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
AS Unit F851 Contemporary Politics of the UK
- Political parties
- Pressure groups
- Electoral systems and referenda
- UK parliamentary elections
- Voting behaviour in the UK
AS Unit F852 Contemporary Government of the UK
- The constitution
- The executive (mandatory)
- The legislature (mandatory)
- The judiciary
- The European Union
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.
