b'Politics Advanced General Certificate of EducationSubject OverviewHow lessons are taughtAn understanding of politics and how governmentPolitics lessons will be taught using a wide range of works is not only an interesting and stimulatingactive learning approaches including personal enquiry, academic issue but arguably is vital in a modern worlddebate, group activities and fieldwork, as well as formal where democracy and democratic values are beingclassroom based activities. We will also invite guest challenged in all corners of the world. The rise ofspeakers from a local/regional and national level as well populism and support for strong leaders often leads tolooking at the feasibility of visits to Parliament.large swathes of people abandoning democratic valuesProgressionor supporting more extreme and radical ideas. Even a cursory understanding of current affairs illustrates thisStudying A Level Politics will equip students with a well.number of skills including a questioning and critical The A Level is taught over two years and consists ofthinking approach to research enquiry, which in turn three components: will prepare them well for higher education courses or a wide range of career choices, such as Law, political UK Politicsjournalism the business world and media. Politics A Political Participation. Students will study:Level is recognised as a facilitating A Level by most democracy and participation, political parties,universities including the Russell Group. Equally, electoral systems, voting behaviour and the media. employers and universities know that students of Core Political Ideas. Students will study:Politics have a great understanding of the world around conservatism, liberalism, socialism. them and how it works. Politics affects all aspects of society including the economy and business, making UK Governmentit applicable to virtually all types of jobs. The research, analytical and presentational skills you learn and how to UK Government. Students will study: therecognise and assess different arguments are precisely constitution, parliament, Prime Minister andthe skills you need to operate in the world of work, as executive, relationships between the branches. well as equipping students with the knowledge of how Non-core political ideas. Students will study: oneto navigate this increasingly complex world.idea from the following: anarchism, ecologism, feminism, multiculturalism, nationalism.Comparative PoliticsUSAExam Board AQAFor Comparative USA. Students will study: theSubject Leader Mr R Furlong andUS Constitution and federalism, US Congress, USMr J Wrenshall-Jonespresidency, US Supreme Court and civil rights,Specific Entry Requirements: democracy and participation, comparative theories.6 GCSEs (Grades 9-5) including Mathematics Grade 6 in a Humanities subject and in English Language or Literature www.ttsonline.net 43'