Unit name | Children in a Global Context |
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Unit code | SPOL32008 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Alruzzi |
Open unit status | Not open |
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will adopt sociological, anthropological and social policy approaches to explore conceptualisations of childhood, child development and children’s rights within global processes, policies and programmes and examine how these interact with the reality of children’s lives in diverse social, political, cultural and economic contexts in both the Global North and Global South.
Aims
At the end of the unit students will:
The teaching approach will include weekly lectures, seminars and facilitated study group sessions by the convenor. Lectures will cover more conceptual and theoretical aspects of the module whilst more applied, substantive, in-depth and extended learning will take the form of self-paced, material delivered electronically, and undertaken individually or supported by pair and group work in seminars and facilitated study groups sessions. Students will receive regular feedback on the various tasks for their portfolio during the course of the unit through the seminars and facilitate group sessions.
Portfolio (3000 words) - 100%
This assessment covers ILOs 1-4
Students will be required to submit a piece of critical writing (800 words) earlier in the term, which will be worth 10% of the Portfolio and covers ILOs 1&2. This will provide an opportunity for feedback which they can apply to the rest of the Portfolio, the remainder of which will be worth 90% and covers ILOs 3&4.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. SPOL32008).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.