2023/24 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 2023/24

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module introduces students 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

• For students to 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 one’s own relationship to and experience of the topic;
• For students to learn through co-inquiry. Students will be invited to identify questions that have energy and urgency for them and be supported through facilitative teaching to chart a course through a module reading and resources list;
• For students to work conjuncturally. 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.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, students will have
1. critically reflected on key theoretical debates about race and racism;
2. demonstrated their sense of reflective anti-racist practice and their capacity to articulate the value of this practice and of ‘working ‘conjuncturally’;
3. applied their learning to develop outward-facing outcomes;
4. demonstrated the skills to critically and supportively engage in peer-to-peer feedback and to share their learning with 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
Workshop	1	4.00	4.00
Peer Discussion	1	2.00	2.00
Lectures	5	1.00	5.00
Practicals	1	2.00	2.00
Fieldwork	1	2.00	2.00
Seminar	5	2.00	10.00
Independent online learning hours			175.00
Private study hours			0.00
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	Single-page A1 poster; or podcast (max. 20 mins); or video (max. 10 mins)	0.00
Reflective log	Reflective writing	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Resits For the poster, podcast or video resit, students would be asked to produce a digital poster responding to a particular text chosen by the module leader. The resit for the reflective piece will require students to look at the outputs created by other student groups and produce a 1,000 -word essay analysing and reflecting on at least two of these. Pass/fail To pass the poster, podcast or video, students will have shown basic understanding of theories of race introduced in the module. The assessment needs to show at least limited engagement with the reading and resources of the module. Evidence of self-reflexivity will be shown.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 28/04/2023 14:37:30

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