Module POC3124 for 2021/2
- 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 2021/2 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module will survey the work of a range of thinkers from the late twentieth century. While the specific thinkers and texts surveyed may vary from year to year, they will be selected to reflect a range of themes (such as sexual liberation, decolonization, power and violence) and ideologies (such as conservativism, feminism, communism and black power). An indicative list of thinkers whose work the module might examine includes: Michel Foucault, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich von Hayek, Stuart Hall, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt & Frantz Fanon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 130 | 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 activity | 20 | 10 x 2 hour seminars |
| Guided Independent study | 40 | Reading and preparation for seminars |
| Guided Independent study | 90 | Preparation and completion of assessment tasks |
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.
Basic reading:
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.
Arendt, Arendt (1963) Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking Press.
Davis, Angela (1998) The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James. London: Blackwell.
de Beauvoir, Simone (1953) The Second Sex. London: Jonathan Cape.
Hall, Stuart (2017) Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and other essays. Durham: Duke University Press.
Hayek, Friedrich (1944) The Road to Serfdom. London: Routledge.
Fanon, Frantz (1961) The Wretched of the Earth.
Foucault, Michel (1977) Discipline and Punish. London: Pantheon Books.
Freire, Paolo (1970) Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Herder & Herder.
Lorde, Audre (1984) Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press.
Oakeshott, Michael (1962) Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. London: Metheun.
