College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Global Justice
Module POLM080 for 2016/7
Module POLM080 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM080: Global Justice
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
- To give students an understanding of the normative questions that arise within the sphere of international politics.
- To explore the contemporary literature on global justice.
- To enable students to develop and defend, through clear and coherent argumentation, their views on important ethical issues.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. explain and contrast the key positions in the contemporary debate on global justice; 2. present a critical assessment of the literature studied in the module; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. evaluate philosophical arguments relating to global politics; 4. summarise philosophical issues and debates relating to global politics and formulate arguments about the subject orally; |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. criticise extended and sophisticated texts; and 6. elaborate structured, evidence-based and logical arguments in short and long pieces of writing. |