BA International Relations
Entry requirements
A level: ABB
About this course
BA in Politics and International Relations, combining the study of domestic politics with global affairs. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course includes an extended research project, which may take the form of a dissertation or a simulation-based group activity with a Model United Nations conference. Welsh politics is also studied, and the university hosts an International Relations and International Law lecture series with speakers from institutions such as NATO and the UN Security Council.
Modules
- Introduction to Political Thought
- Comparative Government and Politics
- Histories and Texts in International Relations
- Key Questions in Global Politics
- Challenges in Contemporary Politics and International Relations
- Thinking Politically
- International Relations Theories
- Global Governance: Contested Orders and International Organisations
- Global Crises
- International (In)Securities
- Spies, Secrets and Policy: Intelligence in Contemporary Politics
- Gender, Race & Death in Global Politics
- Colonialism and Decolonisation
- Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
- Politics by Numbers: Research Design and Analysis
- Qualitative Research
- Comparative European Politics
- Sex, Drugs and Public Policy
- Justice and Politics
- Making Modern Britain
- Political Thinkers in Focus
- Modern Welsh Politics
- Gwleidyddiaeth Cymru Fodern
- Ideas and Ideologies
- Credoau’r Cymry
- Damcaniaethu Cyfalafiaeth
- International Relations Dissertation
- Model United Nations
- Problem-solving in International Relations
- International Law in a Changing World
- International Politics in the Nuclear Age
- War & Society
- Global Politics of Cybersecurity: Diplomacy and Governance of Emerging Technologies
- Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
- Strategy in Theory and Practice
- Critical Approaches to Middle East Politics
- Anglo-American Relations and Cold War Defence
- Global Environmental Politics
- Inside the Minds of Voters: Political Psychology and Opinion
- The European Union and the Wider World
- The Political Economy of Wales
- Economi Wleidyddol Cymru
- Non-Western and Cross-Cultural Political Thinking
- Parliamentary Studies
- Bombs, Bullets and Ballot-Boxes: The Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace Process from 1969
- US Government and Politics
- Global Justice
- Cenedlaetholdeb, Crefydd a Chyfiawnder: Hanes Athroniaeth yr 20fed Ganrif yng Nghymru