Undergraduate Course: Science and Society 1A (SCSU08001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course looks at the way that the sciences have constructed ideas about people which have an impact on society. It does so by considering a number of historical and contemporary examples, as well as by providing a methodological framework through which to consider these examples. Topics covered include madness, sexuality, gender, reproductive technologies, the body, race, criminality, science and the law and the public understanding of science. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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: 93 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 33,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
163 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessed by a short assessment approx. midway through the course (for up to 30% of the overall mark); and a long 2,000 word essay, submitted via Learn to a deadline date, for the remaining possible 70% of the overall mark. In order to pass the course, the long essay must be passed. |
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Learning Outcomes
Students who have completed the course successfully should be able to:
1. Dispel the conventional picture of science as pure and immune from society, and of scientific knowledge as an objective truth about individuals. Replace this picture with a more nuanced and historically-accurate understanding of science, scientists and scientific knowledge, particularly how they impact on the construction of individuals, derived from case studies in the history of the human sciences and from contemporary issues.
2. Appreciate and understand the complexities of scientific discourses as they construct individuals and groups in society.
3. Understand and make use of some theoretical perspectives that are applied to the case studies selected in this course.
4. Be able to use both primary and secondary sources in essays (both of these types of source are prescribed each lecture, and their use will be discussed in the first lecture as well as when clarifying the essays in a lecture to be announced later in the course).
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Steven Yearley
Tel: (0131 6)51 3868
Email: steve.yearley@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Amelia Hodgson
Tel: (0131 6)51 3162
Email: Amelia.Hodgson@ed.ac.uk |
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