Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Harry Blatterer
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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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Essay 1 | 20% | No | Friday Week 4 |
Essay 2 | 30% | No | Friday Week 9 |
Essay 3 | 50% | No | Friday Week 13 |
Due: Friday Week 4
Weighting: 20%
Choose ONE of the TEDx video clips posted in the Assessment section on your SOC315 iLearn Page.
Reflect on what the presenters have to say about intimacy.
Critically engage with the presentation by using what you’ve learned in the unit about intimacy so far. ('Critically’ means: use lecture and reading materials to make your points.)
Minimum references: 4
To reference the video write, for example: Timmerman, T. 2016, 'Virtual Intimacy'. To reference in-text, for example: (Timmermans 2016, 11:06). (referring to the time a statement begins).
Word count (including references): 600
Submit assignment through turnitin.
Please use a size 12 font and make sure it is double spaced.
Refer to the Sociology referencing guide on iLearn for referencing style.
Due: Friday Week 9
Weighting: 30%
Minimum references: 5
Word count (including references): 800
The questions will be posted on iLearn in Week 6.
Submit assignment through turnitin.
Please use a size 12 font and make sure it is double spaced.
Refer to the Sociology referencing guide on iLearn for referencing style.
Due: Friday Week 13
Weighting: 50%
Choose ONE of three essay questions.
Minimum references: 10
Word count (including references):1600
The questions will be posted on iLearn in Week 10.
Submit assignment through turnitin.
Please use a size 12 font and make sure it is double spaced.
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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Date | Description |
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14/02/2018 | Changed assessment weighting |