Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

The module aims are: To introduce the main theoretical approaches and conceptual debates relevant to a detailed analysis of the place of the United States within contemporary international relations and in particular foreign policy analysis and security studies; To develop understanding and interpretation of the actors, institutions and processes of foreign and national security policy-making within the United States; To enable a holistic understanding of US national security through merging insights and concepts from the disciplines of US foreign policy analysis, US defence studies, and the study of international security; To offer opportunities for understanding and explaining of the United States’ place within the international system and its relationship with other states and non-state actors; To offer informed discussion of several contemporary issues and challenges facing the United States in its foreign relations and providing a challenge to US security; To develop students’ skills in the effective collection and interpretation of information from diverse sources; To develop students’ abilities to argue cogently, concisely and critically.

Principal learning outcomes

N/a

Departmental link

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/studymasters/pgmodules/po983

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
40 CATS (Module code: PO983-40)
A1 (Assessed work only)	1st short essay (2500 words)	17%
	2nd short essay (2500 words)	33%
	5000 word essay	50%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

• Double MA in Politics and International Studies (with Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) (M93H) - Year 2
• Double MA in Politics and International Studies (with Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) (M93J) - Year 2
• Double MA in Journalism, Politics and International Studies (with Monash University) (M94J) - Year 2
• Double MA in Politics and International Service (with American University, Washington DC) (M95J) - Year 2
• Double MA in Global Governance (with University of Waterloo, Canada) (M96J) - Year 2
• Postgraduate Taught United States Foreign Policy (M9PQ) - Year 2
• Double MA in Journalism, Politics and International Studies (with Monash University) (M9PV) - Year 2
• Double MA in Politics and International Service (with American University, Washington DC) (M9PW) - Year 2
• Double MA in Global Governance (with University of Waterloo, Canada) (M9PX) - Year 2

Optional

• Postgraduate Taught Politics (M1P0) - Year 2