SSJ38250

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of the module, students should:
1. Have developed a theoretically informed and empirically grounded understanding of social justice movements, across a range of historical and contemporary contexts, and across a variety of geographical locations
2. Be able to demonstrate knowledge of the current academic and political debates in the field of social movements and social change
3. Be able to apply their knowledge and deploy appropriate frameworks of analysis to understand and evaluate the dynamics of contemporary and emerging social justice movements, the challenges they confront locally and globally, and their success or failures in achieving social justice
4. Be able to grasp the fundamentals of social justice campaign-building, and demonstrate familiarity with key skills appropriate to this campaign building in NGO and social justice sectors
5. Be able to communicate their knowledge and understanding of the key issues in the field to academic and non-academic (citizen) audiences, using context-appropriate forms of engagement
6. Have the learning skills and critical awareness of important issues necessary to undertake further studies in the field

Indicative Module Content:

- Historical and contemporary social justice movements in a case-study format
- This will include anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-war and civil rights movements, as well as more specific and recent social movements such as the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Occupy and the Climate Justice movement.
- Cross-cutting issues for social justice movements, which may include the role of the media, the relationship of the movement to the state and mainstream politics, radical vs. moderate forms of activism, digital activism
-Theoretical and conceptual literature in the field that allows students to analyse the forms of oppression, inequality and injustice that motivate these movements
- The philosophy and practice of social change, including campaign-building. This involves learning about movements aims, demands, strategies and tactics, as well as their 'theories of change'

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will be provided with feedback on their developing group projects on an ongoing basis, from facilitators who will help 'problem-solve' any issues that might arise in advance of the final submission. After submission, students will receive feedback on their group project - each student in the group will receive the same feedback. In addition, students will receive individual written feedback on their individual submissions.