Module manager: Professor Graham Dutfield
Email: G.M.Dutfield@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The COVID-19 pandemic has ignited a global crisis that has run through our social, political and legal institutions. In this entirely online module, designed specifically to respond to the changing landscape, we will consider the role that social science has in (1) understanding the pandemic, (2) government and community responses to the crisis and its ongoing social effects and (3) emergent ideas for how we should we live together and organise and regulate society in a world changed by the pandemic and its wide reaching social effects.
Through exploring key debates concerning the COVID-19 crisis, from a social science perspective, you will:
- Understand leading social science assessments of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- Think critically about how we live together, organise and regulate society in the future; and
- Synthesize and present material from across social sciences for a professional non-expert
audience
This module will enable you to:
• Understand and analyse social, legal and political problems and processes in practice;
• Consider newly acquired conceptual and methodological skills from across the social sciences
in relation to social issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic;
• Apply concepts, theories and evidence to understand the inequalities underlying the
pandemic, the community and political responses, and how we live together and regulate
society in the future; and
• Summarise, synthesise and present research from across the social sciences to a professional
but non-specialist audience.
Block 1: Social science and the Covid-19 Pandemic an introduction
- Social Scientists our Role
- Crisis and Social Change
Block 2: The Politics of COVID-19
Block 3: Social Lives in the era of Covid-19
- Inequalities, before, during and after
- Responses Communities institutions and governments
- The future
Block 4 Covid-19: Social Justice, Law and Regulation
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-line Learning | 11 | 3 | 33 |
| Independent online learning hours | 167 | ||
| Private study hours | 0 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 33 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Discussions forums lead by unit leaders; Blackboard Collaborate Q&A with unit leader, and module convenors.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Presentation | 1 x Verbal Online Presentation | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Resit will be a video submission of presentation.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 12/9/2024
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