Contemporary Theories of Justice

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Produce detailed and considered normative arguments, in written form

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• A range of contemporary views on the nature and demands of justice

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Assess written arguments

The module discusses the contributions contemporary political theory has made to thinking about questions of distributive justice. Indicative issues might include:

• Rawls’s theory of justice
• Cohen’s critique of Rawls
• Nozick and right-libertarianism
• Dworkin and luck egalitarianism
• Left-libertarianism
• Marxism and the critique of exploitation
• Iris Young on oppression

2 hours of lectures per week. All will be recorded and posted on Blackboard. Lectures will be delivered either face to face or online only depending upon University and Public Health England Guidance at the time. Total of 24 hours of lectures (2 hours per week X 12 weeks) per module.

Weekly student participation in online discussion boards. 1 hour per week delivered asynchronously. (1 hour X 12 weeks)

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.