Local Lives: Identifying Global Studies (0001F)

15 credits, Level 3 (sub-degree)

Autumn teaching

On this module, you’ll explore ways of understanding the changing world through the perspectives of anthropology, geography, international development and international relations. You’ll also examine how these disciplines interact and complement each other within the social sciences.

You’ll focus on identity, exploring:

• how class, gender, ethnicity, and other factors shape our sense of self
• how wider social forces influence personal and collective identities
• the unique and overlapping approaches of the global disciplines to studying identity and intersectionality.

This module provides an interdisciplinary foundation for understanding global issues and identities.

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 2025/26. 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.