Order and Disorder A: Understanding Law, Politics and Sociology (LPS01)

15 credits, Level 3 (sub-degree)

Autumn teaching

In this module, you’ll learn about the state, rights, and citizenship as forms of ‘order’. You’ll study each from legal, political, and sociological perspectives, exploring different ways of understanding these debated concepts and their relationships. You'll explore the question of whether and how the state, rights and citizenship can be tools for the public good, self-determination and/or violent tools used to divide and control.

You're encouraged to challenge and question your assumptions about how the social world works. You'll also tackle tough and complicated social scientific problems.

You'll learn about core legal, political and sociological concepts, as well as the core legal, political and societal institutions that govern the social world. You'll also also develop key social scientific academic skills, including analysing texts, critical thinking and building arguments.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.