Digital Lives (X3300)

15 credits, Level 6

Autumn teaching

How is technology transforming young people’s everyday lives? How can we support young people to benefit from the digital world, whilst also protecting their safety and wellbeing?

On this module, you’ll focus on the digital lives of young people, from social media to artificial intelligence. Through concepts of identity, relationships and risk, you’ll analyse:

  • how young people can be supported to navigate a digital world
  • the challenges digital technologies present for policy and practice.

You’ll also prepare blogs for practice audiences, developing your communication skills.

Teaching

100%: Seminar

Assessment

100%: Practical (Portfolio)

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We鈥檙e planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We鈥檒l make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses: