About Learning from audio-visual material: Introducing surveillance

Looking at the theme of surveillance as a multifaceted everyday practice, this unit will show you the value of using audio visual material in your learning. It will show you how to develop the skills you need to make the most of learning from DVDs. This unit will help you to develop your ability to: understand what we mean by the entanglements of social welfare and crime control, by exploring the tensions and relations between 'watching over and 'watching out for; understand policy responses and their relevance; identify different kinds of evidence - in particular, visual evidence and interview evidence; develop your ICT skills, including how to make the most of using a video in your learning; practise your information search, note-taking and retrieval skills.