Politics
We follow the OCR Government & Politics specification. Lower Sixth students will take two modules based on UK politics at the end of the academic year and in Upper Sixth will take the United States module in January and a comparative politics module in June.
Course content
A2 Unit F853 Contemporary US Government & Politics:
- Elections, presidential and congressional
- Political parties
- Pressure groups
- The constitution
- Congress
- The presidency
- The Supreme Court
- Civil rights and liberties
A2 Unit F855 US Government & Politics:
- Elections
- Political parties and pressure groups
- Civil rights and liberties
- Constitutions
- Legislatures
- Executives
- Judiciaries
Assessment
Assessment at both A2 and AS reflects the need to develop the skills the examiners are looking for therefore frequent essays and data-responses are a feature of the course.
