Baccalauréat international · IB Diploma
Global Politics · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Dossiers, échantillons et documents de programme pour ce cours.
Course units and learning goals · Unités de cours et objectifs d'apprentissage
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Ces leçons abordent des objectifs de cours sélectionnés. Vérifiez les lacunes restantes en couverture ; ce matériel ne constitue pas un programme d'entraînement complet.
Core · Power, legitimacy and source analysis
- Explain power relationships using concepts
- Compare source claims and perspectives against evidence
- legitimacy
- Accepted justification for authority.
- agenda
- The issues selected for attention or decision.
Thematic studies · Rights, development, sustainability and peace
- Analyse connections between rights/justice, development/sustainability and peace/conflict
- Evaluate competing perspectives with bounded examples
- justice
- Principles and practices of fair treatment.
- sustainability
- Maintaining well-being and resources over time.
Engagement project · Engagement and reflective research
- Form a focused political issue and conduct approved engagement
- Connect experience, research, perspectives and critical reflection
- engagement
- Approved direct experience connected to a political inquiry.
- perspective
- A position from which an issue is understood.
Preparing for this qualification · Préparation à cette qualification
- SL: Paper 1 75 min 30%, Paper 2 90 min 40%, engagement project 30%. HL: Paper 1 75 min 20%, Paper 2 90 min 30%, stimulus Paper 3 90 min 30%, engagement project 20%.
- Use the 2026 core/thematic model and HL stimulus paper, not the retired 2017 HL presentation. School approves a safe, non-partisan engagement and bounded case selection.
Teaching coverage still needed · Couverture pédagogique encore nécessaire
- Full guide required for prescribed content and HL challenge selection; verified current cases, complete source papers and real approved engagement remain.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Spécifications et documents d'échantillon
- Global Politics — Subject brief · 2017 ↗
First assessment: 2017
- Global Politics — Subject brief · 2026 ↗
First assessment: 2026
Course materials · Matériel pédagogique
- Study notes · Notes de cours →
- Revision questions · Questions de révision →
- Teaching guidance · Guide pédagogique · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnostique enseignant · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Supervised task guidance · Guide pour la tâche supervisée · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
Course preparation · Préparation du cours
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Les documents sont disponibles. Les notes spécifiques au conseil, les évaluations et la pratique interactive des anciens sujets ne sont pas encore disponibles pour tous les cours.
Lessons · Leçons →