Unit name | Health Law and the Body |
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Unit code | LAWDM0133 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Sheelagh McGuinness |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit aims to provide a firm knowledge and understanding of the theoretical literature on bodies and embodiment. Students will be equipped to critically assess the legal frameworks that regulate and contain bodies and bodily material. The unit approaches these questions through a range of practical, legal, and critical pathways, explaining the relevant legal frameworks, and examining specific legal constructions of different bodily forms. By providing a strong grounding in theoretical literature the unit will enable students to assess critically the regulation of bodies and bodily material. Students will be encouraged to translate their understanding of the theoretical material and apply this to a series of case studies in how bodies and shaped and created in law. A guest lecture will be delivered in order to ensure students also gain an insight into the realities of policy-making in this area.
The Unit aims to develop an understanding of Health Law and the Body.
On completion of the Unit, students should be able to:
Teaching will be delivered through a variety of asynchronous and synchronous activities
1x summative assessment: 1 x Law Reform Project (100%) with a specified word count.
The assessment will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
As it is an innovative assessment method, it may be useful to see some further detail on the law reform project:
The formative assessment will be one 1500-word critical, discursive essay. There will be an opportunity for direct feedback on a separate law reform exercise through student presentations.
Additional opportunities for non-assessed formative work and feedback will be provided through mixed teaching methods and student-led tasks in seminars.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.