The Struggle for Democracy

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify contemporary and future challenges to the democratic state
• Identify and assess contending critiques of democracy and their related conceptions of democratic reform
• Describe and critically examine contending theoretical accounts of the modern democratic state
• Link key aspects or versions of democratic theory to contemporary democratic practices

The emergence of the democratic state; key critiques of democracy in theory and practice; contemporary and emerging challenges and changes to the democratic state; trends and innovations in democratic practice

Teaching will be 2 hours of lectures per week. All will be recorded and posted on Blackboard. Lectures will be delivered either face to face or online only depending upon University and Public Health England Guidance at the time. Total of 24 hours of lectures (2 hours per week X 12 weeks) per module.

Weekly student participation in online discussion boards. 1 hour per week delivered asynchronously. (1 hour X 12 weeks)

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.