This blended learning module enables students to explore the way in which the lives of lesbians and gay men have been characterised by social control. The focus will primarily be on the historical and contemporary social control of homosexuality through the criminal justice system and medicine. Emphasis will be placed on the ways in which legal and medical discourses have situated homosexuality as a pathological, deviant or criminal activity and identity. Students will approach these issues from a comparative perspective examining the social control of lesbians and gay men in different historical periods and cultures.

1 Seminar Portfolio of 5 500 word responses weighted at 50% (learning outcomes 1-4)
1 Essay (2000 words) weighted at 50% (learning outcomes 1-4)

Audio Visual Equipment
OHP
Internet
Room suitable for small group work
Access for disabled students
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

This blended learning module will consist of 300 hours, of which 18 hours will be class contact (12 hours as whole group contact and 6 hours of part group contact) with the remainder as guided independent learning. Whole Group contact consists of formal lectures supported by video footage and Power-point presentations.

Part group contact will be more informal seminars/workshops based on guided readings or activities, working through key issues prepared in advance by students and partly around preparation for assessment and guidance for independent work as well as guidance over source materials, print materials such as policy documents and newspaper articles and electronic sources.

The blended learning element comes in the form of 6 virtual learning sessions. 3 of these will involve the use of 'learning families' where the students will have an online discussion with other students in their 'learning family' based on questions coming out of a given reading. In the remaining 3 virtual sessions the students will work independently posting critical comments on the set reading or answering set questions on the reading and posting their responses onto the VLE Discussion Board. There will be 276 hours of guided independent learning.

Aldrich R (2010) Gay Life and Culture, Thames and Hudson
Weeks. J. (2003) (2nd. Edition) Sexuality. Routledge
Weeks. J et al (2003) (eds) Sexualities and Society: a Reader. Polity