BA Politics and Social Policy
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 Politics and Social Policy, a social policy and politics and international relations degree. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course culminates in an independent dissertation project. The first year covers foundational ideas through modules such as Introduction to Political Theory, Introduction to Social Policy, and Understanding Politics. The second year builds research competence with Social Research II and Comparative Politics alongside various thematic options. The final year allows specialisation through advanced topics like Quantitative Data Analysis and Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course, supported by a dissertation.
Modules
- Pathways to Political Research I
- Pathways to Political Research II
- Introduction to Political Theory
- Introduction to Social Divisions
- Introduction to Social Policy
- Social Problems and Social Policy: Social Science in Action Part 2
- Understanding Politics
- Social Research II
- Comparative Politics
- Research Design
- Africans in the Global Diaspora
- AI Essentials and Geopolitics
- Anthropology of the Middle East
- Challenges to Liberal Democracy in Europe
- Digital Democracy
- Global Governance
- Globalisation, Capitalism and Welfare
- Housing, Home and Place: Issues in Policy
- International Political Economy
- International Relations Theory
- International Security
- Kinship, Gender and Sexuality
- Parties and Voters across the Globe
- Political Anthropology
- Political Ethics
- Politics of Sex and Sexuality
- Politics of Sustainable Development
- Post-Colonial Britain: Race, Identity & Belonging
- Russian Politics: From Revolution to Putin
- Sexuality and Identity Politics
- The Anthropology of Sport and Recreation
- The International Law and Politics of Armed Conflict
- The Politics of the European Union
- UK Politics in a Time of Crisis
- US Politics
- Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems
- Gender and Sexuality
- Modern Sociological Theory
- Race and Racism
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Dissertation
- Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation
- African Popular Culture
- Africans in the Global Diaspora
- 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
- International Cooperation among Developing states
- International Negotiation
- Kinship, Gender and Sexuality
- Nuclear Crises
- Parliamentary Studies
- Political Anthropology
- Political Theory and Social Criticism
- Politics of South Asia
- Religion and Ritual
- Rising Powers & Global Order
- Social Justice and Politics
- Statelessness and Citizenship
- The Diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- The Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality
- The Politics of Memory
- The Politics of Protest and Dissent
- Topics in British Politics
- Divided Publics?
- Drugs: Society, Politics and Policy
- Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice
- Quantitative Data Analysis
- Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course
- Technology & Society