Module POL2102 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL2102: Explaining Public Policies
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Module Aims
The module helps you understand and explain why policies take the forms they do. After the introductory lecture, the module is taught in four 2-week cycles; a theoretical framework will be introduced in the first week and then applied to an empirical setting in the second week through research-led teaching. The tutorials will mirror these lectures. In addition to encouraging students to think like policymakers, the module will provide links to employability and future career pathways such as the Civil Service, political communication, lobbying, think tanks and policy advisor roles.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate understanding of the nature and evolution of core concepts regarding public policy; 2. analyse policy problems through key conceptual lenses. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. critically assess the utilities of different public policy-oriented theories and methods deployed in policy analysis; 4. apply key theoretical ideas to concrete, empirical examples. |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. communicate ideas effectively both formally through position papers and essays, and informally during class discussions; 6. communicate ideas in a highly effective fashion in a given number of words in written form; 7. work independently to a very high level. |