Module Details

Module Code: YTWK H7013
Full Title: Diversity, Equality and Social Justice
Valid From:: Semester 1 - 2019/20 ( June 2019 )
Language of Instruction:English
Duration: 1 Semester
Credits:: 5
Module Owner:: Eddie D'arcy
Departments: Unknown
Module Description: The aim of this module is to enable students to assess how dimensions of difference engender patterns of inequality. It will examine the range of structural inequalities that create barriers for some young people in achieving their potential
 
Module Learning Outcome
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Module Learning Outcome Description
MLO1 Explore and explain the social construction of difference as deviance
MLO2 Discuss the contexts and types of Social Capital
MLO3 Explain the concepts of Equality and Social Justice
MLO4 Demonstrate the overlapping, crosscutting complexities of multiple dimensions of difference
MLO5 Identify and explain what is meant by racism, sexism and ageism
MLO6 Consider Structural inequality
MLO7 Analyse structural inequality in Ireland
Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named DkIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
No recommendations listed
 
Module Indicative Content
The concepts of Social Capital and Social Justice
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The social construction of deviance
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Overlapping and cross-cutting dimensions of difference
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Social Stratification and Social Mobility
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Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Bodyism
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Social class and social status
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immigration; economic Migrants, asylum seekers refugees
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Ethnic Diversity and Irish identity in a new Ireland
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Module Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Course Work100.00%
Module Special Regulation
 

Assessments

Full-time

Course Work
Assessment Type Essay % of Total Mark 50
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing End-of-Semester Learning Outcome 1
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students are required to choose an example from their own experience of how media represent a particular social category as anti-social and deviant
Assessment Type Reflective Journal % of Total Mark 50
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing End of Year Learning Outcome 2,3,4,5,6,7
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Students are required to submit a journal of reflections on their observations of diversity and inequality in Irish society
No Project
No Practical
No Final Examination
Reassessment Requirement
No repeat examination
Reassessment of this module will be offered solely on the basis of coursework and a repeat examination will not be offered.

DKIT reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full-time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Tutorial Contact No Description Every Week 1.00 1
Directed Reading Non Contact No Description Every Week 3.00 3
Independent Study Non Contact No Description Every Week 3.00 3
Total Weekly Learner Workload 9.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 3.00
This module has no Part-time workload.
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Baker, J, Lynch, K, Cantillon, S and Walsh, J,. (2009), Equality: From Theory to Practice, 2nd. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, Hants, p.323, [ISBN: ISBN:978-0230227163].
  • Goode, E and Ben-Yehuda, N. (2009), Moral Panics: the social construction of deviance, 2. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, p.299, [ISBN: 978-1-4051-8933-0].
  • Field, J. (2008), Social Capital, 2. Routledge, Oxford, p.202, [ISBN: 978-0415433037].
This module does not have any article/paper resources
This module does not have any other resources