Surveillance in a Post-9/11 World (PO42009)
Module Convenor: Dr Martin Elvins
Credit Rating: 30 SCQF credits
Level: Level 4 optional module
Module Content
Teaching sessions will cover:
- Surveillance and privacy
- Foucault and Panoptic surveillance
- Surveillance and the free market
- Workplace surveillance
- ID and Biometrics
- CCTV
- Post 9/11 government surveillance (1): towards a control society?
- Post 9/11 government surveillance (2): tools of surveillance
- Resisting surveillance
- Surveillance society?
- Future trends / discussion of course
Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
- Develop knowledge and awareness of the ways in which everyday life is now subject to an extensive array of surveillance methods.
- Develop understanding of the socio-historical and socio-political development of surveillance internationally.
- An awareness of contemporary tensions arising from surveillance in relation to civil liberties and personal freedoms.
Skills
- Critical engagement with an issue that is central to the relationship between contemporary governance and civil society.
- Students will develop their discussion skills in group work and research and writing skills in an extended essay (c4,000 words).
Teaching
This module has eleven one-hour lectures and eleven one-hour seminars.
Assessment
The assessed components on this module are:
- One essay (50% of total mark)
- Unseen two-hour examination (50% of total mark)
Indicative Reading
- Coleman, Roy and McCahill, Michael (2011) Surveillance and Crime (London: Sage, 2011)
- Hier, Joshua P. and Greenberg, Paul (eds) (2007) The Surveillance Studies Reader (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2007)
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