पाठ्यक्रम परिवर्तनशीलता

पाठ्यक्रमबारे सारश

The course explores many of the questions about human beings that excite great passions, enabling students to consider them in a coherent and detached manner, drawing on the great traditions of social science; it encourages students to think for themselves about these questions and to understand why others answer them differently.

कार्यक्रमका खाकाहरू

Year 1: Introduction to 2 of the 3 core disciplines of politics, psychology and sociology, participants look at questions about gender, social inequality, the media, the state, democracy, war and peace, child development, groups and crowds, ethnic minorities, and kinship; the 3rd and 4th papers can be chosen to give greater breadth, or be in a more closely-related field, such as communication and language for those interested in psychology, or in international relations for those interested in politics. Year 2: Students choose 1 of 4 pathways (politics and international studies, psychology, sociology, or psychology and sociology) to focus on; in politics and international studies, participants take 1 paper in the history of political thought, 1 paper in comparative politics, and 1 in world politics; in psychology, students take 1 paper in social psychology, 1 in either experimental or biological and cognitive psychology (both of which involve laboratory experiments), and another in research methods and statistics, which includes a research project designed with the help of a supervisor; in sociology, students take 3 papers; the 1st deals with new developments in social theory; for the 2nd students can choose between a paper on elementary research methods (which includes a personal research project) and 2 long essays on subjects of choice; and for the 3rd they can select either a paper on globalization or 1 on comparative and international politics; in psychology and sociology, students take papers in social psychology, research methods and statistics, and choose between the 2 papers in sociology. Year 3: Students study either 1 or 2 papers from the pathway taken and the remaining papers can be picked from a selection offered in other subjects and from a range of interdisciplinary papers.

योग्यता

अण्डरग्राजुएट योग्यता

प्रदान गर्ने निकाय

University of Cambridge

विभागको नाम

Politics and International Studies