On completion of the course students are expected to be able to demonstrate:
General:
- Enhanced skills of academic enquiry and independent library research relevant to the subject.
- Enhanced ability to communicate in writing and orally, and to work independently.
- Enhanced time-management and self-organisation skills.
Subject Specific:
- A comprehensive understanding of specific institutional and constitutional practices in different countries;
- Good knowledge of the salient histories of the case study states;
- Good knowledge of the distribution of power within, and political cultures of,the case study states.