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This course serves as an introduction to the basics of comparative political studies. It is designed to provide the student with a broad comparative overview of the world’s political systems. The main objective is to give students the necessary tools to assess and understand the differences in political culture, political organizations, governmental structures, and political behaviour.
The main objective is to give students the necessary tools to assess and understand the differences in political culture, political organizations, governmental structures, and political behaviour.
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.
This course has three (3) lectures per week. There are no tutorials for this course. Students are responsible for reading and understanding all the assigned materials for this course. The assigned course readings complements the materials taught in class lecture. Note: Attendance to all lectures is a course requirement. Students with more than one lecture day clash/conflict each week with another enrolled course are strongly advised not to enrol for POLS105. As a courtesy and to assist students to revise after each lecture and to help in completing the student’s personal lecture notes, class lectures will be recorded on ECHO recording and can be accessed on the class LEARN page. It is important to note that: 1) each recorded lecture is available for a period of 14 days from the date of the class it was recorded. After the 14-day period has passed, the recorded lecture will be deleted and will therefore not be available;2) the availability of recorded lecture is provided as a courtesy and is not a replacement for class attendance.
Alex Tan
Other readings (if any) will be provided by the instructor through the class LEARN site.
Library portalLearn Referencing for Political Science Using EndNote for referencing Writing guides for Political Science
Essay boxes are located on the 5th floor Locke, outside the POLS office, Locke 501.
Domestic fee $777.00
International fee $3,375.00
* 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 .