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Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM502: International Relations: Power and Institutions

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

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:

1. The philosophical origins of contemporary IR
2. Imperialism and colonialism in an Age of Empires
3. Intra-imperial rivalry and a world in crisis: from anarchy to the League
4. The Second World War and the origins of ‘realism’
5. The management of Cold War bipolarity
6. The resilience of institutions and the revival of liberalism
7. The renaissance of critique: Feminism and Critical Theory
8. The end of the Cold War and the rise of constructivism
9. Poststructuralism and the discursive construction of world politics
10. Race and world politics revisited

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

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

Other Learning Resources

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.

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.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

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.

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