Unit name | Militarisation, Militarism and War |
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Unit code | POLIM3022 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Higate |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit deals with the subjects of militarisation, militarism and war through a focus on the United States and the United Kingdom. Specifically, it explores the material and social relations of militarisation and militarism through an inter-disicplinary approach. The unit has two main aims. First, to develop a critical engagment with the ways in which processes of militarisation and ideologies of militarism shape social relations across a wide range of substantive areas, and second to investigate the role these processes and ideologies play in the actual genesis and sustaining of war. The unit aims to further students' understanding of themes and conecpts that have in recent years bcome increasingly relevant to many spheres of everyday life. This unit is only available to students registered for MSc/Diploma degrees in the Department of Politics. Please note that the Department does not permit the auditing of any of its units.
Aims:
Formative assessment: an oral presentation supported by a hand-out. Summative assessment: a 3,500 to 4,000 word essay
The oral presentation supported by a handout provides formative assessment of the student’s grasp of the substantive issues associated with this unit; of how to engage with that substantive material in an articulate, concise and persuasive way both verbally and in written form; and of the student’s ability to demonstrate the depth of their grasp in the ensuing discussion of the presentation and handout. The essay provides summative assessment of the student’s substantive grasp of the substantive issues associated with this unit; and of how to engage with that substantive material in an articulate and persuasive way in written form which achieves an appropriate degree of depth but which is still concise.