# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand the competing interpretations of what politics is, who does it and where it is done
- grasp the importance of politics and the variety of ways in which politics affects your everyday life
- better understand the contestability of concepts in politics, and the implications of such contestability for the practice and study of politics.

OpenLearn - What is politics?
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