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A-LEVEL Politics

5 STEPS TO SUCCESS

Independent Learning: a minimum of 5 hours per week consistently going

over your notes and summarising key

information. Make your notes your own,

personalise them.

Watch a serious news program at least 3

times each week. This could be BBC news, Channel 4 news or

Newsnight.

Read a serious newspaper. You can do this in the LRC.

Make sure you keep up-to-date with UK

news and international news.

Attend all your lesson and complete all set activites, including Prechewed Politics.

Develop your reading skills - read sources with care and follow

your teacher's instructions on how

to approach the essay. Study past papers and mark

schemes.

A LEVEL ORDER OF WORK

Year 2: Sep 2019 - Jul 2020

Topics Breakdown Unit Hours

Induction Introduction to Ideologies

Introducing Liberalism

4.5 hours taught time 5 hours independent study

Ideologies Liberalism

Liberalism: Core ideas and principles

Key Themes: Human nature, state, society, economy,

Liberalism and freedom; liberalism and individualism, rationalism and social justice

Liberalism 1 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Tensions Differing views and tensions within Liberalism 2 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Key thinkers Locke, Wollstonecraft, Mill Rawls and Friedan 3 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Ideologies Conservatism

Introduction to conservatism

Core ideas and principles

Key Themes: Human nature, state, society, economy,

Pragmatism and tradition, human imperfection, paternalism, one nation and the new right

Conservatism 1 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Tensions Differing views and tensions within Conservatism 2 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Key Thinkers Hobbes, Burke, Oakeshott, Rand, Nozick 3

9 hours taught time 10 hours independent

study

October half term

Ideologies Socialism

Introduction to socialism

Core ideas and principles Socialism 1 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Key themes: Human nature, state, society and economy

Collectivism, equality, revolution, social democracy and third way

Tensions Differing views and tensions within socialism 2 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Key thinkers Marx, Webb, Luxemburg, Crosland, Giddens 3 9 hours taught time

10 hours independent study

Mock exams n/a

Christmas Break

Ideology Option Unit Introduction to the option unit Component 2

Component 2

4.5 hours taught time 5 hours independent study

Core ideas and principles 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Tensions within the ideas and links with global politics unit 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Key thinkers 9 hours taught time

10 hours independent study

February half term

Component 3 Global Politics

Introduction to Global politics

Theories of global politics: realism, liberalism anarchical society

Component 3 6.2 6.2

4.5 hours taught time 5 hours independent study

Theories of Global Politics

Global governance and evaluation of the extent to which realism and liberalism explain recent developments in global politics 6.3 6.4

4.5 hours taught time 5 hours independent study

The state and globalisation

The process of globalisation and its impact on states

Advantages and disadvantages of globalisation 1.1 1.2 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Easter break

The state and globalisation

The way globalisation addresses issues such as poverty, conflict, human rights and the environment 1.3 1.4

4.5 hours taught time 5 hours independent study

Global Governance Political Governance: the role of the United Nations and NATO 2.1 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

Political and Economic Governance

Economic Governance: the role and impact of organisations such as the Word Bank, International Monetary Fund and WTO

How do these institutions deal with poverty?

2.3 4.5 hours taught time

5 hours independent study

May half term

Global Governance Human Rights: International laws and institutions such as the International Criminal Court

The rise of humanitarian interventions, impact on state sovereignty

3.1 3.2

4.5 hours taught time 5 hours independent study

Human rights and environmental

governance

Environmental governance: climate change

How do international institutions address the issues of global environmental governance?

Obstacles to international co-operation on environmental issues.

3.3

4.5 hours taught time 5 hours independent study

Power and Developments

Hard and soft power

Great powers, super powers, BRICS

Polarity: does the USA hold all the power or do we live in a multi-power world?

4.1 4.2 4.3

9hours taught time 10 hours independent

study Power and Developments

Different types of governments: liberal democracies, non- democratic states

The spread of the rule of law, democracy and liberal economies

Changing relationships between states

4.4 4.5 4.6

Regionalism and the EU

The growth of regionalism and the growth of regional organisations such as the EU, the African Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement

5.1 5.2

9 hours taught time 10 hours independent

study The EU The significance of the EU as an international body.

How does regionalism address issues such as conflict, poverty, human rights and the environment? Making links with Ideologies.

5.4. 5.5

Politics A Level Exams Component 1: UK politics 21 May 2020 (2 hours) morning

Component 2: UK government 4 June 2020 (2 Hours) morning

Component 3: Global 11 June 2020 (2 hours) morning

End of year

SUPPORT FOR GUIDED STUDY It is essential that you are spending several hours a week (per subject) in order to access the higher grades for your programme of study. Research shows

the following methods really help you to retain information longer term and therefore better preparing you for exams:

SPACED PRACTICE

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE

INTERLEAVING

DUAL CODING

Don’t forget excellent attendance to lessons

is crucial to achieving high grades and your

teachers will be developing your exam skills

regularly in class!