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QI4501: ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLITICS (2023-2024)

Last modified: 05 Oct 2023 08:46


Course Overview

Energy and Climate Politics is a course designed to increase understanding of how energy and climate politics affects conventional political analysis and vice versa. EU politics of energy, controversies surrounding electricity market reform in the UK, how problems of energy security and climate change interact are among the topics.
How contemporary political issues are illustrated by energy issues is an important subject for discussion - for example electricity policy and the debate about the referendum and devolution and the issue of how different political systems work in their policy consultation patterns are important topics in the course.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr David Toke

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Master Of Arts In Politics & International Relations (Qatar)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

There will be a study of international politics of climate change; the attempts to agree international agreements about climate change and also energy policies at a global and European level. The interaction with the politics of (energy) resource depletion including oil and gas politics will be studied. The emergence and outcome of energy policies in the UK will be studied, including an emphasis on the politics of Electricity Market Reform and also how energy policies interact with devolution arrangements especially in regard of renewable energy.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseTo achieve an understanding of the main issues of energy and climate change politics.
ConceptualEvaluateTo achieve an understanding of how issues in energy and climate politics relate to political theory.

Oral Presentation: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
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Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseTo achieve an understanding of the main issues of energy and climate change politics.
ConceptualEvaluateTo achieve an understanding of how issues in energy and climate politics relate to political theory.

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseTo achieve an understanding of the main issues of energy and climate change politics.
ConceptualEvaluateTo achieve an understanding of how issues in energy and climate politics relate to political theory.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseTo achieve an understanding of the main issues of energy and climate change politics.
ConceptualEvaluateTo achieve an understanding of how issues in energy and climate politics relate to political theory.

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