Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL1025: Classical Political Thought

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level	4
Credits	15	ECTS Value	7.5
Term(s) and duration	This module will run during term 1 (11 weeks)
Academic staff	Dr Jack Tagney (Convenor)
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
Available via distance learning	No

In this first installment of Exeter’s History of Political Thought modules, you will study some of the formative political writings of the Western tradition that have come down to us from the pens of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. You will become acquainted with a world very different from our own, yet one that is the source of many of the concepts, values, institutions, and much of the language, of modern Western politics. ‘Democracy’, ‘tyranny’, ‘justice’, ‘citizen’, ‘republic’, and ‘politics’ itself are all words that have Greek or Latin origins, and refer to ideas crucial to the political thought of the Classical period.

Module created	01/10/2010	Last revised	30/03/2023