AMST30190 Public Diplomacy (L3)

Academic Year 2024/2025

This module will analyse historical and emergent roles of public diplomacy as the ‘soft power’ wing of American foreign policy. Key issues include: strategic communications and information warfare; the promotion of educational and cultural programmes; private/public networks and the role of non-state actors and NGOs in delivering and contesting public diplomacy goals; and the impact of new media technologies on public diplomacy. We will examine ways in which public diplomacy strategies are tied to (but also in tension with) foreign policy initiatives.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Students will learn about key ideas and concepts in Public Diplomacy. They will work with multidisciplinary sources and texts and develop skills of critical analysis and interpretation.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

12
Autonomous Student Learning

88
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Classroom discussion based on assigned readings

Each student will make a formal presentation 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered

Not yet recorded.

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback both pre- and post-assessment