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Overview

The course is designed to encourage students to develop a critical awareness of the nature of government and politics and to provide a sense of the rights and responsibilities of the individual within society.

Prior knowledge of the subject is not required. However, students are expected to have achieved grade C or above in English GCSE or an equivalent standard in communication skills.

The course provides a solid foundation for those who wish to go onto Higher Education and follow course in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Students who plan to enter employment directly, will benefit from having acquired the relevant skills in; analysis, communication and decision making process.

Specification aims

The aims of these specifications are to encourage students to:

• Develop a critical awareness of the nature of government and politics and the relationship between political ideas, institutions and processes.
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of the structures of authority and power within the devolved political system of the Unites Kingdom, and how these may differ from those of other political systems.
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of Government and Politics beyond the context of the political system of the United Kingdom.
• Acquire knowledge of Government and Politics and of the rights and responsibilities of individuals in order to encourage participation by students within their society.
• Discover and explore the ideologies, theories and traditions which determine the nature of our society and the shape of UK institutions and to assess the adequacy of existing arrangements for ensuring representative democracy and full participation.
• Encourage students to develop their capacity for critical thinking, to see relationships between different aspects of the subject of Government an Politics and to perceive their field of study in a broader perspective.
• Extend students´ knowledge and understanding beyond the context of the political system of the UK to include the governmnet and politics of the Unites States of America or alternatively to Political Ideas and Concepts.
• Allow students to research in depth an area of genuine interest to the student which arises naturally from the course of study.
• Draw togehter in the synoptic units (Units 2698 and 2699) the knowledge, understanding and skills learned in different parts of the Advanced GCE course. Sypnotic assessment in Government and Politics involves the explicit assessment of understanding of the connections between the areas of study included in the sections below listing 'Knowledge and Understanding' and 'Skills'.

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