Source analysis (1,000 words)

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 30

Essay (2,000 words)

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 70

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This module will introduce you to key concepts, thinkers and texts since 1900, and explore the ways in which influential ideas have emerged from and operated within different historical contexts. It will also examine the approaches that historians have taken to investigating modern intellectual history and the history of ideas. The themes and concepts examined in the module may include: social democracy, fascism, conservatism, post-colonialism, neoliberalism, environmentalism, feminism, and populism. These themes will be explored by placing the works of key thinkers and writers in historical context, examining their impact on specific cultures, societies, and political systems, and identifying their use in contemporary politics.

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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Postcolonialism and Political Theory

A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx 

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought 

Feminisms: A Global History

Global Intellectual History

IP2065 - Ideas that Shaped the Century: A History of Political Thought from 1900 to the present

IP2065-PRD1-ALV1

Acquisition of knowledge and understanding is promoted through a combination of lectures and interactive seminars with a strong emphasis on your personal contribution, including if appropriate in the form of student presentations, class exercises, simulations/role plays. This learning process is supported by the use of a wide range of information sources, from books and journal articles to online sources, official documents and audio-visual sources of information. Time will also be set aside (weekly) to answer questions you may have from the readings.
You are expected to undertake extensive reading and independent study in order to: (1) understand the topics covered in the course; (2) broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject; (3) participate actively in the class discussions. You will receive feedback on your coursework to encourage you to reflect on what you have produced and how you can improve.

Ideas that Shaped the Century: A History of Political Thought from 1900 to the present

Reflect on and effectively manage your own learning and make use of constructive feedback

Values and attitudes

Explain and evaluate different approaches to studying the history of ideas, intellectual history, and the history of political thought

Knowledge

Examine and critique the ways in which specific ideas and ideological positions have been deployed to defend moral, political and cultural positions since 1900.

Locate and evaluate primary sources in the online environment

Skills

Describe and identify influential ideas and ideologies from 1900 to the present

Demonstrate a habit of reflection and independent study

Clearly communicate the impact of ideas, ideologies, and major thinkers on historical events and processes since 1900.

Show respect and engage with those who do not share your own political values

Demonstrate an understanding of the ways that influential ideas and ideologies have shaped historical events, social and political movements, and processes

Describe and evaluate different scholarly approaches to studying the history of ideas

Situate key modern ideas and thinkers in their historical context

Think critically and argue persuasively using primary and secondary sources from the history of ideas

Produce written materials that indicate in a precise and honest manner what your own work is and what is attributable to others