Politics

Thinking about Race: Perspectives from the Biological and Social Sciences
Module POL2081 for 2019/0

Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL2081: Thinking about Race: Perspectives from the Biological and Social Sciences

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

The course is organized around a series of different perspectives on the topic of race.

Book: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Political Psychology of Race

Group Threat

Social Dominance Orientation

Symbolic Racism

Principled Conservativism

Implicit/Explicit Attitudes

Biology of Race

Evolutionary Psychology

Neuroscience and Race

Genetics and Race

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	22	11 x 2 hour seminar
Guided Independent Study	44	Preparing for Seminar - Reading and Research
Guided Independent Study	84	Completing assessment tasks - Reading, Research and Writing

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).