SPOLM1068: International Analysis of Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
TB2 2024-25
Assessment Overview:
Formative: Group presentation (equivalent to 1,000 words)
Summative (100% of unit mark): Essay (3,000 words maximum)
Approved by Exam Scrutiny before: Yes
Assessment in line with unit catalogue: Yes
Learning outcomes: https://www.bris.ac.uk/unit-programme-catalogue/UnitDetails.jsa?unitCode=SPOLM1068
Formative Assessment: Group presentation
The formative assessment provides structured and collaborative support for students to develop their ideas for the summative assessment (essay). This will involve a 5-minute group presentation in the last two weeks of unit delivery focusing on how the group would respond to their selected summative essay question, with feedback from fellow student peers and the seminar convenor during the class session.
This is intended to facilitate students to apply the ideas, concepts and evidence introduced in the unit in their summative assessment, and to better focus their arguments around the essay questions.
Summative Assessment: Academic Essay
Please answer ONE of the following questions:
1. How can multidimensional measurement improve understanding of global child poverty and subsequent policy responses?
2. How can qualitative and participatory evidence advance understanding of the experience of poverty? Does it enable the ‘voices of the poor’ (Naryan, 2000) to be better heard in global policy debates?
3. How should an understanding of gender inequality inform. the design and delivery of policies to reduce poverty?
4. How useful are objective and subjective indicators of living standards in informing public policies to improve economic and social well-being?
5. Critically analyse trends in economic inequality between and within nations. What are their implications for efforts to eliminate global poverty?
6. Critically evaluate the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals framework from an anti-poverty perspective. How useful is it in achieving progress in tackling global poverty?
7. By drawing on case study examples, critically discuss the connections between poverty, inequality, and environmental injustice. What are the lessons for policies to address environmental crisis?
WORD LIMIT: 3,000 words maximum
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
SUMBISSION POINT: Blackboard
FEEDBACK DUE: 15 working days from submission
Use of AI software:
The Category of AI use permitted in this assessment is Category 2: Minimal – for example, using spelling and grammar checkers to help identify mistakes but not rewrite chunks of text.
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