Government and Politics

Course summary

With an average set size of eight, our students get excellent individual support and attention in the department, and we are proud of our good results record. We run an annual trip to Parliament for the Lower Sixth (Y12) and a study day in Bristol for the Upper Sixth (Y13) as well as taking advantage of visiting speakers and events such as Question Time in the local area. Our students run a Politics Society for younger pupils and lead school events like mock elections, and a model UN conference. Politics is a vibrant and active department and many of our pupils go on to study Politics or International Relations at a higher level, and to work in Politics. What will I study during the course? You will look at UK Politics, and UK government in the first year of the course, as well as Liberalism, Socialism and Conservatism and your individual choice of non-core ideology from Anarchism, Ecologism, Feminism, Multiculturalism and Nationalism. In the second year of the course you will study Global Politics with a comparative international focus. We study democracy and participation; political parties; voting systems and behaviour; core political ideologies; government institutions and their operation and relationships; and global politics.