Government and Politics

Course summary

Politics is all about how society manages differing opinions. It is as much about compromise and concession as it is about strength of conviction. It affects every level of daily life, irrespective of your chosen career path or skill base. How is the course taught? The course is taught over two years and is delivered via a mixture of PowerPoints, class discussions, extended reading and guided examination practise. Students cover UK politics in the first year, global politics in the second year and political ideologies across both years. Exam questions are broken down and students are given clear strategies for answering them through sentence starters, model answers and acronyms such as PEEL and PEERC to help them remember how to structure answers.