Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2012: The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

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 assessmentSize of the assessment (eg length / duration)ILOs assessedFeedback method
Essay500-1000 words1-7, 9Written and verbal

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.

CourseworkWritten examsPractical exams
10000

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

Form of assessment% of creditSize of the assessment (eg length / duration)ILOs assessedFeedback method
Portfolio 1003,500 words comprising 4 short essays marked individually before generating an overall average which is the mark awarded for the assessment1-7, 9Written (also continuous informal during seminars)

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 assessmentForm of re-assessmentILOs re-assessedTimescale for re-assessment
Portfolio Portfolio1-7, 9August/September re-assessment period,

Re-assessment notes

Where you have been referred/ deferred for the portfolio you will submit a portfolio (containing 3 different pieces) in the August/September re-assessment period. . This will constitute 100% of the module.

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.

Bellamy, Alex, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin, Understanding peacekeeping  (Polity Press, 2004)

Chatterjee and Scheid (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2003)

Duffield, M. Global Governance and the New Wars: the merging of development and security (London: Zed Books, 2001)

Hoffman, Stanley, The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996)

Holzgrefe, JL and Robert O. Keohane (eds), Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal, and political dilemmas (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Orford, Anne. Reading Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

(ICISS), The Responsibility to Protect, December 2001,

Wheeler, Nicholas, Saving Strangers, Humanitarian intervention in international society. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Woodhouse, Tom and Oliver Ramsbotham (eds) Peacekeeping and conflict resolution. (London : Frank Cass, 2000).

Weber, Cynthia. Simulating Sovereignty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)Stanley Hoffmann (Author)

Vincent, R. J., Non-Intervention and International Order (Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 1974).