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Welcome to IB Global Politics
Welcome to IB Global Politics
This website is intended to serve as a resource for students, families and educators as they move through the Global Politics (GloPo) curriculum. While there are elements specific to the unique situation and interests of my students, I do hope that these resources are helpful to GloPo instructors throughout the IB landscape. If you are coming to these resources from another school or perhaps even another country, please reach out via the contact page! I'd love to hear from you.
What is Global Politics?
What is Global Politics?
Put most simply, GloPo is the study of how humans build and interact through political institutions. As the course title suggests, the focus rests primarily on examining human interaction on an international level. States (countries) are examined both in their interactions with other states and in their management of domestic politics. According to the IB guide, GloPo is designed to:
Explore and evaluate the complex nature of power in contemporary global politics
Examine how [state and non-state?] actors operate within the global system
Undertake a carefully informed analysis of contemporary political challenges underpinned by research skills
Develop a lifelong commitment to active global citizenship through collaboration and agency
In practice, the course revolves around studying theory of political interaction and then applying said theory to more deeply understand case examples. The theories and the case examples form the building-blocks of expressing knowledge in the GloPo context.
There are four key units in the course:
These units each bring with them new theories to absorb and novel case studies through which they are applied and synthesized.
Assessments in Global Politics
Assessments in Global Politics
For IB diploma purposes, there are four assessments to consider which can further be split into two categories.
Internal Assessments - these are activities that take place within the normal flow the curriculum and will be completed during your normal academic progress through the IB1 and IB2 years.
HL Extension - Two oral presentations on specific Global Political Challenges
Engagement Activity - An immersive and action oriented project on a specific political question. Submission in the form of a 2000 word research/reflection paper
External Assessments - these are the testing days that, presumably, take place at the very end of the IB2 year.
SL vs. HL - What's the Difference?
SL vs. HL - What's the Difference?
Though it may vary from instructor to instructor, there is relatively little difference between the SL and HL structure in my particular practice. The is due primarily to the fact that all students, regardless of whether they will be submitting to the IB, will complete the Global Political Challenge oral presentations. Thus, the only material (in terms of the amount of work students will complete) difference between the HL and SL levels if the number of Paper 2 topics that will be completed. I highly encourage students who have some comfort in the material to select the HL option.
As shown in the comparison at left, if all students complete the HL Extensions, then the primary difference between the two tracks is one additional Paper 2
Criteria
Criteria
There are four assessment criteria for GloPo, each focusing on a different skill integral to overall fluency in the course.
They are:
Knowledge and Understanding
Application and Analysis
Synthesis and Evaluation
Use and Application of Appropriate Skills
To see where these criteria are applied in some aspects of the course, see the chart to the right.
As always, your grades on individual WIHI assessments will follow a 0-8 scale based on these same criteria. Rubrics for individual assignments can include a range of one to all of these criteria markers.
IB1 and IB2 General Calendar
IB1 and IB2 General Calendar
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