Module Descriptors
COMMERCIAL SEX INDUSTRY 2 - PORNOGRAPHY
SOCY60218
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 6
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Sandra Hope-Forest
Email: S.Hope-Forest@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Resources
Audio Visual Equipment
Access to Internet, email and Blackboard
Suitable rooms for small group work with 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.
Access to Internet, email and Blackboard
Suitable rooms for small group work with 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.
Module Additional Assessment Details
One 3,000 word essay weighted at 100% (learning outcomes 1,2 and 3)
Module Indicative Content
This module will examine a variety of contemporary debates surrounding the production, consumption and effects of pornographic material including definitional issues with the substantive topic and the law; pornography and the representation of women; the alleged link of pornography to sexual violence; the legal position of pornographic material in the United Kingdom and the United States of America; issues related to lesbian and gay pornography;
censorship, and pornography as a human right's issue.
censorship, and pornography as a human right's issue.
Module Learning Strategies
This module will consist of 150 hours, of which 24 hours will be class contact (12 hours as whole group
contact and 12 hours of part group contact), and 126 hours of guided independent learning. Whole group
contact consists of formal lectures supported by video footage and Powerpoint presentations. Part group contact will be more informal seminars/workshops based on guided discussion 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.
contact and 12 hours of part group contact), and 126 hours of guided independent learning. Whole group
contact consists of formal lectures supported by video footage and Powerpoint presentations. Part group contact will be more informal seminars/workshops based on guided discussion 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.
Module Texts
CHURCH-GIBSON.C.(ed) (1993) Dirty Looks: Women, pornography and power.
CHESTER G, DICKEY J (eds) (1988) Feminism and Censorship
CRONIN B & DAVENPORT E. (2001) E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy
ITZEN C (ed)(1993) Pornography, Women, Violence and Civil Liberties
O?DONNELL & MILLER (2007) Child Pornography - Crime, Computers and Society
RUSSELL D (ed) (1993) Making Violence Sexy
WOLFSON N (1997) Hate Speech, Sex Speech, Free Speech,
TAYLOR M & QUALE A (eds) (2003) Child Pornography: An Internet Crime
CHESTER G, DICKEY J (eds) (1988) Feminism and Censorship
CRONIN B & DAVENPORT E. (2001) E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy
ITZEN C (ed)(1993) Pornography, Women, Violence and Civil Liberties
O?DONNELL & MILLER (2007) Child Pornography - Crime, Computers and Society
RUSSELL D (ed) (1993) Making Violence Sexy
WOLFSON N (1997) Hate Speech, Sex Speech, Free Speech,
TAYLOR M & QUALE A (eds) (2003) Child Pornography: An Internet Crime