Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Paul Byron
Contact via 98506779
W6A 823
Tutor
Siobhan Irving
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp at 100 level or above including (3cp from SOC or SSC or SSCI or GEN units at 200 level)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
In this unit we look at intimacy in its various forms, and its importance as a basis of interaction for personal relationships, family and friendship. When we think about intimacy we tend to imagine it primarily in terms of feelings: understanding and feeling understood; loving and feeling loved; supporting and feeling supported; feeling able to be yourself, to let go, to enjoy someone's company, closeness, comfort. This unit, then, is also an invitation to think outside these psychological categories and to exercise your sociological imagination. We focus on the contested nature of sociology's contemporary interest in the intimate sphere. We turn to history to enable considered reflection upon present-day experiences. For contemporary love relationships, friendships and the ways in which family members interact, are subject to material and ideological changes that have their source in the beginnings of modernity.
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Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Participation | 10% | No | Ongoing |
Essay 1: Critical Review | 20% | No | Week 4 (24 March) |
Essay 2: Literature Review | 30% | No | Week 8 (5 May) |
Essay 3: Major Essay | 40% | No | Week 13 (9 June) |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 10%
Attend and actively participate in tutorials.
Due: Week 4 (24 March)
Weighting: 20%
Choose one TEDx video clip posted in the Assessment section on your SOC315 iLearn page.
Reflect on what the presenter has to say about intimacy.
Critically engage with the presentation by using what you’ve learned in the unit about intimacy so far, drawing upon lecture and reading materials.
Minimum references: 3 (your chosen clip and course readings). You may draw upon other references too, if necessary.
To reference the video write, for example: Timmerman, T. 2016, 'Virtual Intimacy'. To reference in-text write, for example: (Timmermans 2016, 11:06). (referring to the time a statement begins).
Word count: 700 (including references)
Submit assignment through turnitin.
Please use a size 12 font and double spacing.
Refer to the Sociology referencing guide on iLearn for referencing style.
Due: Week 8 (5 May)
Weighting: 30%
This Literature Review will inform your Major Essay due in Week 13.
Choose an essay question from the list of suggested questions (available on iLearn from Week 4)
OR
Write your own question that relates to one weekly topic from this course.
If you write your own question, this must be approved by your tutor in your Week 5 tutorial.
Word count: 1200 (including references)
Submit assignment through turnitin.
Please use a size 12 font and double spacing.
Refer to the Sociology referencing guide on iLearn for referencing style.
Due: Week 13 (9 June)
Weighting: 40%
Using the literature you have gathered for your Literature Review (Essay 2), as well as feedback you received from this assignment, respond to your chosen essay question.
Your question must remain the same as for Essay 2, unless a modified question has been suggested/approved by your tutor.
Word count: 2000 (including references)
Submit assignment through turnitin.
Please use a size 12 font and double spacing.
Refer to the Sociology referencing guide on iLearn for referencing style.
The unit will be delivered as 1x2 hour weekly lectures and 1 hour weekly tutorials.
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02/03/2017 | Corrected essay due dates. Added tutor information. |