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Politics, Power and Systems Change (IIPP0009)

Key information

Faculty
Faculty of the Built Environment
Teaching department
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Credit value
15
Restrictions
N/A
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

The module focusses on understanding systems, actors in the systems, and institutions. This includes an introduction to systems analysis and mapping, encouraging students to take a wide view of problems and their interconnection to other issues, and an exploration of systems change cases.

Particular attention is paid to policy actors and how they act within, and are shaped or constrained by, the systems that they seek to affect. As such, the module critically interrogates simplistic, linear notions of policy making. It also explores theories of power, introducing ideas of agenda-setting and knowledge-production, along with more conventional views bases on conflict and formal hierarchy.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Term 1 ÌýÌýÌý Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study
In person
Methods of assessment
70% Coursework
30% Viva or oral presentation
Mark scheme
Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year
56
Module leader
Professor Rainer Kattel
Who to contact for more information
r.kattel@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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