Postgraduate Course: Surveillance and Security (LAWS11231)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course introduces students to the study of surveillance and security. The courses draws from the fields of surveillance studies, security studies, and situational crime prevention, and examines topics such as CCTV and Internet surveillance, checkpoint security, counter-terrorism, and industrial espionage. The course explores how surveillance and security can and should be implemented and regulated. |
| Course description |
Indicative course seminar topics:
1. Surveillance Theories
2. Situational Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice
3. CCTV and Video Surveillance
4. Covert Policing and Surveillance
5. Dataveillance and Internet Security
6. Privacy Theories and Privacy Enhancing Technologies
7. Counter-terrorism
8. Border and Checkpoint Security
9. Commercial Security and Corporate Espionage
10. Towards the Surveillance/Security Society?
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 25 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Two essays, each of not more than 2,500 words in length, and each counting towards 50% of the final mark. The first essay will be on a topic relating to surveillance and security, chosen by the student from a short list of prescribed essay titles. The second essay will be a 'case study', on an approved topic of the student's choosing, analysing security and/or surveillance in a specific place, area, field or topic. |
| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- describe, compare and assess key contemporary surveillance technologies and their operation
- describe, compare and assess situational crime prevention and security techniques and practices
- explain and critically assess key theories of surveillance, situational crime prevention, and security measures
- apply key theories in these areas to specific relevant examples, topics or fields; for example, to apply situational crime prevention to the area of airport security
- discuss and assess evaluation studies as to the effectiveness of various security and surveillance measures
- identify and analyse the wider social implications of the implementation of different measures, for example in terms of their potential privacy intrusions
- demonstrate familiarity with, and make sense of, scholarly literatures, practitioner materials, and official policies, in relation to contemporary surveillance and security technologies and practices
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Surveillance Security Criminology Crime Prevention Terrorism Policing |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Jones
Tel: (0131 6)50 2032
Email: richard.jones@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Douglas Thompson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: D.Thompson@ed.ac.uk |
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