ESSAY 1 length 3000 words weighted at 50%, Learning Outcomes - 1, 2 and 3
ESSAY 2 length 3000 words weighted at 50%, Learning Outcomes - 4, 5 and 6

Key Information Set:
100% coursework

Library based resources
A computer laboratory with a projector for a PowerPoint presentation and large enough for group work.
A lecture room with a computer and projector for a PowerPoint presentation
Computers with Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, SPSS and Accessibility Software
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

This module enables students to examine key issues within debates about equality and the body. In semester one students will examine legal, medical and social equality, concepts of 'sameness' and 'difference', discrimination and oppression, power and prejudice, legal, social and cultural constructions of 'normality' and worth within the six main diversity groups of age, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. Having explored the legal and social issues surrounding membership of minority and often marginalised groups, semester 2 will further develop the examination of diversity using the individual body as the focus. In this semester students will be introduced to the social and cultural construction of the body and behaviour, the overt and covert regulation of the body, particularly by legal and medical institutions. It will examine polluted and polluting bodies, bodily deviance and social curiosity, writing on the body, the creation of sexual identity, transgressive bodies, the body as criminal evidence and the sociology of death.

Lectures are supported by group work sessions which encourage students to engage with key issues through informal discussion, activities and debate. Group work will be supported by structured learning materials to enhance understanding of the subject and to develop other key skills. Independent study will consist of preparation for work in class follow up of issues with reference to texts and other resources and preparation for assessment. Students will be invited to attend individual tutorials on a voluntary basis and will be encouraged to seek advice to support their learning and to prepare for assessment. They will also be encouraged to engage in peer support and discussion dialogues with each other using the Discussion Board in Blackboard.

Key Information Set:
16% scheduled activities comprising:
20 lectures (10 per semester),
20 Group work sessions (10 per semester),
2 Introductory Sessions (1 per semester)
2 Feedback Sessions (1 per semester)
4 Assessment Preparation Sessions (2 per semester)
Class work will involve semi formal lectures input, group work discussions, exercises and activities. Class work will be supported by case studies, structured worksheets, formative feedback and guidance about assessment and source materials.

84% Independent Guided Study comprising:
Guided reading and research, personal tutorials, preparation for scheduled sessions, completion of assessment tasks.
Students will be supported in their work through materials available on Blackboard.

Bagihole, B (2009) Understanding Equal Opportunities and Diversity, SPA Associates
Hancock, P (2000) The Body, Culture and Society, Buckingham, open University
Howson, A (2004) The Body in Society, Cambridge: Polity
Shakespeare, T. (2006) Disability Rights and Wrongs, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon.
Shilling, C (2008) Changing Bodies: Habit, Crisis and Creativity, London: Sage
Thompson, N. (1988) Promoting Equality: Challenging Discrimination and Oppression in the Human Services, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan
Twigg, J (2006) The Body in Health and Social Care, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan
William, S (2003) Medicine and the Body, London: Sage