Module POC1028 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC1028: Modern Political Theory
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
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:
Political Theory: Ancient and Modern
Machiavelli Power Politics
Hobbes: A New Science of Politics
Locke: Consent and Limited Government
Rousseau: The Social Contract
Rousseau and The French Revolution
The American Revolution and the Federalists
Radicalising Revolution: Feminism and Slavery
Marx’s Critique of Alienation
Marx: The Communist Manifesto
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27.5 | 122.5 | 0 |
...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 Activities | 16.5 | 11 x 1.5 hour lectures and a half hour duration |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 11 | 11 x 1 hour tutorials |
| Guided Independent Study | 45 | directed reading; |
| Guided independent study | 6 | completing the formative research outline |
| Guided independent study | 26.5 | completing the essay |
| Guided Independent Study | 45 | studying for the exam |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Maximilien Robespierre, The Justification of the Use of Terror
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Christopher Rose, The Haitian Revolution
Anthony Bogues, The Dual Haitian Revolution and the Making of Freedom in Modernity
Leslie Thiele, Theory and Politics
Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
Karl Marx , The Communist Manifesto
