Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2065: Spies, Secrets and Lies

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

- Introduction to Module: Definitions, Events, Popular Discourse

- Reason of State: If you can’t feign, you can’t reign?

- Liberalism and Public Reason: Can Liberal Democracies Deceive?

- The Gaze of Transparency

- Propaganda and the Media

- Freedom of Information and the Quality of Deliberation

- Selling the Iraq War: An Honourable Deception?

- International Transparency and Inspection Regimes

- Intelligence Oversight: Security vs. Human Rights?

- The Politics of Leaking: The Pentagon Papers, Wikileaks and Snowden

- Debate

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 Activity	22	11 x 2 hour seminars
Guided independent study	15	Composing entries for online discussion forum
Guided independent study	45	Reading assignments and preparing responses for seminar questions
Guided independent study	40	Research and composition of essay
Guided independent study	28	Research and preparation of parliamentary debate

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

http://vle.exeter.ac.uk