Government and Politics

Course summary

If you feel it is important to understand the relationship between political ideas and political institutions, then this is the course for you! A study of Politics will provide you with the skills to become more critically aware of the nature of politics and political ideas both in the UK and the USA. You will study several core political concepts, such as democracy, socialism, liberalism and feminism. Politics is an academically rigorous subject that will give you the chance to argue your point of view cogently and persuasively and present a well-turned argument, both on paper and orally. The emphasis will be on analysis and investigation. Politics combines especially well with History, Economics, Languages, Classics and Geography but also has a significant contribution to make to the understanding of Maths and the Sciences.