Module POL3234 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3234: Religion, Politics and Policy in Europe
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 outline | 500 words | 1-7 | Peer-assessed and written feedback by the instructor |
Position paper outline | 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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75 | 0 | 25 |
...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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Group presentation (in class) | 25 | 25 minutes | 1-8 | Written |
Position Paper | 25 | 1500 words | 1-7 | Written |
Essay | 50 | 3500 words | 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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Group Presentation | 6-minute individual presentation recorded | 1-8 | August/September reassessment period |
Position Paper | Position Paper (1500 words) | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Essay | Essay (3500 words) | 1-7 | 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.
Haynes, J. (ed.) (2016). Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics. New York: Routledge.
Norris, P. and R. Inglehart (2011). Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bruce, S. (2002). God is dead: secularization in the West. Oxford: Blackwell.
Fox, J. (2015). Political Secularism, Religion, and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Burns, G. (2005). The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Engeli, I., C. Green-Pedersen, and L. T. Larsen, eds. (2012). Morality Politics in Western Europe: Parties, Agendas and Policy Choices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Grzymala-Busse, A. M. (2015). Nations under God: How churches use moral authority to influence policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Fetzer, J. and Soper, J.C. (2005). Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.