Module POC2087 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2087: Security Studies
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Respondent to Student-Led seminar | 5 minutes | 1-5, 8 | Oral |
Practice exam answers | 10 minutes | 1-7 | Oral |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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60 | 40 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Take home exam | 40 | 2 weeks | 1-7 | Written |
Essay | 60 | 3500 words | 1-9 | Written and oral |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Take home exam | 2 weeks | 1-7 | August/September re-assessment period |
Essay | 3500 words | 1-9 | August/September re-assessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
1. Peoples, C. and Vaughan-Williams, N., Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (London, Routledge, 2010)
2. Grovogui, Siba N. "Looking Beyond Spring for the Season: An African perspective on the world order after the Arab Revolt." Globalizations 8, no. 5 (2011): 567-572.
3. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963.
4. Baldwin, D. ‘The Concept of Security’, Review of International Studies, 23(1), (1997), pp. 5-26.
5. Annick. T.R. Wibben. 'Feminist Security Studies'. In The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies (Abingdon, Routledge, 2012)
6. Walt, S.'The Renaissance of Security Studies,' International Studies Quarterly, 35(2), (1991), pp. 211-239
7. Shilliam, Robbie, ed. International Relations and non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity. Routledge, 2010.
8. Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Univ of California Press, 2014.
9. Sabaratnam, Meera. "Avatars of Eurocentrism in the Critique of the Liberal Peace." Security Dialogue 44, no. 3 (2013): 259-278.
10. Pasha, Mustapha Kamal. "Security as hegemony." Alternatives 21, no. 3 (1996): 283-302.