POLS102-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)

Politics: An Introduction

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course introduces the basic tools and techniques used in political science, including research techniques, formulation of hypotheses, and methods of analysis. It also introduces students to a selection of key theories and frameworks. The course covers topics such as nationalism and ethnicity, democracy, authoritarianism, people's power, conflict, globalisation, and the future of global politics. This course will be of great benefit to Political Science majors of all levels and to students who desire a broad-based introduction to the field. This course is recommended for Political Science majors.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final test 35% Online test will open at 9 a.m. on June 2, and close at 4 p.m. on June 3. Answer 2 essay questions, with a maximum of 1,200 total words for the test, so that you should write about 600 words for each question.
Tutorial participation 10%
Library Resources & Referencing 18 Mar 2022 15%
Hypotheses & Methodology 06 Apr 2022 15%
Research Paper 20 May 2022 25%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $894.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All POLS102 Occurrences

  • POLS102-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025
  • POLS102-25S1 (D) Semester One 2025 (Distance)