BA Politics & International Relations
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 A level: Minimum three A levels to include grades CCC. No specific subjects required. Welsh Advanced Skills Baccalaureate considered as a third subject. BTEC/Cambridge Technical: MMM IB: No specific subjects required.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations, examining political systems, governance and global affairs. Core topics include research methods. The programme includes an Individual Evidence Based Project as a final-year module. Engagement with the Welsh Parliament and Senedd is a feature of the course, drawing on proximity to policymakers in Wales.
Modules
- Introduction to Social Science
- Introduction to the ‘isms’
- Everyday Politics
- Arguing Politics: Today’s Landscape
- What is Politics?
- Global Politics and International Relations
- Revolution, Evolution, Devolution: UK Politics Since 1945
- The Politics of Policy Making
- Regions and Powers
- Social Research Methods
- Critical Theories: Interrogating Knowledge
- (In)Security in a Global World
- Political Economy and International Relations
- Scrutiny and the Senedd
- Interrogating the International
- Individual Evidence Based Project
- Research and Employability
- Political Communication and Influence
- Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of Zero Carbon