AMU4727 - Readings in social, political and cultural theory - 2017

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Malaysia School of Arts and Social Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Dr Yeoh Seng Guan

Unit guides

Offered

Malaysia

  • Second semester 2017 (Day)

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:

  1. Critical familiarity and competence with major debates in contemporary social and cultural theory;
  2. Interdisciplinary proficiency in discussing and debating, in writing and orally, advanced theoretical concepts;
  3. 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.

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Chief examiner(s)

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

Prohibitions

ATS4727