Questionaire

Age? You should not ask a lady that.

Sex? Female

What is your degree subject (both if joint)? BA Hons Social Policy/ Social Care

Does ‘Being Bad’ relate well to the other modules you are taking? Yes

If so, how? And if not, why not? Social setting in society.

Have you found ‘Being Bad’ too demanding, too easy, or at an appropriate level? I think its OK

Do you think the list of topics covered on the module was appropriate? Yes

Are there any topics not included in the module that you would like to see included? No

Do you think that the format for classes has worked well? Yes.

What did you think of the module team? They are OK

Do you think it would have been better to have had more:
Small group discussions? NO
Discussion and debate among the class as a whole? Yes
Information and talk from lecturers? Yes

The approach taken in the module is interdisciplinary (drawing on perspectives from English Literature, Film Studies, Creative Writing, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Media Studies and Politics): do you think this a useful way of approaching the topics covered in the module? Yes

Do you think that interdisciplinary modules are a good idea? Yes

Do you think you have benefited from the interdisciplinary approach taken in the module? Yes

Would you like to see more modules that cover this kind of subject matter? Yes

Are you planning to take the follow-up module PH2004 ‘It Shouldn’t Be Allowed’ at level 2? If it is a core subject, yes.

Would you recommend ‘Being Bad’ to a friend? Yes

Do you think that the blogs (web logs) were a good idea? Yes

What did you think of the other assessments (e.g. would it be better to have one longer assessment rather than two shorter ones?)? No I like short assesssments.

What have you learned from the module? How to use blogs.

What parts of the module have you found most useful and why? Blog creation.

What parts do you think were a waste of time and why? None

Are there any other comments you wish to make regarding ‘Being Bad’? No.

Being Bad- The Course.

Like Van Helsing's reign of terror having to come to an end on Dracula's Revenge this brilliant course had to come to a close.

The best lectures were Masturbation with Mark Jones. Here pleasuring oneself is discused and how it has changed through the ages and formed the core of some religions.

Alan Apperley's pictures of the Marlbourough Graves showed the serious side of

the consequences of first and second degree smoking.

Pritpal Sembi and and Meena Dhanda's talk on bad cinema and infedelity

showed how movies discussed affairs of the heart and how they can turn bad,

and do.

The link to this course can be found at http://www.wlv.ac.uk

Why politicians Lie

Politicians want to be in power. To accomplish this they have to be popular to get elected, and put across a message that people want to hear.

However according to The Spectator magazine this is causing people to not vote in droves, the general public see politicians as inept and liars. Thus lying in this case destroys the politicians cause. Links to this site can be found at http://
www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/11702/why-do-politicians-lie-because-they-have-t...
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So what can politicians do to clean up their image? The simple answer to that would be to be honest , however that also may not go down well with people having to face paying more tax for services.

Lying With Integrity: politicians lie.

Politicians are supposed to be accountable to the people who elect them, but are they?

As anybody can see from news reports, a lot of politicians are less than truthful.

The Times newspaper reports that annual parliamentary assistance allowances of £130,000 has been misused to employ family members as staff by MPs.

A link for this story can be found at http://

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3406038.ece

According to Tony Blair weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Saddam Hussein refusal to get rid of them was reason to declare war on Iraq. Yet according to the Gaurdian newspaper 1,625 US/US inspectors searched 1,700 sites finding no weapons and the capacity for making them non-existent.

Link to this at http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme

Being Too Religious- Why Extremism?

Due to the rise in religious extremism Attorney General Lord Goldsmith is proposing new "ASBOs" which will stop religious leaders radicalising others, take inciting messages off the internet, and banning people from incitement to hatred and violence. These ASBOs are considered to be a non-custodial form of punishment according to Lord Goldsmith.

This link at be found athttp://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2274872.html?menu=

However why do people turn extremist? It may be because when immigrants arrive in the UK they are made to feel marginalised and religious leaders ' forms of extremist or "Bad" religion makes converts "too religious".

People can also turn to cults when state religion lets them down.

Stalkers.

Why do people stalk? Ex-boy/girlfriend ? Can't take no for an answer?
Dectective Mike Proctor on his website claims that stalking is a growing concern for campusses, and communities have had an upsurge in stalking. The detective states that work place violence is often initiated through a stalking incident occuring away from the working envioronment. Detective Proctor claims that 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men are stalked in the United States in their life time. Mike Proctors no nonsence approach is the use of collected evidence to identify and prosecute known stalkers. He has worked on 150 successful prosecutions.

Link to site http:// www.detectivemikeproctor.com

Bad cinema

Kids released in 1996 written and directed by Larry Clark is about an ammoral boy Telly, who only likes sex with virgins. Paradoxically he does not know that he has HIV. Jennie his one time girlfriend does as she has been told that she has the virus, so she spends most of the film looking for Telly to tell him the news.

This film shows these "Kids" as the pits. One of Telly's gang steals money from his hard up mother. Casper, another gang member beats up a man he thinks has disrespected him, and rapes Jennie at the end of this nihilistic film.

Film link is http:// www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540-55k-catched