to social work in depth. Through preparation of the dissertation they develop their capacity for critical analysis, ev
aluation, application of theory and integration of values in practice
Content:
Preparation of an outline of the dissertation plus selected bibliography.
SOCP0028: Social work dissertation 2
Semester 1
Credits: 12
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: DS100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
The dissertation provides an opportunity for students to study and discuss one topic of relevance to social work in depth. Through preparation of the dissertation they develop their capacity for critical analysis, ev
aluation, application of theory and integration of values in practice
Content:
Knowledge and understanding of related concepts and theories from the social sciences must be evident in the analysis, which should also include an evaluation of research and published accounts of practice in the specific area of s
tudy. Topics might include a particular social work task, a form of social work intervention, a particular issue of relevance to social work etc. Students will be expected to undertake and to present a review of relevant literature.
SOCP0029: Legislation for social work practice 2
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit complements the child care law module in the previous summer term. The aim is to help future practitioners to develop sufficient understanding of the legal framework and the law specific to social work to
appreciate the implications for practice.
Content:
The course is taught by specialist practitioners and academics with practice experience to maintain the focus upon social work values and the tensions between them and legal constraints. The unit explains how the law may be used a
s an effective social work tool as well as how to work within its parameters. Students are directed towards sources rather than offered exhaustive accounts of the detailed law government each area. They are expected to supplement course materials with f
urther reading and research. Specific topics include: youth justice - social work practice in the Courts, - law and mental health, - law and disability, - law and race, - law and older people, - law and homelessness, - law and sex discrimination..
SOCP0030: Developing professional competence 3: principles of practice
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
To respond to ethical issues in social work practice raised for students in their prior learning; to develop thinking in identifying and clarifying values and principles for social work generally and students individ
ually; to explore some of the ethical dilemmas and confusions raised in everyday social work practice.
Content:
General consideration of ethics and their place in social work; identification of ethical issues and dilemmas from students' experience - eg values and conflicts of interest; authority and accountability in social work; cultural re
lativism and values; values and the maintenance of purpose and morale.
SOCP0031: Community care
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
To focus prior knowledge, skills and understanding of values into the broad area of Community Care; to develop this prior understanding to prepare students for practice in their preferred area for final placement; to
understand the development of Community Care both as a range of concepts and as a way of organising and delivering social services to service users; to develop specific understanding of the role and practice of care managers in assessment for, delivery a
nd development of services; to respond to the interests and learning needs of individual students in this broad subject area (eg in relation to service user groups or type of service provision); to provide a service user focus on the delivery of service.
Content:
Flexible to accommodate students' own learning aims but will include: the development of Community Care; service user involvement in both care management and service development; care management skills, including user empowerment;
community work skills (assessment of community needs, service development, networking, collaboration with formal and informal community groups); multi-disciplinary work; diversity of Community Care provision (the "mixed economy of care"); informal carers;
gender, culture and the concept of caring.
SOCP0032: Mental health
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
This programme is designed to prepare students for practice in a range of mental health settings. It aims to develop students' understanding of the interrelationships between the statutory and independent sectors and
the importance of developing skills for working at the interface of these sectors; and then offer core knowledge and skills, complimenting clinical psychology and alcohol and drugs dependency modules.
Content:
This course begins with a focus on the knowledge and skills required to undertake networking, multi-disciplinary work and inter-agency work. It draws on students' placement experience. It then relates these to work in the mental h
ealth field. The course covers a range of mental health perspectives and social work methods. It focuses upon racism and psychiatry, user participation, community care and multi disciplinary practice, mental health and gender, working with carers, mental
health social work with older people, statutory mental health procedures and practice, and services for mentally disordered offenders.
SOCP0033: Children & families
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: This unit is for SWASS students only
Aims & learning objectives:
The aims of the course are: to develop students' understanding of the interrelationships between the statutory and independent sectors and the importance of developing skills for working at the interface of these sec
tors; to enable students to develop their knowledge and skills in relation to work with children and families.
Content:
This course begins with a focus on the knowledge and skills required to undertaken networking, multi-disciplinary work and inter-agency work. It draws on students' placement experience. It then relates these to work with children
and families, focusing on such topics as: child observation; life-cycles; parent child relationships; family support work; direct work with adults and with children; attachment and loss; children and mental health; children with special needs; child abuse
; its impact and long-term effects; assessment of risk; treatment methods; planning work; contracts and written agreements; reviews and evaluations; children and young people looked after; theories of residential care; impact of the child care system.
Adoption and fostering; the role of the Guardian ad Litem; working with families post-divorce/separation; working with stepfamilies; youth justice and young offenders.
Throughout the sessions we ensure the voices of service users are heard; that is, the views of parents and of children and young people who have been in receipt of social work support and/or intervention in their lives.
SOCP0034: Working with offenders
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Requisites: pre SOCP0001, SOCP0002 for non-SWASS students
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim is to examine and evaluate methods of working with convicted offenders within the criminal justice system. The context is practice and legislation. The unit is preparation for those who are considering workin
g with offenders in a wide range of agancies and organisations, not just probation and social work. As well as having vocational relevance, this unit is suitable for those with academic and research interests. For non social work students the unit builds
upon earlier learning, either from the Sociology of Crime and Deviance unit and the Sociology of Criminal Justice Policy unit, by adding perspectives from practice and the detail of legislation.
Content:
The core knowledge base comprises: community sentences;prison work; post-release supervision; National Standards for the supervision of offenders; PSRs; the value base of work with offenders; methods - theory and practice [with emphasis upon cognitive-beh
avioural programmes]; effectiveness and the "What works?" debate; risk assessment; working with addictions, homelessness and educational needs. Categories of offenders include: children and young offenders; women; mentally disordered offenders; sex offend
ers; lifers and other serious offenders.
SOCP0035: Social work placement 2
Semester 2
Credits: 24
Contact:
Topic: Social Work
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Requisites: pre SOCP0001, SOCP0002 for non-SWASS students
Aims & learning objectives:
To enable students to develop and then to demonstrate that they have acquired, integrated and applied the knowledge, skills and values for social work practice.
Content:
Development of the six core competencies: communicate and engage; promote and enable; assess and plan; intervene and provide services; work in organisations; develop professional competence. Also demonstration that the value requi
rements have been met; ie that they identify and question their own values and prejudices and their implications for practice; respect and value uniqueness and diversity and recognise and build on strengths; promote people's rights to choice, privacy conf
identiality and protection whilst recognising and addressing the complexities of competing rights and demands; assist people to increase control of and improve the quality of their lives, while recognising that control of behaviour will be required at tim
es in order to protect children and adults from harm; identify, analyse and take action to counter discrimination, racism, disadvantage, inequality and injustice, using strategies appropriate to role and function; and practise in a manner that does not st
igmatise or disadvantage either individuals, groups or communities.
SOCP0042: Comparative political economy
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Politics
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES40 CW10
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit examines the relationships between political factors and economic development in advanced industrial societies. Historical and comparative in approach it concentrates on the 'golden
age' of the post-war boom and the more recent period of economic uncertainty. The aim is both to analyse distinctive national patterns of policy-making and to indicate the ways in which international political and economic relations restrict national op
tions. These issues will be examined through cross-national comparison.
SOCP0043: Sociology of industrial societies 1: classical theories
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Co SOCP0044
Aims & learning objectives:
To understand the basic sociological questions, theories and evidence of industrial society
Content:
To answer the following questions: 1) How and why is industrial society distinctive? 2) Does industrial society have a logic of social differentiation, based on conflict , control, or social order? Differences in work, authority
and decision making, kinship and gender, culture and community. The theories of Marx, Durkheim and Weber.
SOCP0044: Sociology of industrial societies 2: social change & social control
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To understand the changing nature of industrial societies, modern and post-modern theories and evidence of social stratification, organisation and control
Content:
To answer the following questions: 1) Do industrial societies display common trends, even superseding industrialism? 2) What are the main modes of social regulation and social control in changing societies? Theories and evidence
of post-industrialism, convergence, managerialism, ethnic and gender forms of social stratification in relation to social control and citizenship.
SOCP0047: Sociology of work & industry
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0044
Aims & learning objectives:
This course examines sociological approaches to the changing forms of work and work organisations. Key issues include rationalisation and bureaucratisation; the introduction and impact of new
technologies; managerial and worker strategies in the control of work; conflict and accommodation at the workplace; corporate structure - ownership, control and managerialism, implications for theories of class and gender relationships. The course inves
tigates these issues in three broad contexts: the period of early industrialisation, the development of mass production and 'Fordism' and the growth and consolidation of modern industrial structures.
SOCP0048: Understanding industrial behaviour
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0044
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of the course is to give students a Sociological understanding of industrial
behaviour, showing the competing paradigms and theories that describe industrial relationships, institutions and social structures.
Content:
The course takes students through the main debates in management and work organisation theory, looking at Taylorism and Fordism. The Hawthorne Studies and the early Human Relations School. This is followed by an analysis of the Soc
io-Technical School and its prescriptions. Contingency Theory and Labour Process Theory bring the debates up to the 1990s. During the course a number of case study examples are used to illustrate the key points of the differing schools.
SOCP0049: The sociology of crime & deviance
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 CW50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0044
Aims & learning objectives:
Introduction to the main sociological theories of crime and deviance. The course also provides invaluable preparation for the Sociology of Criminal Justice Policy and the necessary undergradu
ate training for all those who intend to do postgraduate work in the areas of crime and/or social control.
Content:
Divided into two parts the lectures and seminars cover, in the first part, the history of the sociology of crime from the late 19th century to the present day; in the second, they deal with THREE major crime-related sociological is
sues: class and crime, racism and crime; and gender and crime.
SOCP0050: Sociology of criminal justice policy
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0049
Aims & learning objectives:
Current research and policy issues in the criminal justice and penal systems. It will examine trends in criminal policy; the politics of policing and police accountability; the development of
penal sanctions and the related issues of alternatives to custodial measures; the efficacy and equity, or lack of them, of the legal processes of the criminal courts; the role of new technologies; the management of prisons including the issues of privat
isation and other issues concerning the social context of penal policy.
SOCP0051: Social structure & languages of class
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aims of this unit are to demonstrate differences in structural theories of industrial and capitalist societies, and to develop an understanding of the ways in which classical sociological
theory has been developed and changed to explain social stratification and inequality.
Content:
Parsons' AGIL framework, and the Functionalist Theory of Stratification. Althusser and 'structuralist' Marxism, contributions from the Frankfurt School. Empirical issues and evidence from the sociology of class and stratification
.
SOCP0052: Theoretical issues in sociology
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0062
Aims & learning objectives:
This module examines key debates in contemporary social theory and their relationship to classical sociology. These will include such issues as: the debate over human agency versus social str
ucture; power and knowledge; language and social interaction; modernity and postmodernity; industrialism and postindustrialism and globalisation.
SOCP0054: Power & commitment in organisations
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0044, Pre SOCP0048
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of the course is to explore the themes of ideology, power and legitimacy in the context of organisations. To look at different methodological and empirical attempts to study these issu
es in enterprise and organisational contexts. By the end of the course the student will have familiarity with a number of ways of qualitatively apprehending the operation and construction of legitimate forms of management.
Content:
The course begins with the theoretical problem of conceptualising power. Students are introduced to the Marxist and Weberian approaches and to Lukes' philosophical attempt to distinguish three different dimensions. The course then
looks at specific themes starting with Decision-making in enterprises and boardroom activity. Other themes are Collective bargaining, the creation of rules and industrial legality. Worker participation and consultation. Managerial strategies to gain comm
itment, the growth of corporate cultures, Japanisation and Human Resource Management practices.
SOCP0055: Comparative industrial relations
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES40 CW10
Requisites: Pre SOCP0043, Pre SOCP0044
Aims & learning objectives:
This course examines the changing role of trade unions in industrial societies - their relationship to the state and political parties, the significance of ideology and different national trad
itions; the economic and social causes and consequences of industrial conflict. Comparative cross-national studies will focus on the post-war period, conflict and maturation approaches and union responses to economic, social and political adversity.
SOCP0056: Environmental policy & the countryside
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop a clear understanding of the politics of the policy process as it applies to the countryside and the environment
Content:
Concern for the environment has become a radical and innovative element in European politics. By focusing on developments between the passage of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and the publication of the 1995 Rural White Pap
er the Unit explains the factors which have transformed the agenda of rural policy making. Corporatist politics and competitive pluralist politics are contrasted and special attention is given to the changing balance of private and public rights and resp
onsibilities in the countryside.
SOCP0057: Sociology dissertation 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co SOCP0058
Aims & learning objectives:
Application of sociological principles and methodology to piece of empirical research. Dissertation modules I & 2 are linked units. These will be jointly assessed at the end of the year by a
final mark based on the assessment of the completed dissertation of not more than 10,000 words. By the end of Semester I students will be required to submit a progress report and synopsis in order to progress to Dissertation 2. All students will also by
required to make a presentation of their work to the workshops.
SOCP0058: Sociology dissertation 2
Semester 2
Credits: 12
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 3
Assessment: DS100
Requisites: Co SOCP0057
Aims & learning objectives:
See Dissertation I (SOCS0133).
SOCP0059: Core skills for social scientists: social research methods
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: 色中色 Methods
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to classical, influential examples of investigations and research in various social sciences, and to introduce the main methods as well as philosophical and methodologica
l issues raised by each.
Content:
Classical and influential case studies in political, sociological and psychological research; different types of methods; classification, quantification and meaning; controversial studies and their implications.
SOCP0060: Introduction to data analysis
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: 色中色 Methods
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 CW20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the main assumptions, concepts and methods of descriptive and inferential statistics, and to establish basic competence sufficient for investigative, exploratory data
analysis using a spreadsheet and/or dedicated statistical software.
Content:
Description, Classification, Quantification; Descriptive Statistics; accessing and exploring a data set; Inferential Statistics; Causation and Correlation; types of statistical test; learning to select appropriate tests; designing
an investigative project. The emphasis is on practical competence.
SOCP0061: Quantitative social research methods
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: 色中色 Methods
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre SOCP0060
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop an understanding of the application and use of a range of quantitative techniques together with complementary/supporting research methods, and to establish competence in conducting
specialised tests, sufficient data analysis using dedicated statistical software. Specific methods and tests will vary according to the degree specialism being followed.
Content:
Specific research methods and quantitative techniques, specified according the degree specialism being followed.
SOCP0062: Qualitative social research methods
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: 色中色 Methods
Level: Level 2
Assessment: PR100
Requisites: Pre SOCP0044
Aims & learning objectives:
The evaluation of data gathered by a range of qualitative research strategies. A critical understanding and ability to assess these different approaches, their strengths and weaknesses, as we
ll as an appreciation of the relationship between different research strategies and wider theoretical and methodological issues. Main approaches considered will include participant observation, ethnography, community studies, experiments and historical a
nd comparative methods. Special attention will be paid to classical sociological studies in each area.
SOCP0067: Placement
Academic Year
Credits: 60
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment:
Requisites:
SOCP0069: Social theory & social philosophy
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Sociology
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aims of this unit are to demonstrate the significance of different theories of scientific methodology for the social sciences and the distinctive contribution of the interpretivist perspec
tive to sociological and related social sciences. Students should learn the problematic relevance of natural science models for social science and the substantive and methodological claims and value of interpretivist social theory.
Content:
Positivist models of scientific method and the interpretivist tradition in sociology: Popper, Kuhn, Winch and Weber. 'Actor-based' approaches: Goffman and ethnomethodology.
SOCP0070: Social issues in contemporary Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To develop student understanding of the major social themes affecting Europe today. This unit will adopt a comparative perspective that looks at the changing boundaries social agendas in place in major
European countries. The course will attempt to display elements of convergence and divergence within those different and developing social agendas.
Content:
The idea of Europe as a social entity; EU developments promoting common social policies; comparative demographics regarding family, gender, employment, labour market, education, welfare and social policies. Comparative analysis of
social institutions and modes of approach to common problems.
SOCP0071: Sociology of punishment
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: Sociological analysis of the changing social, cultural and political meanings of formal and informal modes of penality and custodial social regulation.
Content:
Justifications for punishment, history of imprisonment, theories of imprisonment, prison populations, current issues in imprisonment, non-custodial sentences, capital punishment, studying prisons.
SOCP0072: The social dialectics of business sovereignty
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To identify the changing boundaries and interactions between business and society in relation to both the evolution and impact of socio-political demands for business accountability and the social foun
dations of business activiy; so that students understand the main challenges to business sovereignty and the inter-dependence social relationships and business enterprise.
Content:
Changes in social and political challenges to capitalist enterprise. Philosophical, historical and social structural sources of these challenges. Socialist, corporatist and environmentalist and communitarian challenges. The social
foundations of business commerce and trade: trust, association, community, values, and citizenship.
SOCP0084: The politics of the welfare state
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To discuss and assess different theories of policy-making in the area of social policy. To apply them to selected current social policy issues.
Content:
Socio-economic explanations; political explanations; institutional explanations; theory of welfare retrenchment; public opinion and the welfare state; the middle classes and the welfare state; the think tanks and the welfare state;
globalization and the welfare state; population ageing and pension reform; the development of active labour market policies.
SOCP0085: Using existing data: secondary analysis in social research
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co SOCP0061
Aims and Learning Objectives: To introduce students to the range of official and other statistics produced in the UK and EU, and the advantages and disadvantages of these as tools for social research. This will provide essential pr
eparation for the final year dissertation.
Content:
Official statistics, production and use; main sources of UK data (the Census, the General Household Survey, the Family Expenditure Survey) analysing specific topics (e.g., unemployment, family trends, crime, gender, poverty); stati
stics on the Internet; the ESRC Data Archive.
XXXX0012: Single Language Option
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment:
Requisites:
This pseudo-unit indicates that you are allowed to choose an extra 3 credit Single Language option. See Catalogue of Generally Available Units for details (available on the University's Web Site).
XXXX0012: Single Language Option
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment:
Requisites:
This pseudo-unit indicates that you are allowed to choose an extra 3 credit Single Language option. See Catalogue of Generally Available Units for details (available on the University's Web Site).
XXXX0013: Approved unit
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment:
Requisites:
This pseudo-unit indicates that you are allowed to choose one unit
from the University's Generally Available Catalogue, subject to the normal constraints such as staff availability, timetabling restrictions, and minimum and maximum group sizes.
You should make sure that you indicate your actual choice of units when
requested to do so.
Details of the University's Catalogue can be seen on the University's
Home Page.
XXXX0013: Approved unit
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment:
Requisites:
This pseudo-unit indicates that you are allowed to choose one unit
from the University's Generally Available Catalogue, subject to the normal constraints such as staff availability, timetabling restrictions, and minimum and maximum group sizes.
You should make sure that you indicate your actual choice of units when
requested to do so.
Details of the University's Catalogue can be seen on the University's
Home Page.