Module POL2112 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL2112: Politics and Its Discontents
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay outline | 500 words | 1, 7-10 | Peer-assessed |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Textual Analysis 1 | 20 | 1000 words | 1, 7- 10 | Written |
| Textual Analysis 2 | 20 | 1000 words | 1, 7- 10 | Written |
| Essay | 60 | 3000 words | 1-11 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Textual Analysis 1 | Textual Analysis (1000 words) | 1, 7-10 | August/September reassessment period |
| Textual Analysis 2 | Textual Analysis (1000 words) | 1, 7-10 | August/September reassessment period |
| Essay | Essay (3000 words) | 1-11 | August/September reassessment period |
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.
Primary Texts
Freud, S. Civilisation and Its Discontents, translated by D. McLintock (London: Penguin, 2002)
Freud, S. Mass Psychology and Other Writings, translated by J.A. Underwood (London: Penguin, 2004)
Nietzsche, F. The Geanealogy of Morality, edited by K. Ansell-Pearson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Secondary Texts
Adorno, T. “Sociology and Psychology I & II”, New Left Review, 46 & 47 (1967-68)
Ansell-Pearson, K. An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Le Bon, G. The Crowd (out of copywrite – available in multiple cheap editions)
Butler, J. Gender Trouble (London: Routledge, 1990)
Connolly, W.E. Political Theory and Modernity (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988)
Deleuze, G. Nietzsche, translated by H. Tomlinson (London: Athlone, 1983)
Frosh, S. The Politics of Psychoanalysis (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999)
Gipps, R.G.T. and Lacewing, M. The Oxford Hanbook of Philosophy & Psychoanalysis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
Marcuse, H. Eros and Civilisation (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987)
Owen, D. Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault (London: Routledge, 1994)
Reich, W. Mass Psychology of Fascism, translated by V.R. Carfagno (Souvenir Press, 1997)
Stavrakakis, Y. (ed) Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory (London: Routledge, 2020)
Wolfenstein, E.V.“Psychoanalysis in Political Theory”, Political Theory 24 (1996)
