Degree | Type | Year |
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2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OB | 2 |
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There are no formal requirements for this course. However, it is taken for granted that students have the necessary skills to engage with texts, present them in open sessions and to critically discuss their contents.
This course is obligatory in the second year of the degree programme, and provides an introduction to the theoretical and methodological basis for the development of politics in the West up until the 20th century.
The course has as its basic objective the study of the main thinkers and schools of thought of the Western tradition of political thought, and by analysing these thinkers and schools, the course seeks to offer a coherent vision of the main questions raised, the answers to these questions, and the debates surrounding them.
On these foundations, students should be able to not only develop the basic concepts of political thought, but also to go on, in the course Political Thought, to study more recent debates and tendencies.
Part I. From Antiquity to the Modern World
Part II. The emergence of the Modern State
Part III. Modern Western Political Ideologies
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Assessments of Readings | 12 | 0.48 | 1, 12, 13, 17, 18 |
Lecture | 68 | 2.72 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14 |
Presentation of essays (2 in total) | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 30 | 1.2 | 15, 20 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous study | 150 | 6 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14 |
Evaluation activities | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20 |
The dedication of the student to this subject is divided into several types of activities, each with a specific weight of hours of work.
This subject is of 12 ECTS, that is to say, it implies a total dedication of the student of 300 hours, distributed as follows:
- The supervised activities are activities in the classroom, with the presence of the teacher and can consist of lectures, seminars for discussion of compulsory readings in smaller groups and sessions oriented to practical questions related to the subject of the course. These activities represent around 35% of the total work required.
- The supervised activities are activities carried out by the student outside the classroom in accordance with a work plan designed and subsequently tutored and evaluated by the teacher. These activities will revolve around the preparation of two essays, one for each semester. These activities represent 10% of the student's dedication.
- The autonomous activities are all those that the student does on his/her own account such as basic and complementary readings, study of class notes or all those other activities that complement the learning process of the course. They represent 55%.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Assessments of Readings (6 in total) | 25% | 12 | 0.48 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20 |
First Term Exam | 25% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20 |
Presentation of Essays (2 in total) | 25% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
Second Term Exam | 25% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20 |
The evaluation of this subject consists of the following parts:
- Two partial exams: each one of them represents 25% of the final grade (50% of the total). It is a necessary condition to pass the subject to pass the two partial exams with a minimum grade of passed (5 out of 10).
- A minimum of 6 seminars (reading controls), whose value will be 25% of the final grade of the subject.
- Two essays: each one of them represents 12.5% of the grade (25% of the total). Both must be handed in in order to to pass the subject.
There are some particularly notable considerations about the conditions of the evaluation system:
- The exam of the first semester will be at the end of the semester, the date of which will be set by the Faculty and made public well in advance. The same applies to the second semester exam.
- The dates for the readings controls, as well as the handing in and presentations of the essays will be specified in the teaching program of the subject.
- Students who have not passed the first or the second exam (or both exams) will have the opportunity to take part in the compensation activities, that is, they can retake the exams on the day determined by the Faculty. This will be after the end of the second term.
- Students who have passed the two exams have not achieved the overall minimum grade to pass the subject will have the opportunity to do one of the two exams (or both, if necessary) in order to increase their overall grade for the course. However, there will be no possibility of doing reading controls outside established schedules or repeating papers already submitted.
- When the evaluation activities carried out by the student exceed 15%, the student will no longer be able to request a not-presented.
- Finally, if, during the course – particularly with regards the essays – any form of plagiarism is detected (copying work from other years, web pages web, books, etc.), the student will be given a fail and will have to repeat the course in its entirety on another occasion.
Evaluation Activities |
Hours |
Learning Outcomes |
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Assessment 1 |
2 hours |
Demonstrate a sufficient knowledge of the texts and a sufficient degree on intellectual maturity in order to be able to present the main ideas in a critical and comprehensive way. |
Assessment 2 |
2 hours |
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Assessment 3 |
2 hours |
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Assessment 4 |
2 hours |
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Assessment 5 |
2 hours |
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Assessment 6 |
2 hours |
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Essay 1. During Term 1. |
2 hours |
Deepen the student’s understanding of one of the key themes of the term. |
Essay 2. During Term 2. |
2 hours |
Deepen the student’s understanding of one of the key themes of the term.. |
End of term exam for first semester. |
2,5 hours |
Parts I and II of the programme. |
End of term exam for second term. |
2,5 hours |
Part III of the programme. |
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Single Assessment
The single assessment consists of the following:
The teaching staff responsible for the subject will set the dates for the completion of these assessments on the first day of class, always in accordance with the academic calendar set by the Faculty
All three parts of the assessment are recoverable.
In order to participate in the recovery, students must have passed all the scheduled tests
Finally, if any type of plagiarism is detected during some of the planned activities, especially during the course work (regarding work from other years, websites, books, etc.), the subject will be suspended as a whole and will have to be repeated in its entirety.
Primary Bibliography
Part I
The Greek Polis
Roma
The Political Doctrines and the Emergence of Christianity
Part II
Part III
Ideology
Liberalism
Conservadurismo
Socialismo
Anarquismo
Feminismo
Nacionalismo
Totalitarismo
Bibliografia secundaria
In the case of on-line classes: Teams
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Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(SEM) Seminars | 1 | English | annual | morning-mixed |
(SEM) Seminars | 51 | Catalan | annual | afternoon |
(TE) Theory | 1 | English | annual | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 51 | Catalan | annual | afternoon |