Politics

<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <h2>Level C (Year One)</h2> <p>You will study a lecture series entitled ‘The Foundations of Politics’. This will comprise&nbsp;three lectures per week, each lasting one&nbsp;hour, and will introduce you to the discipline&nbsp;and a range of its key theories. In addition&nbsp;to this you will take two seminars. These&nbsp;are entitled Political Institutions and Political&nbsp;Actors. They consider the core structural&nbsp;components of politics and how individuals&nbsp;and groups interact with these institutions.</p> <p>In addition you will participate in a weekly small group tutorial which considers skills and research methods in politics. Assessment methods include essays, exams and tutorial workbooks.</p> <h2>Level I (Year Two)</h2> <p>The lecture series in the second year&nbsp;considers democracy and its strengths&nbsp;and weaknesses as a political system. The&nbsp;curriculum builds on your learning in the&nbsp;first year and looks at the evolution and&nbsp;implementation of democracy from Athens to&nbsp;the present day. Two seminar series look at&nbsp;democracy in the United Kingdom, and the&nbsp;comparative study of European democracies.&nbsp;These strands of thought create an enhanced&nbsp;understanding of democracy as the most&nbsp;popular form of governance in the modern&nbsp;world, complete with significant variations&nbsp;in its understanding and practice. The small&nbsp;group tutorials consider a range of alternative&nbsp;ideologies to democracy and give alternative&nbsp;viewpoints about popular governance.</p> <p>Assessment methods involve essays,&nbsp;exams and extended projects.&nbsp;</p> <h2>Level H (Year Three)&nbsp;</h2> <p>In the final year a research project is&nbsp;undertaken on an agreed subject area.&nbsp;Thereafter the core lecture series looks at&nbsp;politics in the United States, considering the&nbsp;strengths and weaknesses of its system,&nbsp;and we consider the issues which are pivotal&nbsp;to an understanding of political oratory. We&nbsp;also look at British foreign policy. Seminars&nbsp;serve to reinforce an understanding of&nbsp;this, with a focus on the US presidency&nbsp;and American politics and on the impact&nbsp;and effect of political oratory. This gives a&nbsp;contemporary understanding of a range of<br>current political and economic dilemmas&nbsp;and allows primary research into a number&nbsp;of contentious areas. A tutorial series&nbsp;is designed to give support in research&nbsp;methods and to assist in the production of a&nbsp;high quality research project.</p> <p>Assessment methods include a research&nbsp;project, a two hour exam and essay&nbsp;coursework. Sample dissertation titles&nbsp;from recent times include – ‘Rendition,&nbsp;politics and anti-terror policies’; ‘The&nbsp;effect of First Ladies upon the Presidential&nbsp;Office’; ‘Tony Blair: the third way and the&nbsp;reformation of the Labour Party’.</p> <h2>You may also be interested in...</h2> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/criminology/">Criminology</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/history/">History</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/internationalrelations/">International Relations</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/law/">Law</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.hope.ac.uk/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/llblaw/">Law LLB</a></p> <p><a href="/undergraduate/undergraduatecourses/politics/">Politics</a></p> </div>