- Course Code
- ED 1057
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Elizabeth Curtis
Pre-requisites
Notes
This course is only available to those students following degree programmes offered by Education (BEd, BMus, BA and PGDE).
Overview
At the heart of this course are considerations of the ways in which ideas of gender, power relations, belief and family structures contribute to how we understand what it is to be human and the impact of such understandings on the ways in which people develop as human beings and how they are treated in society.
Structure
2 one-hour lecture per week Mon, Thurs at 10
One 90-minute tutorial per week
Lectures and tutorials will be supplemented by tutor directed learning and discussion using WebCT.
Tutorials will be student led using a Philosophy for Learning approach.
Assessment
1st Attempt: This involves a 2,000 word essay which has the following specific requirements:
- Demonstrates understanding of issues of What Makes us Human?
- Demonstrates the contribution of different influences in the development of ideas by a range of relevant references to the course reader and other academic texts.
- Makes reference to lectures and tutorial discussions.
- Offers reasoned conclusions about the experiences of being human.
Resit: Resubmission of failed criteria within 2,000 word essay.
Formative Assessment
Formative Assessment instrument - Mind map and written reflection on selected tutorial discussion equivalent to 1,000 words:
Students will invited to select one tutorial discussion as a starting point of a mind map supported by a written reflection. The mind map should identify the pathway of the argument/discussion, and the written reflection should be organised through the use of Thinking Hats methodology (de Bono).
Feedback
In sufficient time to be able to be used by students to improve their work: (Formative feedback within 2 weeks of submission; summative feedback within 4 weeks of submission).
Appropriate and relevant feedback to help students to understand where they have both gained and lost marks, and how to improve their mark.
Face to face meetings between tutors and students who have failed.