Sixth Form Subject Choices 2021 - Flipbook - Page 45
What is the course content and how is it assessed?
The aims of the Politics course are to provide you with an awareness of the structures of authority and
power in your own and other societies and how different interests are articulated and reconciled. It covers
political events and issues, and understanding of the main political viewpoints
Paper 1: UK Politics (Paper code: 9PL0/01)
Written exam. 2 hours. 33 % of the A Level.
Content overview:
1. Political Participation, students will study:
Democracy and participation, political parties, electoral systems, voting behaviour and the media.
2. Core Political Ideas, students will study:
Conservatism, liberalism, socialism.
Paper 2: UK Government (Paper code: 9PL0/02)
Written exam. 2 hours. 33 % of the qualification.
Content overview:
1. UK Government, students will study:
The constitution, parliament, Prime Minister and executive, relationships between the branches.
2. Optional Political Ideas, students will study:
One idea from the following: anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism, nationalism.
Paper 3: Global Politics (Paper code: 9PL0 3B)
Written exam. 2 hours. 33 % of the qualification.
Content overview:
Theories of Global Politics, sovereignty and globalisation, global governance: political and economic,
global governance: human rights and environmental, power and developments.
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