Political Texts

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Students will be able to demonstrate ongoing critical engagement with a canonical text.
• Students will be able to critically assess the potentially varied interpretations of a political text.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Students will develop skills in the close reading of a key political text.

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Students will be able to engage critically with political arguments.

The module will focus on one or more classic political texts.

Themes may include:

• Different interpetations of the text(s)
• Critiques of the arguments put forward and how they fitted in the debate(s) of their day.
• Relevance of the text(s) to today's political debates.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, seminars and assessed ongoing engagement.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.