Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL2050: Political Philosophy

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

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Issues and authors covered by the module may vary from year to year. Some of themes covered may comprise:
Rawls’s theory of justice and his critics; the liberal communitarian debate; theories and types of equality; theories of liberty: negative, positive, republican; deliberation and public reason; citizenship, multiculturalism, recognition, and solidarity; civic, cosmopolitan, and environmental rights/duties; forms of powers and their critique; discourses of difference

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
27.5	122.5

...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	16.5	11 x 1.5 hour lectures
Scheduled learning and teaching activity	10	10 x 1 hour tutorials
Scheduled learning and teaching activity	1	Review session
Guided Independent study	122.5	A variety of private study tasks directed by module leader

Online Resources

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