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Students will enhance their ability to
- identify and evaluate facts as opposed to opinions/interpretations
- recognise what lies behind individual positions in public discourses
- reassess the values of rational thinking and emotional engagement in relation to different types of discursive situations
- gain a deepened understanding of a range of intellectual concepts such as enlightened rationality, positivism, objectivity, relativism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, post-truth, bullshit and others
- gain insights into how music is shaped by societal forces and can in turn shape it on occasion
- understand the way in which the internet has changed our ways to access and process information, our behaviour in relation to others in quasi-anonymous contexts, and how we are constantly manipulated by it
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 76 |
Total | 100 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Not yet recorded. |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Formative feedback will be given on entries for the first two weeks of the reflective journal. Group feedback will be given after the two MCQ tests while individual feedback will be given for the final versions of the reflective journal and for the essay.