POL40380 Ethnicity and Conflict

Academic Year 2016/2017

This seminar course takes a theoretically informed view of how policy priorities come to be shaped and translated into commitments backed by state authority. It will consider themes such as how actors and institutions are conceptualised; policy cycles; how we understand policy change through Europeanization, policy learning and diffusion; the role of new ideas and the institutional context of their reception; and the growth of new modes of governance

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the term, students should:1. be able to identify and assess various approaches to policy making2. be familiar with the main theoretical debates about continuity and change 3. understand different approaches to interactions between actors and institutions

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

24
Autonomous Student Learning

200
Total

224
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.



 
Description % of Final Grade Timing
Essay: Essay 2, 4000 words

50

 Unspecified
Essay: Essay 1, 4000 words

50

 Unspecified

Compensation

This module is not passable by compensation

Resit Opportunities

In-semester assessment

Remediation

Student would submit two essays for resit or remediation.