BA International Relations with Economics with Year Abroad
Entry requirements
A Level: AAB. IB: 6,6,5 at Higher Level with a minimum of 32 points overall. BTEC: BTEC options considered
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with Economics with Year Abroad BA, a politics and international relations degree spanning economics and politics and international relations. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course includes a dedicated year abroad spent studying at a partner institution. The first year introduces the foundations through Principles of Economics, Introduction to Mathematics for Economics, Debates in World Politics I, and Understanding International Relations. The second year builds competence in core areas via Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Relations Theory, and Research Design. Final-year students can select from optional modules spanning American Foreign and Security Policy, Advanced Macroeconomics, Health Economics, and Labour Economics, alongside an independent dissertation.
Modules
- Debates in World Politics I
- Debates in World Politics II
- Pathways to International Relations Research I
- Pathways to International Relations Research II
- Introduction to Mathematics for Economics
- Introduction to Political Theory
- Principles of Economics
- Understanding International Relations
- International Relations Theory
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- AI Essentials and Geopolitics
- Challenges to Liberal Democracy in Europe
- Comparative Politics
- Digital Democracy
- Global Governance
- Globalisation, Capitalism and Welfare
- International Political Economy
- International Security
- Political Ethics
- Parties and Voters across the Globe
- Politics of Sex and Sexuality
- Research Design
- Russian Politics: From Revolution to Putin
- Sexuality and Identity Politics
- Social Research II
- The International Law and Politics of Armed Conflict
- UK Politics in a Time of Crisis
- US Politics
- Year Abroad
- Dissertation
- American Foreign and Security Policy
- China: State and Society
- Conflict and Peace in Deeply Divided Societies
- Contemporary International Political Economy
- Corruption and Clientelism: Global Perspective
- Environment and climate politics: from global to local
- Global Capitalism and Migration
- Global Security
- Identity in Middle East International Politics
- Nuclear Crises
- Parliamentary Studies
- Political Theory and Social Criticism
- Politics of South Asia
- Professional Development
- Strategy, Leadership and Foreign Policy
- The Diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- The Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality
- The Politics of Memory
- Topics in British Politics
- Understanding Brexit: Identity and Euroscepticism in Europe
- Advanced Behavioural and Experimental Economics
- Advanced Econometrics: Theory and Applications
- Advanced Financial Markets and Institutions
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Decision Theory and Games
- Economics of the European Union
- Health Economics
- History of Economic Thought
- Industrial Organisation
- International Trade Theory and Policy
- Labour Economics
- Monetary Policy and Dynamic Macroeconomics
- Public Economics