Undergraduate - UnitAMU4727 - Readings in social, political and cultural theory

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Arts and Social Sciences, Malaysia
Offered	Malaysia Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Yeoh Seng Guan

Synopsis

The unit is a reading course that grounds students in contemporary debates on a range of social and cultural theory at an advanced level through a mixture of lecture inputs and seminars. Students will acquire interdisciplinary skills in critically evaluating key theoretical debates and situating them in the context of their thesis research projects.

Outcomes

Upon completion of the unit, students should have acquired:

Critical familiarity and competence with major debates in contemporary social and cultural theory;
Interdisciplinary proficiency in discussing and debating, in writing and orally, advanced theoretical concepts;
Critical relevance of the theoretical debates in connection with their own thesis research projects.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Yeoh Seng Guan

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Communications
International studies

Prohibitions

ATS4727