Written assessment, two questions (1000 words total)

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 30

2 hour exam

2 - Written exam - 70

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The module draws on insights from various disciplines, such as economics, history, politics, sociology, and international relations, and uses a variety of empirical cases and examples from different regions and countries of the world. The module encourages students to critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical perspectives and analytical frameworks for studying global capitalism, and to develop their own arguments and perspectives on the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the world today.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Self-directed - 

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, 

Vol. 3: The Perspectives of the World. 

London: Collins / [For and against Europe: The Rest of the World] 387-404 430-440, 484-497

Europe: The Wheels of Commerce at the Highest Level. Civilization and Capitalism

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850

Escape from Empire: The developing world’s journey through heaven and hell

Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, 

Chapter 14. The world in Depression, 1929-1939

The long twentieth century

Chapter 3, “Building American Embedded Liberalism"

Great Transformations. Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the 20th century

IP1017 - Global Capitalism: Past, Present, Future

IP1017-PRD1-PER-ALV1

Acquisition of knowledge and understanding is promoted through a combination of lectures and interactive classes with a strong emphasis on students' presentations. You are encouraged to undertake extensive reading and independent study in order to understand the topics covered in lectures and classes and to broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject. You also receive feedback on your coursework to encourage you to reflect on what you have produced.

Global Capitalism: Past, Present, Future

Understanding economic history as the interaction of a global system.

Skills

Examine the economic, social, political, and environmental impacts and implications of capitalism and globalization 

Knowledge

Analyse the causes and consequences of the major events, periods, and processes that have shaped the evolution and diversity of capitalism and globalization in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different theoretical perspectives and analytical frameworks for studying the political economy of global capitalism. 

Demonstrate your critical awareness of how power operates in international political economy and in development processes. 

Values and attitudes

Analyse debates surrounding the emergence of an international economy. 

Analyse the main events, processes and actors that have led to the formation of the global economic order in the 20th century.

Gain knowledge of trade and development issues.

Condense and organise the knowledge in order to address the vital case-studies. 

Develop analytical skills to comprehend and reflect upon a series of issues and concepts in IPE.

 Learn how to draw upon relevant scholarship when analysing past and present-day dynamics in global capitalism

Differentiate the relationships between historical information, explanations of historical change and the normative positions of key structures and actors in IPE 