Social Justice and Activism - units 2024/25
In the pursuit of social justice and effective activism, the first step is to understand the problem - to identify what, where and why systems are breaking down, societies are fracturing, and prejudice is proliferating. The next step is to learn about how to effect change from within and outside these systems, through examples from around the world and across history.
This study theme brings together these two things, with units on the study of society, governments, and mindsets or worldviews, and those focused more centrally on activism, be it through policy-making, protest, or cultural transformation.
You will find units on:
- Black humanities, race & ethnicity
- class
- gender & sexuality
- crime and the justice system
- political frameworks
- policy development
- migration & citizenship
This theme is available for General Pathway students. You can choose as many (or as few) units from this study theme as you like. There are no requirements to pick units only within this list.
Pre-requisites
- Year 1 – units suitable for all students.
- Year 2 – for students with some university study in a relevant discipline (see below for details of the related discipline for each unit).
- Year 3 – for students with a strong background of study in a relevant discipline (see below for details of the related discipline for each unit).
Feature units
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City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change (TB2) – UNIV10005
What does it mean to be a Global Citizen? To be part of a global community? These are the kinds of questions you’ll explore in this unit.
Year 1
Pre-requisites: suitable for all students.
Teaching Block 1
- Education, Climate Change and Social Justice - EDUC10008 (Education)
- Key Concepts, Theories and Ideologies in Social Policy - SPOL10033 (Policy Studies)
- Logic and Critical Thinking - PHIL10032 (Philosophy)
- Reading Identities - ENGL10062 (English Literature)
- Representations of Crime and Harm - SPOL10037 (Policy Studies)
- Social Identities and Divisions - SOCI10007 (Sociology)
- Understanding Crime, Harm and Society - SPOL10020 (Policy Studies)
- World in Crisis? - GEOG16001 (Geographical Sciences)
Teaching Block 2
- Collective Action and Policy Change - SPOL10040 (Policy Studies)
- Creative Futures: Tools for Changing the World - UNIV10007 (University-wide)
- Decolonise the Future! - UNIV10009 (University-wide)
- ‘Fight the Power’: Democracy and Protest - HIST10068 (History)
- Gender and the Modern World - HIST10069 (History)
- Global Challenges - SPOL10041 (Policy Studies)
- Globalisation and Development - ECON10053 (Economics)
- Logic and Critical Thinking - PHIL10032 (Philosophy)
- Representations: This is not my America - HUMS10014 (Faculty of Arts)
- Responding to Crime and Social Harm - SPOL10031 (Policy Studies)
- Segregation and Inequality in International Perspective - SPOL10038 (Policy Studies)
- Slavery - HIST10046 (History)
Year 2
Pre-requisites: some university study in a relevant discipline.
Teaching Block 1
- Activist Criminology and Social Policy - SPOL20069 (Criminology)
- Africa in Global Perspective - HIST20141 (History)
- Asia in Global Perspective- HIST20143 (History)
- Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration - ITAL20032 (Italian, Cultural Studies)
- Globalisation, Crime, Harm and Justice - SPOL20025 (Policy Studies)
- Ideas and Society: Approaching Gender and Sexuality - AFAC20010 (Arts Faculty)
- Migrations of Culture - MODL20024 (Cultural Studies)
- Poverty, Social Exclusion & Social Policy - SPOL20019 (Policy Studies)
- Race, Gender, and Intersectionality in Twenty-First Century France: Cultural Production, Politics, and Identity - FREN20072 (French, Cultural Studies)
- The Sociology of Gender - SOCI20042 (Sociology)
- Understanding Public Policy - SPOL20026 (Policy Studies)
- Women and Nation - MODL23017 (Cultural Studies)
- Youth, Sexualities and Gendered Violence - SPOL22023 (Policy Studies)
Teaching Block 2
- A Sociology of Crime and Justice - SOCI20073 (Sociology)
- Black British Literature - ENGL20041 (English Literature)
- Cinema & Revolution - MODL20020 (Cultural Studies)
- Decolonisation - HIST20116 (History)
- Ethics - PHIL20011 (Philosophy)
- Global Justice - POLI20010 (Politics)
- NGO Development & Practice - POLI20004 (Politics)
- Philosophy, Social Theory and Geography - GEOG25110 (Geographical Sciences)
- Politics of Performance - THTR20005 (Theatre)
- Popular Representation and Institutions of Culture - MODL20026 (Cultural Studies)
- Social Policy and Development - SPOL20050 (Policy Studies)
- The Politics of the Past - HIST20144 (History)
- The Public Role of the Historian - HIST20145 (History)
- Youth Justice - SPOL20022 (Policy Studies)
Year 3
Pre-requisities: strong background of study in a relevant discipline.
Teaching Block 1
- Gender, Race and Identity in Economics - ECON30011 (Economics)
- Indigenous Histories in Latin America - HISP30106 (Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies)
- Latin American Futurisms - HISP30103 (Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies)
- Literatures of Decolonisation - ENGL30147 (English Literature)
- Memory - HIST30113 (History)
- Modernism and the 'Black Atlantic' - HART30048 (History of Art)
- Organisational Crime and Corruption - EFIM30047 (Management, Business School)
- Race, the State and Education - EDUC30051 (Education)
- Representing HIV/AIDS - ENGL30141 (English Literature)
- The Ethics of Migration and Citizenship - PHIL30118 (Philosophy)
- Urban Inequality - GEOG30044 (Geographical Sciences)
Teaching Block 2
- Caribbean Literature - ENGL30148 (English Literature)
- Economics of Developing Countries - ECON30071 (Economics)
- Feminist Philosophy - PHIL30123 (Philosophy)
- Gender, Sexuality and Cinema - MODL30018 (Cultural Studies)
- Homing Desires/Imaginary Homelands: Representing South Asia and its Diasporas - ENGL30145 (English Literature)
- Literature, Enslavement, Liberation - ENGL30142 (English Literature)
- Modern Slavery: Issues and Debates - SOCI30097 (Sociology)
- Pedagogies for Social Justice - EDUC30033 (Education)
- Perspectives on Power - SOCI30062 (Sociology)
- Race - HIST30117 (History)
- Sexualities - HIST30118 (History)
- The Politics of Gender - POLI31351 (Politics)
- The Politics of Post-Apartheid South Africa - POLI31381 (Politics)