Module Identifier | IP19910 | ||
Module Title | BEHIND THE HEADLINES: GLOBAL POLITICAL ISSUES 2 | ||
Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Mick Cox | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Mutually Exclusive | GW19910 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 20 Hours 20 x 1 hour Lectures | |
Group Work | Self managed group work | ||
Assessment | Exam | 3 Hours 1 x 3 hour 'open book' examination | 50% |
Group project | 1x 5000 word group reflective log | 50% |
Brief description
This module - an extension of IP 19810 - seeks to focus on what you might already know (the `headlines') and then build upon it (by looking at what is `behind the headlines'). We will identify a series of major contemporary issues in global politics at different levels - from the state of the world to global politics - and seek to explain why the issues are important, what are the main dynamics driving them, and what are their implications. This will be done through a variety of different teaching methods: traditional lectures, the use of video material, roundtables and debates. A number of other non-traditional approaches will be adopted, such as self-managed small groups, an open-book examination and the writing up of a group project. Among the headlines to be explored in this module - together with IP19810 - will be those associated with recent developments in humanitarian intervention, the global economy, developments in the United States and Russia, the state of war, the future of Europe, devolution in the UK, human rights protection, the international drug trade and so on.
Aims
The central aim of the module is to provide an introduction to the critical analysis of a wide selection of global political issues. The module will also provide the opportunity for experiencing a range of different learning environments.
Objectives
On the completion of this module you should be able to
Incompatible modules - GW19910
Reading Lists
Books
Michael Cox, Ken Booth and Tim Dunne.
The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics, 1989-1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Ken Booth.
Statecraft and Secruity. The Cold War and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
John Baylis and Steve Smith.
The Globalization of World Politics. An Introduction to International Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997