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Module code:HMEDG031(Add to my personalised list)
Title:Madness and Society
Credit value:30
Division:Division of Biosciences
Module organiser:Dr Carole Reeves
Organiser's location:Medical Sciences Building
Organiser's email:c.reeves@ucl.ac.uk
Available for students in Year(s):
Module prerequisites:Available to Postgraduate Masters Students only  
Module outline:This course examines the ways in which deviant behaviour has been identified and controlled from the ancient world to the present. Topics include the witch hunts in Western Europe, the history of suicide, the rise of the asylum, mad monarchs, spies and visionaries, gendered madness, criminal insanity and degeneration, the growth of the psychiatric profession, Freud, Jung and anti-psychiatry, and the tensions between organic, analytical and sociological explanations of insanity.  
Module aims:To develop the student’s interest in and knowledge and understanding of the history of psychiatry. To develop critical reading, writing and thinking skills, and enhanced intellectual independence.  
Module objectives:To undertake independent reading to supplement and consolidate what is being taught / learned, and to broaden individual knowledge and understanding of the subject; Retrieve, select and organise information from a variety of sources; Plan and undertake a bibliographically-based piece of research; Apply key methods and concepts of historical analysis; Present coherent and logical argument based on an analysis of different factual sources; Structure and communicate ideas effectively, both orally and in writing; Manage time and work to deadlines; Work independently; Find information, use information technology, and be aware of the appropriate use of information technology; Be self-reliant; Assess the relevance and importance of the ideas of others  
Key skills provided by module:Reason critically; Apply historical methods and concepts; Identify and solve problems; Analyse and interpret; Demonstrate and exercise independence of thought  
Module timetable:https://cmis.adcom.ucl.ac.uk:4443/timetabling/moduleTimet.do?firstReq=Y&moduleId=HMEDG031 
Module assessment:Essay 2 (3,500 words) 50.00%.
Essay 1 (3,000 words) 50.00%.
 
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Link to virtual learning environment(registered students only)https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3969 
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