Politics
Exam Board: Edexcel
STRUCTURE OF COURSE
This award is a two year A Level qualification.
Component 1: UK Politics
Component 2: UK Government
Component 3: Comparative Politics (Focus on Global Politics)
ASSESSMENT
Students will sit examinations for all three Components in June.
Each examination is 2 hours long, and each comprises 33.3% of the overall grade.
CONTENT
Component 1
Political Participation: you will study democracy and participation, political parties, electoral systems, voting behaviour and the media.
Core Political Ideas: you will study: conservatism, liberalism, socialism.
Component 2
UK Government: you will study the constitution, parliament, Prime Minister and executive, relationships between the branches.
Optional Political Ideas: you will study one idea from the following: anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism, nationalism.
Component 3
For Global Politics you will study: theories of Global Politics, sovereignty and globalisation, global governance - political and economic, global governance - human rights and environmental, power and developments, regionalism and the European Union
POSSIBLE CAREER PATHS
Careers in Journalism, Law, Research, Policy Development, Local and Central Government as well as Politics.Careers in Journalism, Law, Research, Policy Development, Local and Central Government as well as Politics.
COMPLIMENTARY SUBJECTS
This subject goes very well with History, Economics, Modern Languages, Classics, Geography or Religious Studies. However, Politics fits very well with any combination of subjects.