Module POL1025 for 2024/5
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL1025: Classical Political Thought
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.
Overview
| NQF Level | 4 | ||
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| Credits | 15 | ECTS Value | 7.5 |
| Term(s) and duration | This module ran during term 1 (11 weeks) | ||
| Academic staff | Dr Jack Tagney (Convenor) | ||
| Pre-requisites | None | ||
| Co-requisites | None | ||
| Available via distance learning | No | ||
In this first installment of Exeter’s History of Political Thought modules, you will study some of the formative political writings of the Western tradition that have come down to us from the pens of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. You will become acquainted with a world very different from our own, yet one that is the source of many of the concepts, values, institutions, and much of the language, of modern Western politics. ‘Democracy’, ‘tyranny’, ‘justice’, ‘citizen’, ‘republic’, and ‘politics’ itself are all words that have Greek or Latin origins, and refer to ideas crucial to the political thought of the Classical period.
| Module created | 01/10/2010 | Last revised | 30/03/2023 |
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