Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

POL 319 — Contemporary Political Analysis

POL department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• know the nature of political analysis
• discuss the relevance of competing paradigms in political analysis
• know theories/models of political analysis; and
• apply relevant paradigms/theories/models to analysis of political phenomena

Course contents

Contending paradigms in contemporary political analysis, their philosophical and ideological roots, as well as evaluation. Elite approach, group theory, functional systems and communications theory. Basic concepts and elements of game theory and political gaming. Structural analysis. Theories of political development.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study POL 319.

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