BSc International Relations and History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
A BSc (Hons) in Politics and International Relations. Core topics include statistics, research methods, historical research, and critical and analytical thinking. The programme includes a dissertation module where students plan, design, and execute an independent research project. According to the National Student Survey 2025, this course ranked 2nd in London for Politics.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges
- Fundamentals of the Social Sciences
- Special Subjects A
- Special Subjects B
- Explaining Politics: Quantitative Political Science in Practice
- From Student to Scholar: Successful Research in the Modern World
- Theories of International Relations
- Climate Politics
- Colonialism and Decolonization in Africa
- Colonialism, Migration and Global Racism
- Fascist Italy, 1919-1945: Revolution, Conflict and Collapse
- Gender, Sexuality and Feminism
- Insurgency and Counter-insurgency
- Military History and Strategic Thought
- Middle East: Societies, Religion and Politics
- National Security Intelligence
- Plato’s Republic
- South Asia: Cultures, Societies and Development
- The State and Revolution
- Advanced Research Skills for Social and Political Sciences
- Dissertation
- Apocalypse! Crisis and Society
- The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Digital Media, Social Movements and Change
- Environment and Sustainability
- European Union Politics: Problems and Prospects
- Global Development: Critical Perspectives
- Great Power Competition: Russia, China and the USA
- International Development: Politics and Policy
- Lawyers, Guns and Money: Making the modern world-system
- Marx and the Critique of Political Economy
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Political Economy of the Changing World Order
- Primary Source Workshop
- The Second World War
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Violence and Conflict in Eastern Africa