Module POLM167 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM167: Global Governance: Institutions and Challenges
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
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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Essay plan | 500 words | 1-7 | Written |
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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100 | 0 | 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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Essay 1 long (research project) | 50 | 4000 words | 1-7 | Written |
Essay 2 short (opinion editorial, or policy brief) | 20 | 1000 words | 1-7 | Written |
Group presentation (global challenges debate) | 20 | 15 minutes | 1-7 | Written & oral by peers |
Individual presentation (rapporteur to group presentation) | 10 | 5 minutes | 1-7 | Written |
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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Essay 1 long (research project) | Essay 1 long (research project) | 1-7 | Term 2 reassessment period |
Essay 2 short (opinion editorial, or policy brief) | Essay 2 short (opinion editorial, or policy brief) | 1-7 | Term 2 reassessment period |
Group presentation (global challenges debate) | Group presentation (global challenges debate) | 1-7 | As soon as possible after the presentation date and latest before the end of term 1 |
Individual presentation (rapporteur to group presentation) | Individual presentation (rapporteur to group presentation) | 1-7 | As soon as possible after the presentation date and latest before the end of term 1 |
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.
Armstrong JD, Farrell T and Maiguashca B. (eds) (2003) Governance and resistance in world politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Beeson, M. (2019). Rethinking Global Governance. McMillan.
Caporaso, J. and Madeira, M. A. (2012), Globalization, Institutions & Governance, London: SAGE.
Joseph J. (2012) The Social in the Global: Social Theory, Governmentality and Global Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Harman, S. and Brown, W. (2013), Governing the World? Cases of Global Governance, Routledge.
Held, D. and McGrew, A. (eds.). (2002), Governing Globalization, Cambridge: Polity.
Hurd, I. (2011), International Organizations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Levi-Faur D. (ed) (2012) The Oxford handbook of governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mazower, M. (2013), Governing the World, London: Penguin Books.
Ravenhill, J. (ed.), (2011), Global Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Risse T. (ed) (2011), Governance without a state? Policies and politics in areas of limited statehood, New York: Columbia University Press.
Rittberger, V., Zangl, B., Kruck, A. and Dijkstra, H. (2019). International Organization (3rd Edition). Red Globe Press/Macmillan international.
Seitz, J. and Hite, K. (2012), Global Issues, Malden and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Stone, D. and Moloney, K. (2019), The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Whitman, J. (ed.), (2009), Global Governance, Hampshire: Palgrave.
Wilkinson, P. (ed.), (2005), The Global Governance Reader, London and New York: Routledge.