Policy Briefing

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 20

Essay

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 80

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Drawing on insights from political economy and interdisciplinary perspectives, the module equips students with tools to critically analyse contemporary public policy debates in Britain. Using empirical cases from diverse sectors, students will evaluate the strengths and limitations of competing theoretical approaches and develop their own perspectives on the challenges and opportunities shaping today’s political economy.

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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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? 

When Nothing Works: From Cost of Living to Foundational Liveability. 

Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History. 

IP3058 - The Political Economy of Modern Britain: Power, Policy and Wealth

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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 and class exercises. 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. 
You are expected to undertake extensive, independent reading 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.

This module’s contact hours will be delivered using a number of different approaches. As an example, you may have a combination of in-person sessions (i.e. face to face on campus), and/or online synchronous sessions (participants are engaged at the same time online) and online asynchronous guided activities (you need to plan time to engage with these so you are prepared for the in person and synchronous sessions. These may include viewing recorded lectures and/or other online resources, reading materials, undertaking quizzes, completing exercises and chatting on forums.) In addition to these teaching delivery approaches, you will undertake your own independent study, which may involve wider reading, independent research, skills practice and preparation for assessment. Please see this module’s Moodle page and/or handbook for further information.

The Political Economy of Modern Britain: Power, Policy and Wealth

Demonstrate tolerance towards the opinions of your colleagues.

Values and attitudes

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

Show consideration for the rules and regulations of the University.

Appreciate the complex nature of strategic thought and practice.

Engage critically with key concepts and debates in global political economy.

Skills

Critically evaluate civil society, media, business and academic material on public policy issues. Connect questions about the political economy of Britain to broader issues in trade, public services, climate breakdown and geopolitical rivalry. 

Knowledge

Identify different theoretical perspectives on the political economy of Britain and articulate their own position. 

Formulate clear arguments in written and oral format.

Justify your own positions on a number of topics related to public policy and the British economy.

To conduct independent analysis and write an academically rigorous intervention on contemporary issues.