POL 315
COURSE GUIDE
COURSE OVERVIEW AND PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
Unit Title of Work Weeks
Activity
Module 1 Karl Marx Dialectics
Unit 1 Laws of Transformation of Week 1 Assignment 1
Quantity to Quality
Unit 2 Law of Unity and Conflict of
Opposites
Week 1 Assignment 2
Unit 3 Law of Negation of Negation Week 2 Assignment 3
Unit 4 Historical Materialism Week 2 Assignment 4
Unit 5 Historical Epoch Week 3 Assignment 5
Module 2 Marxism And The Meaning
of Ideology
Unit1 Alienation Week 3 Assignment 1
Unit 2 Ideology and False Week 4 Assignment 2
Consciousness
Unit 3 Base and Superstructure Week 4 Assignment 3
Unit 4 State Power and the Week 5 Assignment 4
Superstructure
Unit 5 Vanguard Party/ Proletarian Week 5 Assignment 5
Revolution
Module 3 Understanding the Meaning
of Socialism
Unit 1 Exploitation and Oppression Week 6 Assignment 1
Unit 2 Utopian Socialism Week 7 Assignment 2
Unit 3 Marx Scientific Socialism Week 8 Assignment 3
Unit 4 Class (A class in Itself to a
Class for Itself )
Week 9 Assignment 4
Unit 5 Socialist Theory and Week 10 Assignment 5
Working Class Movement
Module 4 Marxist Political Economy
Unit 1 Capitalist Economy Week 11 Assignment 1
Unit 2 Mode of Production and Week 12 Assignment 2
Relations of Production
Unit 3 Marx Theories of Value-
Commoditisation,
Week 13 Assignment 3
Reification, Labor Power,
Use and Exchange Value,
Surplus Value and Primitive
Accumulation.
Unit 4 Marxism after Marx Week 14 Assignment 4
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