Module POC1026 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC1026: Power, Inequality and Global Justice
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Aims
The aims of this module are to:
- Encourage you to think critically about hegemonic practices in world politics, and the assumptions that sustain them
- Enable you to analyse and deconstruct these practices
- Use these deconstructive processes to the possibilities for global justice.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Generate critical questions about world politics 2. Analyse and deconstruct hegemonic practices in world politics 3. Use deconstructive practices to discuss and evaluate possibilities for global justice |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Engage in comparative and critical analytical work in politics 5. Articulate your own political and ethical viewpoints and justify them 6. List, describe and evaluate different political interpretations in the light of appropriate evidence |
| Personal and Key Skills | 7. Study independently and in groups 8. Construct well-structured rigorous arguments based on logical deduction 9. Appropriately use ICT for research and presentation purposes |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- How can we think critically?
- How do we find out what is going on in the world?
- Why do we obey?
- Why is the world divided territorially?
- Do colonialism and slavery belong in the past?
- Why are some people better off than others?
- What makes the world dangerous?
- What can we do to change the world?
- Who do we think we are?
- How can we end poverty?
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 27.5 | 122.5 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 16.5 | 11 x 1.5 hour Lectures |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 11 | 11 x 1 hour Seminars guided by questions and readings assigned by the tutor and including assessed presentations |
| Guided Independent Study | 33 | Reading and preparing for seminars, contributing to group project |
| Guided independent study | 99.5 | Preparing portfolio and formative assessment |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
