6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1022290ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
Department
Political Science
External partners
Universiteit Gent
Educational team
Sami Zemni (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

39 contact hours Lecture
111 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course offers a general and systematic overview of the evolution of modern political ideas and ideologies. The course embeds the emergence of political ideas and ideologies in the political, social and economic context in which these ideas and ideologies emerged. To quote Bronowski and Mazlish: “Ideas are not dead thoughts, even when they are no longer contemporary; for they remain steps in the evolution of contemporary ideas. We have wanted to present the ideas of each age not as fossils but as evolving organisms, and not as butterflies in a box but as the vital processes of the human mind. This is a history of the life of ideas: active, mobile, and changing” (1960: xii). The focus of the course is the idea of emancipation and more specifically the tensions, contradictions and parallels in changing views on equality and liberty and how these ideas evolved, over time, in relation to the Other, i.e. the non-Western world. This course thus aims to familiarize students with the relations between political thought, historical context and concrete political movements striving for emancipation. Therefore the course offers a framework for analyzing political ideas, ideologies and action in the present day world.

Additional info

Not applicable.

Learning Outcomes

General Competences

At the end of the course, students will have acquired the following competences and skills:

LO1: They have an active knowledge of the key concepts and theories in theories of (political) ideas and ideologies. They are able to use and discuss these concepts and theories, and apply them to real life events.

LO2: They are familiar with the historical roots of ideologies.

LO3: They understand the functioning of ideologies, their historical evolution and different forms. They are also familiar with the broader historical context in which these ideologies and political ideas have developed.

LO4: They can interpret and analyze current political issues and discussions using the specific concepts and ideas and of the history of ideologies.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Not applicable.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Communication Studies
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Political Sciences
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Startplan