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Module Title LI Equalities and Discrimination: Concepts, Theories and Policies
SchoolSchool of Social Policy
Department Soc Policy, Sociology & Crimin
Module Code 08 26860
Module Lead Chris Allen
Level Intermediate Level
Credits 20
Semester Full Term
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions None
Contact Hours Lecture-20 hours
Seminar-20 hours
Guided independent study-160 hours
Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description This module will enable students to explore the significance of notions of equality and discrimination and the policies associated with them in contemporary society. Drawing upon key concepts and theories relating to how society is and indeed might be. This module will support students to understand how the different identities and needs of different people function in relation to equality and discrimination but so too in the processes and policies relating to them.

In doing so, students will have the opportunity to engage with a range of critical concepts including equality, human rights, discrimination, prejudice, bigotry and hate (including hate crime). Students will explore both the historical and contemporary role that key markers of discrimination including ‘race’, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and religion amongst others have had on the shaping and influencing of race relations, equalities and human rights policies and legislation. Likewise, students will have the opportunity to examine a number of important social, political and/or policy events that have had significant influence on the construction and function of different markers of discrimination or the policies designed to tackle them.
Learning Outcomes By the end of the module students should be able to:
  • Demonstrate knowledge of key concepts and theories relating to equality, discrimination and prejudice as also key markers of discrimination including racism, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia among others
  • Critically analyse the role of different markers of discrimination in the historical and contemporary development of race relations, equalities and human rights policies and legislation
  • Examine particular areas of policy which contemporarily influence the construction and function of different markers of discrimination in the public and political spaces
Assessment 26860-01 : 3000 word essay : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions Assessments:
Essay: 3,000 words (100% of the mark)

Reassessment: 3,000 word essay
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