Key facts

Course details for 2009 cohort
Level 1  -  18 credits  -  spring and summer terms

E-learning links

Study Direct: L2066 (09/10)

Resources

Timetable Link
Course handbook 09/10

Course description

Course outline

This course aims to encourage students to connect their everyday life in Brighton to wider currents in world politics and think about why it matters how we theorise international relations and international political economy. Students will undertake research projects (in groups of approx. five) that focus on a Brighton-based empirical phenomenon or issue, and seek to understand the connections between that issue and world politics more generally. In the course of doing their projects, students will be introduced to theoretical debates in IR/IPE and to issues around research design, methodology and method, as well as philosophy of social science.
Course Objectives
1) To connect everyday life in and around Brighton to theories and issues in IR and/or IPE, encouraging students to reflect on the relationships between the local and the global and between theory and empirics.
2) To introduce students to research design, methodology, method and philosophy of social science.
3) To use innovative teaching and learning methods to encourage students to develop their study skills and transferable skills.
4) To give students an opportunity to reflect on their role as students, individuals and community members in Brighton.

Learning outcomes

1. Connect everyday life in and around Brighton to theories and issues in IR and/or IPE.
2. Reflect on the relationships between the local and the global and between theory and empirics.
3. Understand and undertake basic research design.
4. Reflect critically on their own learning.
5. Contribute to a group project.

Assessments

Resit mode of assessment

Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.

Teaching methods

How to read the week pattern

The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.

Contact details

Mr Zdenek Kavan

Assess convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/justice/profile1451.html

Dr Anna Stavrianakis

Assess convenor, Convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/justice/profile200527.html