Oh Sections! it's very rare that they'd want you to read the whole book. They hand-pick specific chapters and sections that are the most relevant. If you read two or three chapters a day, then you're doing great. But you shouldn't read for the sake of it, find what is most relevant and helps build your arguments. It's about reading often and reading smart. Quality not quantity!
Ah, that is really handy they do that! It is good they purposely go out of their way to issue particular chapters. I see, so it's dipping in and out of relevant texts each week. Rather than the pressure to finish them. Also in the group sessions, does the tutor mark your essays? And are the groups big/small?Everyone has their own little method of doing it that suits them. You get a list of 10 or so different essay titles to choose from. Usually one will jump out at you because it interested you, or you understood that topic the most.
The things that would get me firsts last year was not only thinking about the essay question, but also think about how your peers will try to answer it, and try to challenge the assumptions of the question, but also challenge the typical arguments that other undergraduates would gravitate towards. Of course, to be able to do this you need to know the topic well yourself! As long as you read, and aren't afraid to ask questions to the teachers, you will do well.
Yes, I definitely understand, but I suppose last year showed that you had it in you, and now whatever happens is meant to be And like you said, it is very possible for things to stars picking up again.I think getting high grades does present you in a good light, I had a job interview last November and in the interview they mentioned that I'd put my first on the CV. The problem is now I have set myself up to do well and there's pressure to keep it up! There's no pressure to get a first, talking to my teachers (who have got Phds and gone on to become professors) - they started out getting 2.1s but towards their third year it just started to click and they ended up getting a first.
I suppose what I am trying to say is: don't aim to get a first. You'll disappoint yourself. Aim to read and love the subject, and you'll a) be more likely to do well and b) come away satisfied no matter what your degree mark is.
Yes, makes complete sense Postmodernism and marxism are both fairly fundamental sociological perspectives, it permeates all aspects of the degree as part of your analysis.
They are big on Globalisation, they state it as one of their '
priority areas'.
Oh yes! Thank you for the link You see the science section, when would you be able to cover that, i.e. ontology etc? In which module...I am really enjoying the Health module this year - you look at the social construction and definition of diseases. How social conditions and natural parts of the lifespan become 'medicalised' - so as medicine becomes more high-tech, and we are able to explain things through biology, they become the doctor's responsibility (i.e. childbirth, male pattern baldness, alcoholism, obesity, depression)
Then you look at inequalities in health: why certain countries live longer than others, why some illnesses are concentrated amongst certain races, why lower class people live shorter lives than middle class people, why women live longer than men, yet have worse health?
Ah, that sounds quite good. Are there modules on mental illness?Rather than general health trends and patterns?And also the economy and capitalism in medicine, how drug companies invent illnesses or fund research to sell drugs (I.e. Halitosis was invented by Listerine!)