Module POC3124 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3124: Political Thinkers of the Late Twentieth Century
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 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 assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay plan | 1-2 pages | 1-6 | Peer review and verbal comments in class |
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 |
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Essay | 60 | 2,500 words | 1-6 | Verbal and written comments |
Commentaries on selected texts | 40 | 2,000 words | 1-6 | Written comments |
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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Essay | Essay (2,500 words) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment period |
Commentaries on selected texts | Essay (2,000 words) | 1-6 | 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.
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.
Friedrich Hayek [1944] The Road to Serfdom
Simone de Beauvoir [1949] The Second Sex
Frantz Fanon [1961] The Wretched of the Earth
Michael Oakeshott [1962] Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
Hannah Arendt [1963] Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Michael Foucault [1976] The History of Sexuality
Paulo Freire [1970] Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Angela Davis [1998] The Angela Y. Davis Reader
Stuart Hall [2017] Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and other essays.