Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC3072F: Politics of Protest

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

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

1. Measuring social movement dynamics

2. Old and new social movements compared

3. Structural and biographic availability

4. Emotions and motivations

5. Protest as anti-politics

6. Survey design

7. Entering and cleaning data in SPSS

8. Assumptions of parametric data

9. Measures of association

10. Basic regression

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
28	122	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 and teaching activity	5	5 x 1 hour lectures
Scheduled Learning and teaching activity	5	5 x 1 hour seminars
Scheduled Learning and teaching activity	10	5 x 2 hour computer workshops
Scheduled Learning and teaching activity	3	Group survey design workshop
Scheduled Learning and teaching activity	5 (plus travel time)	Field trip for data collection
Guided Independent study	43	Private study: reading material set on reading list
Guided Independent study	15	Preparing review of method
Guided Independent study	64	Preparing research report

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