SO4A8 Half Unit
Leadership and Social Change
This information is for the 2020/21 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Sara Camacho Felix CBG 4.07
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science. This course is not available as an outside option.
This course is available only to Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity MSc students. This is a compulsory course for these students and non-AFSEE Fellows will not be permitted to take this course.
Course content
The course responds to the needs of the AFSEE Fellows to develop critical skills and understandings of leadership within various contexts and themes indexed to transforming global inequality. This approach marries a structural analysis of global inequality and its manifestations with critical analysis, reflexive thinking, as well as practical skills that will provide students with the tools to bring systemic change into being. Crucially, the course is heavily rooted in theories of practice, in which Fellows are introduced to and demonstrate a sound knowledge and critical appreciation of their field and its associated practice and research techniques, and show that these techniques can be successfully applied in revealing or challenging injustice and inequality. The course will consist of lectures, presentations, seminars and workshops. Lectures will introduce Fellows to key concepts, approaches and techniques for understanding and challenging inequality. Workshops and seminars will help Fellows clarify and deepen their understanding of points and issues raised in the lectures, through practical work carried out individually and in groups.
Teaching
6 hours of lectures and 10 hours of workshops in both teaching weeks.
Week 1 – 2 November - 6 November 2020 - Leadership and Social Change
Week 2 – 26 April - 30 April 2021 - Leadership and Social Change
Teaching arrangements may be adjusted if online teaching is required at any point.
Formative coursework
There will be one piece of formative coursework, a 1500 word essay in response to a set question. The formative essay will be due in week 10 of Michaelmas Term. Fellows will receive written feedback on the essay and will have the opportunity to discuss the written feedback with the Course Convenor. This formative coursework is directly related to the summative essay which will be due in LT.
Indicative reading
Della Porta, D. (2015). Social Movements in Times of Austerity.
Gaventa, J. 2006. Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis. IDS Bulletin 37 (6). November 2006.
Green, D. 2016. How Change Happens. Oxford University Press.
Also accessible as a free download at < http://how-change-happens.com/download/>
Green, D. 2016. Why Systems Thinking Changes Everything for Activists and Reformers. <http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/why-systems-thinking-changes-everything-activists-and-reformers> 11.2.2016.
Goss, S. 2015. Systems Leadership: A View from the Bridge. OPM.
Glasius, Marlies and Ishkanian, Armine (2015) Surreptitious symbiosis: engagement between activists and NGOs.
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26 (6). pp. 2620-2644.
Hickel, J. (2017) The Divide: A Brief Guild to Global Inequality and its Solutions. William Heinemann. London.
Ishkanian, Armine and Peña Saavedra, Anita (2019) The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: the case of Sisters Uncut. Sociological Review, 67 (5). 985 - 1001.
Raworth, K (2018) Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. London. Random House Business
Seckinelgin, H. (2017) The politics of global AIDS: institutionalization of solidarity, exclusion of context. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
Weldon, L. S. (2011). When protest makes policy: how social movements represent disadvantaged groups. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Ulex Project. “Transformative Collaboration: A Primer,” accessed 28 August 2018, http://ulexproject.org/wpcontent/
uploads/2017/01/trans-coll-publication1.pdf.
Assessment
Essay (70%, 2500 words) in the LT.
Presentation (30%) in the ST.
70% Essay 2500 words in LT
30% Presentation in ST
An electronic copy of the assessed essay, to be uploaded to Moodle, in Week 7 of Lent Term.
Important information in response to COVID-19
Please note that during 2020/21 academic year some variation to teaching and learning activities may be required to respond to changes in public health advice and/or to account for the situation of students in attendance on campus and those studying online during the early part of the academic year. For assessment, this may involve changes to mode of delivery and/or the format or weighting of assessments. Changes will only be made if required and students will be notified about any changes to teaching or assessment plans at the earliest opportunity.
Key facts
Department: Sociology
Total students 2019/20: 5
Average class size 2019/20: 5
Controlled access 2019/20: Yes
Value: Half Unit
Personal development skills
- Leadership
- Self-management
- Team working
- Problem solving
- Application of information skills
- Communication
- Specialist skills
