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On completion of the module, students should be able to:1. Demonstrate advanced understanding of critical legal theory. 2. Explain current debates about the role of human rights law in tackling inequalities and the place of legal systems in the architecture of liberal democracies. 3. Apply their knowledge and understanding of critical legal theory to a broader, interdisciplinary context. 4. Make informed judgements about the role of law in promoting or inhibiting positive social change. 5. Reflect on the wider value and limits of human rights discourse. 6. Communicate their conclusions about human rights law, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously. 7. Have the learning skills to be able to continue to study the interrelationship between human rights law and equality in a largely self-directed or autonomous manner.
Indicative Module Content:Human rights
Socio-economic rights
Critical legal theory
Public interest litigation
Social justice
Equality
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 126 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 100 |
Total | 250 |
This module is optional for students on the MSc in Equality Studies and on several cognate graduate programmes.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: Students complete either a research paper or two assignments | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 100 |
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
Students complete an assessment plan, using the prescribed template, over the final two weeks of term. Each student then has an individual meeting with the module coordinator at which feedback is provided on their completed plan. Post-assessment, students receive a grading sheet which evaluates their assignment based on the grading criteria. Grading criteria are set out in the Assessment Guidelines, which are provided at the start of term in the module handbook.