Undergraduate Course: Race And Ethnicity (SCIL10071)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Sociology |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course provides an in-depth and critical analysis of 'race' and ethnicity. In so doing the course will explore differing theoretical explanations of 'race' and ethnicity, and critically compare actual manifestations in different social settings. The course will also investigate the relationships between 'race', ethnicity, identity and wider social processes such as changing ideas about and experiences of racism, ethnicity, gender, migration, social mobility, immigration, and social justice. The course is multi-disciplinary in perspective and will draw on work from across sociological, political, historical, economic and anthropological ways of thinking about and conceptualising 'race' and ethnicity. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | Lecture | 1-11 | | 09:00 - 10:50 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 09:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. Lecture - Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completing the course students should be able to:
1. Understand major concepts, issues and debates concerned with 'race' and ethnicity;
2. Engage with differing theoretical ideas regarding 'race' and ethnicity;
3. Compare manifestations of 'race' and ethnicity in different social settings;
4. Analyse the ways in which 'race' and ethnicity interact with other sociological processes around intersectional ways of thinking about identity matters;
5. Understand the intersections of 'race' and ethnicity across a variety of historical and comparative contexts;
6. Think and articulate from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
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Assessment Information
| 25% short essay and 75% long essay |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Liliana Riga
Tel: (0131 6)51 1853
Email: l.riga@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sue Renton
Tel: (0131 6)50 6958
Email: Sue.Renton@ed.ac.uk |
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