POL 315
COURSE GUIDE
exercises for which you need a pen, a notebook, and other materials that
will be listed in this guide. The exercises are to aid you, and to facilitate
your understanding of the concepts and issues being presented. At the
end of each unit, you will be required to submit written assignments for
assessment purposes. At the end of the course, you will write a final
examination.
COURSE MATERIALS
The major components of the course are:
1. Course guide
2. Study units
3. Textbooks
4. Assignment file
5. Presentation schedule.
STUDY UNITS
There are 21 units (organised into four modules) in this course. Some
units may be longer and or more in depth than others, depending on the
scope of the topics that is in focus.
The four modules are as follows:
Module 1
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Module 2
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Module 3
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Karl Marx Dialectics
Laws of Transformation of Quantity to Quality
Law of Unity and Conflict of Opposites
Law of Negation of Negation
Historical Materialism
Historical Epochs
Marxism and the Meaning of Ideology
Alienation
Ideology and False Consciousness
Base and Superstructure
State Power and the Superstructure
Vanguard Party/Proletarian Revolution
Understanding the Meaning of Socialism
Exploitation and Oppression
Utopian Socialism
Marx Scientific Socialism
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