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Unit Summary
Unit aim
Explores notions of power and ethics, which underpin political action and social movements, providing an opportunity to examine the dynamics that create social change. Contemporary social movements are examined so that students can evaluate their significance and assess the value of social movements to their own lives.
Unit content
Module 1: Approaching the subject: Social Movements Contentious Politics
Module 2: The Dimensions of Contentious Politics
Module 3: Structural and cultural factors of Contention
Module 4: Normative, Emotive and spatial dimensions of contentious politics
Module 5: Traditional and Mew Media in Global Social Movements
Module 6: Global Activism and the Future of Global Social Movements
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | articulate and understand how social movements evolved, how they operate, and their relationship with both democracy and contentious politics |
| 2 | critically evaluate the political opportunities and constraints that give rise to contentious politics and social movements |
| 3 | critically analyse the political impact of social movements and their possible futures |
| 4 | competently utilise a wide range of research methods and critically evaluate the validity of sources |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- articulate and understand how social movements evolved, how they operate, and their relationship with both democracy and contentious politics
- critically evaluate the political opportunities and constraints that give rise to contentious politics and social movements
- critically analyse the political impact of social movements and their possible futures
- competently utilise a wide range of research methods and critically evaluate the validity of sources
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.