BSc Politics and History
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Historical Research. The programme includes an optional placement year, and students complete a dissertation in their final year. Modules cover quantitative political science, research design, and contemporary challenges in social and political analysis.
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
- Historians and their Craft
- The First World War: Causes, Course, Consequences
- 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
- Issues in American Politics
- Middle East: Societies, Religion and Politics
- Military History and Strategic Thought
- National Security Intelligence
- Plato’s Republic
- South Asia: Cultures, Societies and Development
- Struggles for Emancipation
- Advanced Research Skills for History
- Dissertation
- Apocalypse! Crisis and Society
- Digital Media, Social Movements and Change
- Environment and Sustainability
- European Union Politics: Problems and Prospects
- 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
- Media, Politics & Power in America
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Parliamentary Studies
- Politics and Digital Cultures
- Political Satire and Comedy
- Primary Source Workshop
- Public Policy Analysis
- Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- The Second World War
- Violence and Conflict in Eastern Africa