Politics
Political Behaviour across Generations and the Life Course
Module POC3145 for 2022/3
Module POC3145 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3145: Political Behaviour across Generations and the Life Course
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
While precise content will vary from year to year, the teaching activity will include lectures and seminar activities based on the following topics:
- What is ‘political’? Defining and measuring ‘political participation’
- Learning to be political? Political socialisation
- Political participation across generations
- Political participation across the life cycle
- Political participation in the here and now: the role of context
- Generational trends in political participation: Civic decline vs. Democratic Phoenix
- Reducing inequalities in political participation
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminar |
| Guided Independent Study | 65 | Private study, reading and preparing for seminars (approx. 6 hours per seminar) |
| Guided Independent Study | 25 | Researching and writing critical journal article comparison |
| Guided Independent Study | 35 | Researching and writing essay |
| Guided Independent Study | 3 | Receiving and reflecting on feedback |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
