Politics

Course summary

The Politics A-Level helps you to explore contemporary political issues which hit the news every day. From striking unions; electoral reform; brexit; and protest movements - we explore the motivations and reasonings behind these phenomena. You will develop into a critical thinker as we explore not just political realities of the present but also how politics and society should look. Teaching will be through enquiry questions that encourage you to investigate issues, analyse the evidence and arguments, and make up your own mind on political issues. he A level is broken up into three main constituent parts: UK Government and Politics; Political Ideas; and Comparative Politics. Within this each part is broken up further; UK Politics examines democracy and participation, political parties, electoral systems, and voting behaviour and media. The UK government examines the constitution, parliament, Prime Minister and Executive, and relationships between the branches. Political Ideas focuses on three core ideologies of Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism and one of the following ideologies: anarchism, feminism, ecologism, nationalism, and multiculturalism (we teach feminism in school). Comparative Politics will focus on sovereignty and globalisation; global governance; political and economic global governance; human rights and environmental power and developments; regionalism; and the European Union.