Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC3142: Social and Islamist Armed Movements

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

While the precise content will vary from year to year, it is expected that the module will include lectures on the following themes:
• Theoretical Approaches: Islamism and Armed Activism:
• Armed Islamism and the Arab Spring
• Jihadism and Armed Islamism
• From Upper-Egypt to Sinai: Islamist Insurgencies in Egypt
• Transnational Subversive Jihadism: The Case of al-Qaida Network
• Islamic State
• The Military Capacity of the Islamic State
• Armed Islamism in Syria
• The Foreign Fighters
• Jihad after Iraq: Lessons from the Arab Afghan
• Hamas – Gaza and Armed Islamism

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
22	128

...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 activity	22	11 x 1 hour seminars
Guided independent study	65	Private study, reading and preparing for seminars (approx. 6 hours of private study per seminar)
Guided independent study	28	Researching and writing the policy note
Guided independent study	30	Researching and writing essay
Guided independent study	5	Preparing formative presentation

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).