Module POC3132 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3132: Politics of War
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
Indicative content includes: critical approaches to studying war and society; the role of gender, race, and nationalism in legitimising war; introduction to a range of different historical and cultural contexts; consideration of cultural practices surrounding war which may include film, ceremony, art; questions of agency and resistance; the relationship between military technologies and the experience of war.
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 |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activity | 22 | 11 x 2-hour seminars |
Guided Independent study | 50 | Private study reading and preparing for seminars |
Guided Independent study | 78 | Preparation for portfolio and group project including researching and collating relevant sources; planning the structure and argument; writing up the work |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).