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Criticise the political world through the lens of networks.
Evaluate how political actors are affected by their position in the social network.
Understand the informal dimensions of politics, especially in non-democratic regimes.
Develop familiarity with standard network measures (clustering, centrality, etc.).
Critically evaluate some of the key social network concepts (brokerage, diffusion, learning, etc.).
Implement rudimentary network analysis.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 200 |
Total | 224 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment(Including Essay): Data Project (essay) | Week 8 | Graded | No | 30 |
No |
Quizzes/Short Exercises: Pop-Quiz 1 (MCQ) | Week 5 | Graded | No | 10 |
No |
Quizzes/Short Exercises: Pop-Quiz 2 (MCQ) | Week 10 | Graded | No | 10 |
No |
Exam (In-person): End of term exam (mix of MCQ and short answers) | End of trimester Duration: 1 hr(s) |
Graded | No | 50 |
No |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | Yes - 1 Hour |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
The normal university policy of feedback on all components within 20 working days will be applied.