2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

THEO3880 The Religious Mapping of Leeds

40 creditsClass Size: 12

Module manager: Dr Mel Prideaux
Email: m.j.prideaux@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisite qualifications

This module is limited to 12 students and all those who wish to take it will have to make a formal application setting out their reasons for choosing it, which will then be assessed by the module organisers.

This module is mutually exclusive with

THEO2780

Pentecostalism as a Public Religion in Africa

Module replaces

THEO3360

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

The module will enable students to develop their skills with regard to the accumulation, organisation and presentation of information, through an evolving project designed to provide a religious map of Leeds, developed by TRS in partnership with local community agencies.

By the end of the module students will have:
• developed their skills in accumulating and collating data from a variety of local written and oral sources
• developed preliminary skills in religious mapping and fieldwork
• developed their analytical skills through evaluating the relationship between religious and other social, political, educational, and economic issues in the area under investigation
• improved their ability to work as a team to produce a report and public presentation
• improved their social and communication skills through the development of local contacts, through working in partnership with local people, and through presenting their findings at a public meeting

Learning outcomes
Through this module students will:

1. Demonstrate their ability to work independently as part of a large group focused on a shared task
2. Demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge concerning religion in British public life, informed by evaluation, analysis and critical scrutiny of recent research/scholarship in the discipline
3. Develop and demonstrate ability to identify and select relevant scholarly material, and make appropriate use of it
4. Develop and demonstratee the ability to identify the underlying religious issues in a debate, analyse complex problems in the literature and in the fieldwork data, and detect relevance and irrelevance
5. Develop and demonstrate the kind of conceptual understanding which enables an argument to be developed and sustained
6. Use a variety of fieldwork techniques based on a coherent methodological approach
7. Evaluate and analyze fieldwork data
8. Develop and demonstrate conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument
9. Synthesize material from disparate sources and make connections between different fields of study as they relate to the area being researched
10. Develop and demonstrate understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of studies of religion in contemporary British public life
11. Develop and demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project
12. Develop and demonstrate appreciation of the complexity of different mentalities, social behaviours and aesthetic responses, and of the ways they have been shaped by beliefs and values, and how beliefs, sacred texts and art forms have been shaped by society and politics
13. Develop and demonstrate sensitivity to the issues of multiple and conflicting interpretations of concepts, language and symbols, texts and traditions in communities
14. Develop and demonstrate capacity for avoidance of simplistic, literalising or doctrinaire explanations
15. Develop and demonstrate appreciation of the interconnectedness of and internal tensions within a system of beliefs and practices especially as practiced in a local community
16. Demonstrate ability to give a clear and accurate account of their project in a community presentations, marshalling material and arguments in a mature way and engaging in debate and dialogue with respect for any different viewpoints which might be expressed
17. Develop and demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, using oral presentation, academic writing, and writing for the public

Skills outcomes
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire:
- self-discipline, self-direction, attention to detail and independence of mind alongside listening, reasoned empathetic evaluatory, critical evaluatory and decision-making skills;
- the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment in a plural society related to the area(s) studied (ie Communication, Group Work, Problem Solving, IT, evaluation of different sorts of evidence and the construction of argument, writing skills, including accurate referencing and clarity of expression);
- the skills necessary for the exercising of initiative and personal responsibility in a range of professional and personal situations (ie Learning to Learn, Self-management, Time-management, Self-sufficiency, interactions with others);
- skills in the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature or postgraduate study.

Syllabus

Week 1: 2 hour introduction to the area being mapped and the expectations of the mapping project
Week 2: 3 hour fieldwork training
Week 3: 3 hour group work and project management training

Module leader will attend project meetings in a supervisory role as appropriate and available

Each student will have two half hour tutorials on their individual project chapter in the first half of semester one

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminars	2	3.00	6.00
Fieldwork	0	100.00	100.00
Group learning	0	100.00	100.00
Seminar	1	2.00	2.00
Tutorial	2	0.50	1.00
Private study hours			191.00
Total Contact hours			209.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

Students have 9 hours of structured contact time and can see the module leader as often as necessary during office hours
The module leader will also observe as many group meetings as possible in order to ensure safe and smooth running of the project
Students will spend approximately 100 hours each on fieldwork and fieldwork related tasks (including shared data gathering on the area being studied)
Approximately 100 hours will be spent in group learning which will consists of group meetings, group preparation of the final community report, and group preparation and delivery of the final community presentation
Approximately 191 hours per student will be spent on writing of the individual research report, on a topic agreed by the group

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

After the initial training each student will have two half hour supervisions on their individual reports where the module leader will be able to assess and comment on progress. The module leader will also attend group meetings as appropriate to monitor group and individual progress. Students will be able to submit drafts of their individual reports for detailed feedback.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay or Dissertation	6000 word individual report	70.00
Group Project	1000 word group report with directory	15.00
Presentation	Group presentation to local community	15.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Resit for either the community report or the presentation will be a 2000 word account of the local impact of the Religious Mapping Project. If both group tasks require a resit then a further 2000 word account of the local impact of the Community Religions Project will be required.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 25/01/2018

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