| Module Identifier |
IPM1220 |
| Module Title |
CRITICAL SECURITY STUDIES: EMERGING ISSUES (RT) |
| Academic Year |
2007/2008 |
| Co-ordinator |
To Be Arranged |
| Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
| Next year offered |
N/A |
| Next semester offered |
N/A |
| Mutually Exclusive |
IPM1230 |
| Course delivery |
Seminars / Tutorials | 22 Hours. (1 x 2 hour seminar per week) |
| Assessment |
| Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
|---|
| Semester Assessment | Review article: 1 x 2,000 words | 40% |
| Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 3,000 words | 60% |
| Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Teaching Programme Administrator in the Department of International Politics. | |
|
Learning outcomes
On completing the module students will be able to:
- describe, analyse and assess security relations at a state-societal level in both the developing and developed world;
- analyse, evaluate and critically discuss the policy responses to the new security agenda, and the alternatives to them; and,
- apply research design skills to the specific field of security studies.
Brief description
This module provides subject-specific training for students on the `Research training? pathway in Security Studies through an exploration of emerging issues on the global security agenda.
Aims
This module aims to allow students to develop the ability to analyse, evaluate and discuss:
- security relations at a state-societal level in both the developing and developed world;
- the inter-relationship between global processes and specific security dynamics; and,
- the policy responses to the new security agenda, and the alternatives to them.
Content
Following a consideration of the so-called `human security? agenda widely adopted by contemporary international organisations, the module considers a variety of emerging security issues in the developing and developed worlds all in the context of globalising political-economic structures.
Transferable skills
Students on the module will learn to think about the relationship between theory and practice in the field of security studies with a particular focus on contemporary issues, problems and debates. Throughout the module, students should practice and enhance their reading, comprehension and thinking skills and their self-management skills. In seminars students will enhance their analytical skills and will practice listening, explaining and debating skills, as well as team-working skills. The assessed seminar will further develop analytical and communication skills. Essay writing will encourage students to practice their independent research, writing and IT skills.
Reading Lists
Books
B Buzan, et al (1998) Security: A New Framework for Analysis
Boulder: Lynne Reinner
K Krause and M Williams eds (1997) Critical Security Studies: Concepts and Cases
University of Minnesota Press
R Lipschutz ed (1995) On Security
New York: Columbia University Press
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7