Module Breakdown – 20th Century Ideas and Movements

Welcome to another module breakdown blog post! So far, I have done 11 posts in this little series on my blog. Essentially, I break down each module and look at it in detail so if you are doing this module, or something very similar, then you know what to expect.

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Year 1 Modules

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This module breakdown post is on 20th Century Ideas and Movements. Without further ado, let’s get to it!

Content

20th Century Ideas and Movements is a compulsory politics module for me on my Law with Politics degree. It was a historical module, looking at different ideas throughout modern times in the UK. We looked at the likes of communism, fascism, socialism, social democracy, conservatism, liberalism and nationalism.

Lectures

I had two lectures for this module a week, each being one hour long. Each lecture focused on a specific topic, such as nationalism or socialism. They were very straight forward lectures, with no interaction whatsoever.

Seminars

I had one seminar a week for this module. This seminar was also an hour long and focused on what we had looked at in the lectures that week. These were much more interactive than the lectures, with questions set that we had to answer.

Assignments

I had two assignments for this module. This was an essay and an exam. The essay was 2500 words, and was worth 50% of the module. We had a choice of 5 questions, and they were all slightly different but had something to do with movements and ideas.

The exam was two hours long, and we had to answer two questions from Section A and Section B. Section A had very specific questions, whereas Section B was much more broad.

Overall thoughts

Overall, I thought this module was okay. It wasn’t really what I expected but I still enjoyed it nonetheless!

And that’s it! Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read this post and I will see you soon for another one!

Beth