SP32071: Humanitarianism
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 50%, CWRA 25%, CWSI 25% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Reflective Assessment (CWRA 25%)
- Set exercises Individual (CWSI 25%)
- Essay (CWES 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
- Engage critically in current debates within the humanitarian field.
- Articulate a clear and critical understanding of the differences - organizational, conceptual and practical - between development assistance and humanitarian aid.
- Interrogate humanitarian practice for its engagement with issues around gender, age, ethnicity, class and other sectional characteristics.
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| Synopsis: | Explore humanitarianism as a field of action focused on the alleviation of human suffering.
During this unit, you will cover three main topics:
- Institutional history and guiding principles (including International Law)
- How the field and object of humanitarian action have been conventionally conceived (e.g. what is an emergency? How are `refugees distinguished from other migrants?)
- Humanitarian practice as pursued in such areas as protection, psychosocial, education, shelter, etc.
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| Content: | This unit explores humanitarianism as a field of action focused on the alleviation of human suffering. It examines institutional history and guiding principles (including International Law), how the field and object of humanitarian action have been conventionally conceived, and humanitarian practice as pursued in such areas as protection, psychosocial, education, shelter, etc.
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| Course availability: |
SP32071 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AFB53 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB54 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB34 : BSc(Hons) Applied Social Studies (Year 3)
- UHSP-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Criminology (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Criminology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB31 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) International Development with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB32 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB37 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB35 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB36 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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