Politics

Course summary

A Level Politics focuses on three different units across the two-year course, Government and Politics of the UK, Government and Politics of the US and Political Ideas (Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, and one of the following ideologies: Nationalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism, Anarchism, Ecologism). Both of the units that focus on the US and the UK examine the framework of the political systems and the impacts that various factors have on political outcomes (e.g. electoral systems, party systems, pressure groups). The course demands that students engage with politics both inside and outside the classroom. Students must be prepared to take on wider reading, essay writing and debating. A key asset of any politics student is the ability to analyse political ideas and concepts from a variety of perspectives, opening up streams of thought that they might not necessarily agree with.