This cross-disciplinary module will enable students to consider a range of important global issues (for example, terror, climate change and technology) and the responses to them at the international, regional and local levels. Approaching each from the three perspectives of social policy, politics and economics, this will support students to identify important integrated approaches in the increasingly globalised social and human world around us. Acting as a compulsory spine module for the PPE programme, the module will use both online and face-to-face teaching as well as group enquiry based learning to help students develop their skills and understanding of key issues and topics relevant to all of the three disciplines, to identify and work with a range of literature and documents and present their research in a variety of ways.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Demonstrate a critical understanding of some of the points of convergence and divergence between social policy, politics and economics;
Demonstrate a critical understanding of a number of global issues and the responses to these at the international, regional and local levels;
Critically analyse global issues using a range of sources and methods.
Assessment
26866-01 : Summative 5000 Word Assignment : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
3500 word essay (100%) for both main and reassessment