Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL1028: Introduction to Strategic Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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
Strategy assessment	500 words	1-11	Oral
Essay Outline	500 words	1-11	Oral

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
60	40	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
Examination	40	1 hour	1-12	Written
Essay	60	2,500 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
Examination	Examination (1 hour)	1-12	August /September reassessment period
Essay	Essay (2,500 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.

Barkawi, T. Globalization and War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)

Baylis, J., Wirtz, J., Gray, C.S., Strategy in the Contemporary World 5^th Edition (Oxford: OUP, 2016)

Beckett, I. Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and their Opponents since 1750 (Routledge, 2001)

Corbett, J.S., Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, (London: Longmans Green, 1911)

Freedman, L., Strategy: A History (Oxford: OUP, 2013)

Gray, C.S. Modern strategy (Oxford University Press, 1999)

Heuser, B., The Evolution of Strategy: thinking war from antiquity to the present, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Jordan, D. et al, Understanding Modern Warfare (Cambridge: CUP, 2008)

Knox, M., Murray, W., The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 (Cambridge: CUP, 2001)

Lebow, R.N. Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Mahnken, T., Maiolo, J. (ed), Strategic Studies: A Reader 2^nd Edition (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014)

Murray, W., Knox, W., Bernstein, A., The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (Cambridge: CUP, 1994)

Porter, P. Military Orientalism: Eastern War through Western Eyes (Hurst, 2009)

Smith, R. The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World (Allen Lane, 2005)

Strachan, H. and Schiepers, S. (eds.), The Changing Character of War (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Strachan, H., The Direction of War : Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective,

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Townshend, C. (ed.), The Oxford History of Modern War (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Tzu, Sun (Samuel B. Griffiths trans.), The Art of War (Oxford: OUP, 1971)

Von Clausewitz, C. On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. (Princeton University Press, 1976)