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Global Justice - POL00003H

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  • Department: Politics and International Relations
  • Module co-ordinator: Information currently unavailable
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: H
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

  • To provide a grounding in theories of global justice
  • To develop students' analytical skills
  • To develop students' ability to relate theoretical material to concrete cases

Module learning outcomes

  • To provide a grounding in theories of global justice
  • To develop students' analytical skills
  • To develop students' ability to relate theoretical material to concrete cases

Indicative assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Essay 3000 words		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Essay 3000 words		 N/A 100

Module feedback

Students will receive written timely feedback on their formative assessment. They will also have the opportunity to discuss their feedback during the module tutor’s feedback and guidance hours.

Students will receive written feedback on their summative assessment no later than six weeks after submission; and the module tutor will hold a specific session to discuss feedback, which students can also opt to attend. They will also have the opportunity to discuss their feedback during the module tutor’s regular feedback and guidance hours.

Indicative reading

Simon Caney, (2005), Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory (Oxford: OUP)

Kok-Chor Tan, (2004), Justice without Borders (Cambridge: CUP)

Michael Blake, (2005), 'International Justice', in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available online at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/international-justice/

Jon Mandle, (2006) Global Justice: An Introduction (Cambridge, Polity Press)

Held, D. (ed) (2002) Governing Globalization: Power, Authority, and Global Governance (Cambridge: Polity Press).

Woods, N. (2006) The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers (Cornell: University Press).


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