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Activism for Development and Social Justice (843L6)

30 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll explore the ways activists and activism engages in development and social justice.

You’ll evaluate different approaches to activism through theories of social mobilisation, citizenship and politics. Using real-life examples, you’ll explore how activism addresses development and social justice.

You’ll cover a range of collective action, including:

• the use of petitions and lobbying of representatives
• the use of the arts in ‘interrupting’ everyday life
• mobilisation for protests and peaceful demonstrations
• non-violent direct action and social media activism.

You’ll apply these ideas to the design of your own activism campaign.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 300 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 267 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.