2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF1055 Race Matters

20 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Helen Graham
Email: H.Graham@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module introduces you to critical studies of race and racism and invites reflection and engagement with contemporary political debates and action. It develops students’ understanding of the social and political context within which racial hierarchies are shaped and governed and enables them to critically respond to these issues through the collaborative development of inquiry and practice.

Objectives

You will develop an appreciation of the significance of the relation between race and racism for the history of the university, disciplinary formations, media culture(s) and your own relationship to and experience of the topic. Through co-inquiry you will be invited to identify questions that have energy and urgency for you and be supported through facilitative teaching to chart a course through a module reading and resources list. You will also be supported to understand race, and their relationship to race, in terms of how particularity (of place; of experience; of potential) is deeply connected to the more general ways power is maintained and reproduced.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will be able to:

1.Analyse key theoretical debates about race and racism
2. Demonstrate your sense of reflective anti-racist practice and your capacity to articulate the value of this practice and of ‘working ‘conjuncturally’;
3. Apply your learning to develop outward-facing outcomes addressing specific questions which are urgent for you
4. Critically and supportively engage in peer-to-peer feedback and to share your learning with others.

Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5.Ethics: Identify ethical questions and use ethical frameworks; assess the impacts and ethical effects of actions/decisions
6. Relationship Development: Empathise with the views and experiences of others

Syllabus

This module introduces students to critical studies of race and racism and invites reflection and engagement with contemporary political debates and action. Students will be supported to understand race, and their relationship to race, in terms of how particularity (of place; of experience; of potential) is deeply connected to the more general ways power is maintained and reproduced.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	5	1.00	5.00
seminars	6	2.00	12.00
Practicals	1	2.00	2.00
Practicals	1	4.00	4.00
Fieldwork	1	2.00	2.00
Private study hours			175.00
Total Contact hours			25.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Through the seminars, students will get ongoing formative feedback from their seminar tutor. Five opportunities over the module. The mid-module networking session will give students a chance to have formative feedback from other students on their inquiry outcome ideas (e.g. poster/podcast/video). One opportunity.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Creative outcome	0.00
Portfolio	Reflective portfolio	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 29/04/2024 16:10:26

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