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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.
This module is a sociological theory module that examines the sociology of the everyday. Students will explore and examine a number of dimensions relating to human experience and social life using both classical and contemporary sociological theory. At its core this module questions the fundamental taken-for-granted knowledges that mediate everyday existence. The module will cover topics related to schools of thought such as the Chicago School, American Prgamatism, Phenomenological Sociology, Symbolic Interactionism, Existential Sociology, Ethnomethodology, Sociology of the Absurd, as well as broader topics such as memory, emotion, death, and language.
Lecture
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: cohort
Workshop
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: 10
Guided independent study
Hours: 260
Further details relating to assessment
Annotated bibliography – over the course of semester 1 students will be expected to curate an annotated bibliography based on the readings they are doing each week in preparation for workshop discussion. Class discussion in this semester will focus on these readings and their notes. The final annotated bibliography should contain five pieces of 300 words from a selection of texts across the first semester.
Negotiated Essay – Students will collaborate and work with the module leader to devise their own essay topics and titles. These essays will critically evaluate a relevant topic/ theory that has been covered during the module.
001 Annotated bibliography; 1;500 words; end of semester 1 30%
002 Negotiated essay; 2,000 words; end of semester 2 70%
Module Coordinator - Andrew Brierley
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL