Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Online
Module Offerings
4500BCIRDL-SEP-PAR
Aims
1. To identify the key issues in the discipline of International Relations.
2. To examine the interplay between IR theories and historical realities.
3. To familiarise the students with the key concepts and methods that IR deploys to analyse the world
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explain the issues and debates in the subject area of IR.
2.
Identify key historical stages in the development of IR theories.
3.
Employ the differing theories of IR in order to understand contemporary affairs.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Topics discussed will typically include the following:
• Exploring the birth of International Relations as a subject to study
• Applying theories to the real world
• Traditional IR I: Liberalism and liberal-institutionalism
• Traditional IR II: Realism and neo-realism
• Traditional IR III: English School and constructivism
• Critical Approaches I: Marxism and Historical Sociology
• Critical Approaches II: Poststructuralism and Gender
Topics discussed will typically include the following:
• Exploring the birth of International Relations as a subject to study
• Applying theories to the real world
• Traditional IR I: Liberalism and liberal-institutionalism
• Traditional IR II: Realism and neo-realism
• Traditional IR III: English School and constructivism
• Critical Approaches I: Marxism and Historical Sociology
• Critical Approaches II: Poststructuralism and Gender
Module Overview:
To help you understand the world in which we live in today, this module provides asolid grounding in the study of international affairs through the varying theories thathave been developed throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries. Through discussingthese theories, we also examine how they have informed the international systemand the institutions and practices that operate within it. A skills specific session willbe incorporated in this module.
To help you understand the world in which we live in today, this module provides asolid grounding in the study of international affairs through the varying theories thathave been developed throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries. Through discussingthese theories, we also examine how they have informed the international systemand the institutions and practices that operate within it. A skills specific session willbe incorporated in this module.