Course Learning Outcomes
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;
- An ability to develop ideas and arguments;
- An ability to engage critically with the course material.
Subject Specific
- A comprehensive appreciation of the nature of the development of social and political speculation during the period covered;
- An ability to relate prevalent political and social ideas to the specifics of their historical context - the conflicts, movements, events, etc;
- An appreciation of the essential linkage between the ontological and the epistemological in social and political speculation.