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UNIT DETAILS
Unit Code:
885Z0213
Unit Name:
Activities in Challenging Environments
Department:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty:
Cheshire Campus
Level:
5
Credits:
15
ECTS:
7.5
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Brief Summary:
Indicative Content:
Develop of technical skills and knowledge required for safe activity in challenging environments. Nutritional requirements of
the human body are identified and changes necessary for increased performance during challenging activity assessed.
A challenging programme of lectures, practical activity, technical skills workshops, and a Scottish Winter residential
experience underpin the academic outcomes of this unit. The residential will entail some demanding physical activity and
mental intensity. Emphasis is placed on maximising learning, with theoretical knowledge supporting development during
practical activity and opportunities for reflection thereafter with the aim of providing the knowledge and skills necessary for
safe personal and professional travel in challenging environments.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this Unit, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1:
Analyse the effects of challenging environments on the human body.
Learning Outcome 2:
Evaluate personal dietary and nutritional requirements and propose changes to support increased performance during
activities in challenging environments.
Learning Outcome 3:
Learning Outcome 4:
Learning Outcome 5:
ASSESSMENT
Element
Type
Weighting
Coursework
100
Min Pass Mark
Employability & Sustainability Outcomes
Analyse real world situations critically
Find, evaluate, synthesise and use information
Work within social, environmental and community contexts
Method of Assessment
1
Data Exercise
Description
Nutritional Data Collection - collect data on student's own nutrional intake and expenditure over the period of one week. Represent this
data graphically and analyse it with respect to providing recommendations for variation during a period of increased
performance/endurance on a Scottish winter residential field trip. 2500 words
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Breakdown of 150 hours of student learning activity
Summative Assessment:
25
Directed Study:
25
Student-centred:
50
Mandatory Requirements:
LEARNING RESOURCES
Special ICTS Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
UNIT SPECIFICATION FOR
EXCHANGE AND STUDY ABROAD
UNIT DETAILS
Unit Code:
885Z0308
Unit Name:
Abuse in Context
Department:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty:
Cheshire Campus
Level:
5
Credits:
15
ECTS:
7.5
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Brief Summary:
This unit explores different forms of abuse, setting them in context and considering issues of policy, practice & representation.
Indicative Content:
A detailed investigation of different forms of abuse such as: Abuse of older people, child sexual abuse, spiritual abuse & selfharm. Policy and practice pertaining to these different forms of abuse will be considered. Media representations of abuse and
their impact are also explored within the unit.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this Unit, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1:
distinguish the social representations of abuse depicted within a text
Learning Outcome 2:
illustrate the links between the social representations and relevant academic theory.
Learning Outcome 3:
Learning Outcome 4:
Learning Outcome 5:
ASSESSMENT
Element
Type
Weighting
Coursework
100
Min Pass Mark
Employability & Sustainability Outcomes
Analyse real world situations critically
Communicate effectively using a range of media
Find, evaluate, synthesise and use information
Method of Assessment
1
Review
Description
Students will identify a relevant 'misery text' and explore the social representation of abuse contained therein, They will then
contextualise the representations into appropriate theoretical literature 2000 words.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Breakdown of 150 hours of student learning activity
Summative Assessment:
25
Directed Study:
25
Student-centred:
50
Mandatory Requirements:
LEARNING RESOURCES
Special ICTS Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
UNIT SPECIFICATION FOR
EXCHANGE AND STUDY ABROAD
UNIT DETAILS
Unit Code:
886Z0307
Unit Name:
Globalisation and Power
Department:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty:
Cheshire Campus
Level:
6
Credits:
15
ECTS:
7.5
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Brief Summary:
Indicative Content:
This unit examines social change and globalisation through local and global power relationships and explores the area
through social science approaches.
The unit examines issues, such as abuse of power and human rights; work and trade; migration and displacement; the role of
non-governmental organisations; gender relationships in global perspective, world health and wellbeing and war, conflict and
power. Students are provided with opportunities to focus on specific country or regional issues.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this Unit, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1:
Assess issues of diversity and cultural difference in global perspective
Learning Outcome 2:
Critically evaluate global issues relating to human rights, abuse and inequality
Learning Outcome 3:
Learning Outcome 4:
Learning Outcome 5:
ASSESSMENT
Element
Type
Weighting
Min Pass Mark
Employability & Sustainability Outcomes
Coursework
100
40
Engage with stakeholder/interdisciplinary perspectives
Find, evaluate, synthesise and use information
Analyse real world situations critically
Method of Assessment
1
Report
Description
A report of 2,500 words. This report will be on a topic chosen by the student, in consultation with the tutor, around the issues examined
in the second term which normally include : gender and global power issues; health and wellbeing in global context; war and conflict;
understanding rural and urban issues; case studies of specific countries/regions and the impact of processes of globalisation.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Breakdown of 150 hours of student learning activity
Summative Assessment:
25
Directed Study:
25
Student-centred:
50
Mandatory Requirements:
LEARNING RESOURCES
Special ICTS Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
UNIT SPECIFICATION FOR
EXCHANGE AND STUDY ABROAD
UNIT DETAILS
Unit Code:
886Z0308
Unit Name:
Childhood and Youth in Context
Department:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty:
Cheshire Campus
Level:
6
Credits:
15
ECTS:
7.5
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Brief Summary:
Indicative Content:
This multi-disciplinary unit draws upon relevant perspectives from Sociology, Social Policy, Social Anthropology and Human
Geography to explore key aspects of children and young people's lived experiences in local, national and global contexts.
Underpinned by various theoretical and ideological concepts and debates within the social and political sciences, this unit
explores some of the diverse social, economic and political contexts in which children and young people are situated, affected
by and belong to. Students gain knowledge of the different contexts affecting the lives of children and young people through a
consideration of social and cultural differences as well as global economic and political factors. Example topic areas include
the globalisation of childhood and youth; young people's political participation; family and kinship; gender and sexuality;
education and schooling; and work and labour
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this Unit, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1:
critically analyse social and political scientific theory in the context of the diverse lived experiences of
Learning Outcome 2:
critically evaluate research evidence on contemporary issues affecting children and young people in a global
Learning Outcome 3:
evaluate the lived experiences of children and young people in differing social, cultural, economic and
Learning Outcome 4:
Learning Outcome 5:
ASSESSMENT
Element
Type
Weighting
Coursework
100
Min Pass Mark
Employability & Sustainability Outcomes
Analyse real world situations critically
Find, evaluate, synthesise and use information
Method of Assessment
Essay
1
Description
2000 word essay on a contemporary issue affecting children and young people in a global context. The essay will draw on taught
material and student independent learning providing references to relevant academic resources and `real world' examples. The essay
will use appropriate theory to situate and evaluate the contemporary childhood and youth issue. Students will be expected to critically
analyse the applicability of the theoretical resources used. Students will be prepared for this summative assessment through lecture
material, seminar activities and formative feedback.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Breakdown of 150 hours of student learning activity
Summative Assessment:
25
Directed Study:
25
Student-centred:
50
Mandatory Requirements:
UNIT SPECIFICATION FOR
EXCHANGE AND STUDY ABROAD
UNIT DETAILS
Unit Code:
886Z0417
Unit Name:
Creating Childhood: Childrens Literature
Department:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty:
Cheshire Campus
Level:
6
Credits:
15
ECTS:
7.5
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Brief Summary:
Indicative Content:
This unit is a fast-paced survey of English literature written for children. Placing particular emphasis on the
cultural construction of the child through texts, the unit considers a selection of texts over time.
Beginning with a brief history of publishing and English children's relationship to texts, this unit explores a
range of texts, from the canonical such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Treasure Island, through to
popular contemporary novels such as the Tracy Beaker and Harry Potter series. As a level 6 unit, it demands
that students undertake a greater volume of reading than on earlier units. Through the oral presentation, it
requires students to work in groups teach each other; through the portfolio, it requires students to engage in
critical, reflective practice.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this Unit, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1:
Summarise key, recurring features of literature for children and relate these to indicative texts;
Learning Outcome 2:
Construct an argument suggesting ways texts for children relate to their historical and cultural contexts;
Learning Outcome 3:
Synthesis ways texts for children construct the notion of childhood;
Learning Outcome 4:
Produce a portfolio in which they reflectively consider themselves as readers of literature for children and as
Learning Outcome 5:
ASSESSMENT
Element
Type
Weighting
Coursework
1
100
Min Pass Mark
Employability & Sustainability Outcomes
Manage own professional development reflectively
Demonstrate professionalism and ethical awareness
Find, evaluate, synthesise and use information
Use systems and scenario thinking
Engage with stakeholder/interdisciplinary perspectives
Method of Assessment
Portfolio
Description
Produce a portfolio in which they reflectively consider themselves as readers of literature for children and as intermediaries
who might share literature with children through careers (teachers, journalists, academics, librarians, writers...).
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Breakdown of 150 hours of student learning activity
Summative Assessment:
25
Directed Study:
25
Student-centred:
50
Mandatory Requirements:
UNIT SPECIFICATION FOR
EXCHANGE AND STUDY ABROAD
UNIT DETAILS
Unit Code:
886Z0418
Unit Name:
GENRE LITERATURE
Department:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty:
Cheshire Campus
Level:
6
Credits:
15
ECTS:
7.5
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Brief Summary:
This unit analyses the key features, historical forms and cultural significances of genre literature.
Indicative Content:
This unit will focus on one or two literary genres per year. The specific genres might include romance,
detective fiction, gothic, science fiction, lifewriting, collaborative fiction, landscape literature, or other genres.
Through close reading of selected texts and engagement with current critical work, students will study the
forms, literary devices and ideological concerns of the focal genre(s). Themes for analysis will depend on the
genre covered, but may include: genre and cultural fields, genre and gender theory, genre and structuralist
models of analysis, genre and empire, genre as critique, genre and history, genre and sustainability. The
reading list will differ from year to year, depending on the genre(s) taught.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this Unit, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1:
Summarise the main features and developments of the genre(s) studied.
Learning Outcome 2:
Compose a critical analysis of (a) representative piece(s) of genre literature.
Learning Outcome 3:
Formulate an argument explaining how genre literature responds to cultural and historical contexts.
Learning Outcome 4:
Learning Outcome 5:
ASSESSMENT
Element
Type
Weighting
Coursework
100
Min Pass Mark
Employability & Sustainability Outcomes
Demonstrate professionalism and ethical awareness
Manage own professional development reflectively
Find, evaluate, synthesise and use information
Engage with stakeholder/interdisciplinary perspectives
Method of Assessment
Essay
1
Description
A critical research essay (3,000 words) analysing texts studied on the unit. The specific requirements of this will differ from
year to year depending on the genre(s) studied. For example, in a year that focuses on Lifewriting, students might be
required to work with a number of short texts such as letters and diary entries, while in a year dealing with Science Fiction,
students might be required to offer an in-depth study of just one long novel. Specific details of these requirements will be
issued to students within the first month of teaching each year. Regardless of the focus required in a given year, students
will be expected to use at least 10 credible secondary sources in support of their argument, which should reflect knowledge
of the attributes of the focal genre(s).
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Breakdown of 150 hours of student learning activity
Summative Assessment:
25
Directed Study:
25
Student-centred:
50
Mandatory Requirements:
UNIT SPECIFICATION FOR
EXCHANGE AND STUDY ABROAD
UNIT DETAILS
Unit Code:
886Z0424
Unit Name:
THE NOVEL
Department:
Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty:
Cheshire Campus
Level:
6
Credits:
15
ECTS:
7.5
UNIT DESCRIPTION
Brief Summary:
This unit offers a survey of the novel form.
Indicative Content:
A history of the novel form, this unit begins with early proto-novels and traces the development of the novel
in English through to a recent Man Booker Prize-winning novel. It will consider such issues as the
relationship between literature and various forms of influence (social, political, familial, artistic and
intertextual) and the significance of the material contexts of publication and book history on the novel form.
Material covered might include full texts of, or extracts from, such texts as Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1469-70),
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Behn's Oroonoko (1688), Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), Swift's
Gulliver's Travels (1726), Richardson's Pamela (1740-42), Johnson's Rasselas (1759), Sterne's Tristram
Shandy (1760-67), Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813), E. Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), Dickens's
Great Expectations (c.1860), Eliot's Middlemarch (c.1871), Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), Woolf's
To the Lighthouse (1927), Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman
(1969). It is intended that each year the unit should culminate in the Man Booker Prize winning novel of the
previous year; for 2012-13 that would be Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending (2011) and in 2014-15 that
would be Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries (2013).
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this Unit, the student will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1:
Summarise historical stages in the novel form as it evolved and relate these to indicative texts;
Learning Outcome 2:
Synthesise other critics' analyses of relevant texts;
Learning Outcome 3:
Construct the self as a reader who has been produced in particular social and educational circumstances,
Learning Outcome 4:
Formulate a sustained and logical analysis of (a) novel(s), supported by independent research in the field.
Learning Outcome 5:
ASSESSMENT
Element
Type
Coursework
1
Weighting
100
Method of Assessment
Essay
Description
to be negotiated with unit leader
Min Pass Mark
Employability & Sustainability Outcomes
Demonstrate professionalism and ethical awareness
Engage with stakeholder/interdisciplinary perspectives
Communicate effectively using a range of media
Manage own professional development reflectively
Find, evaluate, synthesise and use information
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Breakdown of 150 hours of student learning activity
Summative Assessment:
25
Directed Study:
25
Student-centred:
50
Mandatory Requirements:
LEARNING RESOURCES
Special ICTS Requirements:
Additional Requirements: