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On the completion of this module, students will be able to:
• read and critically engage with historical and contemporary political theory texts, produced by a variety of liberal thinkers and their critics.
• summarize and explain the central positions of various liberal thinkers in relation to liberty, politics and political economy. This while also being able to contextualise those positions and their supporting arguments by reference to critics from within alternative political and philosophical ideational frameworks.
• Critically assess and write about the concept of political liberty, of the evolving nature of the links between liberalism and democracy and the role of the market economy within different strands of liberal thought.
• Develop and defend their own arguments informed by their reading, the lectures and the seminar discussions, with each session focussed upon the consideration of a given figure within the liberal intellectual traditions and their associated critic.
• develop and defend their own arguments in the form of a clearly structured normative political theory essay by reference to different ideological and philosophical traditions of thought.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Autonomous Student Learning | 200 |
Lectures | 22 |
Total | 222 |
Students intending to take this module should already have successfully completed Level one and two modules in Political Theory: INRL10010 Foundations of Political Theory and IR and POL20010 Individuals and the State, or equivalent.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Not yet recorded. |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Feedback provided individually to students following submission of the mid-term essay preparation form and the end-of-term essay. Feedback provided collectively at the mid-term point by outlining informative general trends found in the mid-term essay preparation form assessment. Further feedback can then be provided through office hours if required by the student.