PER5015 - Understanding Social Justice

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

Social justice is a concept that is widely used in today’s society but often we are unclear about its precise meaning. This module will enable you to reflect on models of, and approaches to, social justice. It will offer the opportunity for you to engage with what approaches to social justice would look like across many different disciplines. You will have the opportunity to examine ‘real world’ case studies which will highlight the need for social justice that is informed by the real-life experiences of people livinginparticularcontexts. Your assessment will allow you to examine one such case study in lots of detail and to carefully apply the recommendations of the capability approach to that scenario. There will be a particular emphasis on issues facing the Global South compared to the Global North, inequalities in wealth within societies, sexism, ableism, and other similar social injustices.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The approach will be to encourage you to engage in student-ledenquiryand find case studies that demonstrate how the theory and literature on social justice should/could apply to certain situations in the contemporary period. Discussion and student-led debate will also be key to the approach to learning.

You will be taught using LTU’s multimodal approach to teaching. Your learning will be divided into three stages:

Preparation: You will be given clear tasks to support you in preparing for live, in-person teaching. This may include watching a short, pre-recorded lecture (or other open educational resource), reading a paper or text chapter, finding resources to discuss with your peers in class, reading and commenting on a paper or preparing other material for use in class. Your Module Tutor will give you information to help you understand why you are completing an activity and how this will be built on during live, in-person teaching.

Live: All your live, in-person teaching will be designed around active learning, providing you with valuable opportunities to build on preparation tasks and interact with staff and peers, as well as helping you to deepen your understanding, apply knowledge and surface any misunderstandings.

Post: Follow-up activities will include clear opportunities for you to check understanding and apply your learning to a new situation or context. These activities will also be a source of feedback for staff that will inform subsequent sessions.

Lectures
Hours: 12
Intended Group Size: 30

Seminars
Hours: 12
Intended Group Size: 30

Guided independent study
Hours: 126

Further details relating to assessment
You may negotiate the topic of your case study, as long as these fit with the Level Learning Outcomes.

Assessment:

001 Case study; 2,000 words; late semester 1 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Richard Playford
Level - 5
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5S1

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