Youth & Society / Introduction to Global Health
Module Code: SSU33122
Module Name: Youth & Society / Introduction to Global Health
- ECTS Weighting: 10
- Semester/ Term Taught: Michaelmas and Hilary Term
- Contact hours: MT component delivered online and 1 Tutorial. Hilary Term component 22 (11x 2)
- Module Personnel: Dr Paula Mayock & Dr. Ann Nolan
Michaelmas Term - Youth & Society (5 Credits)
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Have knowledge and understanding of the ways in which ‘youth’ and ‘adolescence’ have been conceptualised over time.
- Be able to identify key concepts and themes that are relevant to understanding the multiple and diverse aspects of youth and youth experience.
- Have the knowlege to critically assess popular discourses and dominant debates on young people.
- Understand how social ineqalities impact the life experiences and life chances of young people in general and marginalised youth, in particular.
Module Overview and Content
This section of the module is inter-disciplinary and will draw on research linked to Youth Studies, Sociology, Criminology, Psychology and Social Policy. The core aim is to provide students with an in-depth, research-based understanding of youth, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. The module will interrogate the key theoretical approaches to understanding youth in society and consider a range of substantive issues and areas within contemporary research on both ‘mainstream’ and ‘marginalised’ youth, with a strong emphasis on youth ‘at risk’, including homeless youth, young people with care experience, and young people who use drugs. Varying approaches to the study of youth will be examined/reviewed and we will explore how social and economic forces influence the lives and experiences of young people generally and marginalised youth in particular.
The aim of this section of the module is:
- To enable students to identify the theoretical constructs that have been used to conceptualise and understand ‘youth’ across time.
- To critcally analyse the impact of social context, social diversity and inequality on the lives and experiences of young people.
- To highlight challenges faced by young people due to structural inequalities within contemporary society, particularly during the transition from ‘child’ to ‘adult’, with specific attention to the situations and experiences of homeless youth, young drug users and young people in and leaving the care system.
- To consider how governments, and Irish social policy in particular, have conceptualised and responded to the lived experience and needs of both mainstream and marginalised young people.
Assessment Component
Group Presentation - 30%
2500 word Essay - 70%
Recommended Reading List
- Furlong, A. (2013) Youth Studies: An Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge. Shelfmark: PL-571-883
- France, A. (2007) Understanding Youth in Late Modernity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Shelfmark: 301.43 P793
- Cieslik, M. & Simpson, D. (2013) Key Concepts in Youth Studies. London: Sage Shelfmark: HL-359-258 (Berkeley Basement); PB-251-813 (Stantry Stacks)
- Lalor, K., deRoiste, A. & Devlin, M. (2007) Young People in Contemporary Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. Shelfmark: LEN 301.43P72
Hilary Term: Introduction to Global Health (5 credits)
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the field of global health scholarship and its translational impact using the Coronavirus pandemic and the global burden of disease as a gateway to learning;
- Recognise core principles and concepts underpinning global health and critically appraise key issues including decolonization, forced migration, planetary health and epidemiological transition;
- Recognise the complex architecture underpinning global governance for health and international development including bilateralism, multilateralism, public-private partnerships for health, and civil society;
- Demonstrate competence in a range of conceptual approaches underpinning globalist analyses of health problems and the extent to which health intersects with poverty, inequality, race, gender, and geopolitics.
Module Content/ Descriotion
The Introduction to Global Health module provides timely analyses of the real-world challenges of global health using Covid-19 and the global burden of disease as a gateway through which the transnational dimensions of health will be explored. It will interrogate core principles and concepts underpinning global health policy, practice and scholarship and examine key issues like the shifting pattern of disease from communicable to non-communicable diseases and the impacts of climate change and forced migration on health. The module will situate global health within the widely accepted framework of health equity both within and between nations, while interrogating the extent to which health intersects with poverty, inequality, race, gender, and politics. Students will be introduced to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 3; global governance for health including bilateralism, multilateralism, and public-private partnerships (PPP) for health, while considering new movements in the field including decolonization and planetary health.
Module Learning Aims
This module has the following key aims:
- To provide a timely introduction to global health in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the global burden of disease;
- To define global health and introduce students to the transnational dimensions of health;
- Familiarise students with global health principles, concepts and key issues including decolonization, forced migration, planetary health and epidemiological transition;
- To critically appraise global health as a multidisciplinary practice and subject that intersects with poverty, inequality, race, gender, and geopolitics.
Assessment Component
Group presentation (20%)
Health framework analysis (1,000 words) (80%)
A penalty of 10% will be applied to students who submit essays late without an authorised extension.