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ANTHONY GELL SCHOOL SIXTH FORM ROSPECTUS 2020 — 2022
This A Level Government and Politics Course gives you the knowledge to understand
how government works, particularly in the UK, but also in other countries. Politics
will help you develop your research and analysis skills. It will provide you with a
deeper understanding of governments and give you more information on careers in
politics. Politics is a truly engaging and living subject where events change on daily
basis and have profound consequences for all of our lives.
The course involves three separate units, these are:
GOVERNMENT AND
POLITICS Component 1: UK Politics. Additionally, students will have
This involves an examination of the opportunity to explore one
COURSE OUTLINE — TWO
the key methods of political
YEAR PATHWAY participation including of the following key political
democracy and participation, ideas:
LEVEL 3 / A LEVEL / EDEXCEL
political parties, electoral Ecologism,
systems, voting behaviour and
the media. Additionally, students Feminism,
ENTRY REQUIRMENTS explore the key political ideas of
Socialism, Marxism, Anarchism
FIVE LEVEL 2 GCSE OR
Conservatism and Liberalism.
VOCATIONAL Nationalism.
QUALIFICATIONS AT A
MINIMUM OF GRADE 4/ Component 2: UK Government. Component 3: Global politics.
LEVEL 2 PASS. This involves an examination of This involves an examination of
the key political institutions the following areas: sovereignty
operating in the UK’s political and globalisation, global
system. In this unit students will governance: political and
study: the nature of the evolving economic, global governance:
British constitution, role and human rights and
workings of parliament, the environmental, power and
power of the Prime Minister and developments, regionalism and
executive, and relationships the European Union,
between the three branches of comparative theories.
government.
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