TEACHING
BA/BSc Politics – optional second-year module
BA/BSc Political Economy – optional second-year module
BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics – optional second-year module
This module provides an introduction to policy analysis: understanding how policy is made and what impact it has. The module introduces the concept of the policy process – understanding policy-making in terms of decision, implementation and evaluation. Students will seek to understand why governments do some things, but not others, why policy is often not implemented effectively, and to judge and measure policy success and failure.
MA Public Policy – optional module
MSc Political Economy – optional module
By examining a series of key texts in contemporary political theory, this module will enable students to better understand the underlying philosophical and theoretical issues that inform contemporary public policy-making and to critically evaluate those ideas. The texts studied include: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice; Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference; F. A. Hayek, The Mirage of Social Justice; Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos; and Elizabeth Anderson, What is the point of equality?
BA/BSc Politics – optional third-year module
BA/BSc Political Economy – optional third-year module
BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics – optional third-year module
This team-taught module provides students with an exploration of the nexus between popular fiction and international politics. It uses science fiction literature as a means of understanding, exploring and critiquing Political Economy and International Relations concepts and theories. Through ten topic-based discussions the module enables students to: approach PE/IR theories in a novel way and explore these core concepts with greater depth; demonstrate a coherent and detailed knowledge of the discipline of political economy, applying key theories and techniques of analysis in novel areas in an engaging but rigorous way; and understand and engage critically with an area of cutting-edge research, namely the interplay between popular culture and politics.