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Edge Hill University recognises studying gained elsewhere, whether or not via tutorial credit score and skills acquired from other relevant courses of research or via recognition of a person’s professional and employment experience (also referred to as ‘experiential studying’). Black Life and Black Protest in the United States Since 1945 analyses the explanations for the emergence of the submit-struggle civil rights motion within the 1950s and 1960s. The contribution of main people within the motion, like Martin Luther King, is also examined together with the life and profession of Malcolm X and the Black Power movement of the late Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies. The module concludes by assessing the legacy of the civil rights period for present day race relations and the extent to which the election of Barack Obama in 2008 implies that the United States can now be described as a publish-racial society.

The module is aimed to introduce college students to Marxist concept and to enable them to evaluate both the modern and historic significance of Marxism in world politics. Students are expected to read a few of the key texts of Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels and to contemplate various interpretations and critiques of Marxist strategies, writings and theories. Students are additionally expected to contemplate the political contexts in which these theories and debates emerged and their implications for political apply. Students are not anticipated to show any detailed knowledge of the historical past of Marxist-inspired governments, regimes or political actions. This module introduces college … Read More