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Module Title	LI Global Issues: Perspectives from Policy, Politics and Economics
School	School of Social Policy
Department	Soc Policy, Sociology & Crimin
Module Code	08 26866
Module Lead	Chris Allen
Level	Intermediate Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 1
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Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-20 hours Seminar-9 hours Guided independent study-171 hours Total: 200 hours
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Description	This cross-disciplinary module will enable students to consider a range of important global issues (for example, terror, climate change and technology) and the responses to them at the international, regional and local levels. Approaching each from the three perspectives of social policy, politics and economics, this will support students to identify important integrated approaches in the increasingly globalised social and human world around us. Acting as a compulsory spine module for the PPE programme, the module will use both online and face-to-face teaching as well as group enquiry based learning to help students develop their skills and understanding of key issues and topics relevant to all of the three disciplines, to identify and work with a range of literature and documents and present their research in a variety of ways.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Demonstrate a critical understanding of some of the points of convergence and divergence between social policy, politics and economics; Demonstrate a critical understanding of a number of global issues and the responses to these at the international, regional and local levels; Critically analyse global issues using a range of sources and methods.
Assessment	26866-01 : Summative 5000 Word Assignment : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: 2000 word essay (75%), Group work - 5 minute digital format (videocast) (25%). Videocast will be peer-assessed and marks will be moderated by the teaching team. Reassesment: By component (resubmission of a 2000-word essay or resubmission of a videocast). The videocast on Global Issues would be an individual podcast/videocast (if failed as an individual by not engaging), or a resubmission of a group podcast/videocast if they failed as a group.
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