Collective Action and Social Change

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Knowledge and understanding of the impact of non-profit organisations on various levels (personal, social, political).
• Engage critically with competing sociological theories about the emergence, organisation and impact of social change organisations (social movement organisations, non-profit organisations, third sector organisations, non-governmental organisations).
• Knowledge and understanding of resource-management such as recruitment and fund-raising.
• Develop collaborative study and research abilities.
• Produce succinct summary overviews of complex material.
• Take responsibility for representing particular arguments/evidence.
• Analyse and evaluate competing perspectives on a topic.
• Knowledge and understanding of different types of social change organisations organizations.
• Evaluate wider sociological claims through the applied study of particular fields of practice.
• Produce a sustained argument using diverse data.
• Knowledge and understanding of different organisational structures and strategies.
• Articulate views and arguments in sustained seminar discussions.
• Integrate insights from social movement theory with those from other relevant sub-disciplines within Sociology.

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.