During the first year you will study Political Participation and Government. You look at democracy and participation, political parties, electoral systems, voting behaviour and the media, the constitution, Parliament, the Prime Minister and the relationship between the branches. You will also start to consider different ideologies including conservatism and liberalism. All of this will focus on the UK. During the second year you will complete your investigation into the ideologies of socialism and feminism and then investigate the American political system, including the US constitution and federalism, Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court and civil rights, democracy and participation and then compare this to the UK political system.