CONTEMPORARY POLITICS
CONTEMPORARY POLITICS
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2022/2023 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| James lawrie Newell |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide you with an understanding of:
1. The key ideas and concepts of liberal democracy;
2. The basic institutions of liberal democracy;
3. The threats and challenges to liberal democracy: both internal threats such as increasing citizen dissatisfaction and external threats such as terrorism
Program
Learning Outcomes: What Will You Learn?
Knowledge and Understanding
By the end of the course, you will understand:
1. The different types of democracy and how it is distinguished from other regime types;
2. The key concepts of representation and participation in liberal democracies
3. The key empirical trends in citizen attitudes towards democracy and political participation in liberal democracies.
4. The institutional and organisational arrangements of democracy
5. The key challenges to liberal democracy in the 21st century
Skills
Through presentations you will learn to manage time pressure, and make concise explanation of their arguments. In addition, you will be able to:
1. Cultivate inter-personal skills
2. Perform your oral and written communication skills
3. Demonstrate the development of research skills.
4. Demonstrate subject specific research techniques
5. Apply a range of methodologies to complex political problems
By writing your essay you will develop your critical capacities to assess both political and documentary evidence, and to make written arguments in a coherent, structured and persuasive way.
In addition, the module will encourage you to:
1. Engage with both analytical concepts and factual content of the topics covered
2. Discuss such concepts and to contribute to seminar discussion on the topic
3. Present concepts and their analysis in written and verbal form
4. Collate and use a number of sources as an intellectual basis for your analysis
5. Research and produce written work
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
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