Government and Politics

Course summary

Few subjects are more central to your everyday life than ‘government and politics’. Politics dominates domestic and foreign news. Political decisions determine how you are educated, housed, cared for in hospital, kept secure from crime and, regardless of your hopes and aspirations for the future, it will shape the society you inherit as adults. In Politics you’ll study the real world and develop skills to make sense of that world in a mature co-educational environment that seeks to replicate how study is undertaken at university. This is therefore a discursive subject that requires you to develop an interest in current affairs in addition to developing an intellectual appreciation of the theories and ideologies that underpin the discipline. Politics is taught in a co-educational environment by two highly experienced examiners and authors, ensuring the best support and up-to-date examples for students.