BA Politics and Contemporary History
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff: 104 tariff points. A level: BCC BTEC/Cambridge Technical: DMM IB: 28 points
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Research Methods and Project Management. Modules include a study visit to Brussels covering EU institutions and NATO, as well as a heritage work-placement module focused on practical experience in collections and preservation.
Modules
- Making History
- War and Peace: Twentieth Century Europe and Global Conflict
- The United States: An Introduction (1763 – The Present)
- Political Ideology: How Ideas Shape Politics and Why They Matter?
- Introduction to Soft Power: Britain and its Cultural Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century
- Russia and China: An Introduction To ‘Post-Communism’
- Approaches to Research
- Bio-Ethics
- Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Africa
- Contemporary Security Studies
- Enlightenment Europe: 1688-1789
- Fascism and Post-Fascism in Europe
- Freedom and Justice
- From ‘Angry Young Men’ to Cool Britannia?: A Historical Analysis of British Cultural Activity After 1945
- Heritage in Practice: Work Placements for History Students
- Identity and Conflict in Russia and Eurasia
- International Human Rights Law
- Islamic Identities: Unity and Diversity in Islam
- Popes and Politics
- Re-Litigating the Past: State, Media and Historical Injustice in Contemporary Britain
- Saints or Sinners: Politics and Religion in the Contemporary Era
- Study Visit
- A Global History of the Cold War
- British Culture Wars
- Dictatorship, Conformity and Resistance in Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia
- Dissertation
- France and the Modern World
- Globalisation and Its Malcontents
- International Law
- Philosophy and the Future
- Political Theology
- Unconscious Desires: Psychoanalysis and Culture From Freud to Žižek