Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Power in Crisis: Politics in the 21st Century
This course explored contemporary political crises including climate change, migration, and terrorism, and their impacts on power dynamics.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Jeremy Moulton
Lecturer
University of York
Dr Christopher Featherstone
Associate Lecturer
University of York
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss controversial topics, and apply key concepts to further your understanding
- Discuss key concepts to cases, exploring key debates in politics
- Develop critical understanding of how concepts such as power can be understood, and how different definitions impact real-world debate and policy
Syllabus
- Power: how we can define it, why the differences between definitions are important.
- Crisis: what we mean when we use the term, how the label of crisis may impact debate.
- Climate change: what we mean by the term, how we can confront this challenge, how power affects this attempt.
- Immigration and Migration: how the debate on these is impacted by the power of those trying to frame the discussion.
- Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: what we mean by Terrorism, how the differences in definitions impact how we approach dealing with terrorists.
Issued on 19th February 2025
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