BA History and Politics
City St George's, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 29 points overall. A minimum of 5 in Standard Level English and a minimum of 4 in Standard Level Mathematics will be required.
About this course
BA in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Communication & Writing. Dedicated core seminars are offered exclusively for this joint degree. An optional placement year extends the course to four years.
Modules
- Introduction to Politics
- The Development of the Modern World
- The Bigger Picture: History in Contemporary Politics and Culture
- Approaches in Comparative Politics
- Modern Political Thought: History and Theory
- London in the World: History, Economics and Politics
- Finding your Future in Politics and History
- Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics
- Making History Public
- Ideas that Shaped the Century: A History of Political Thought from 1900 to the present
- Security Studies
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Comparative Capitalism
- Authoritarianism and Democracy in the 21st Century
- The Global Political Economy of Development
- Global Governance
- Ethics and Global Politics
- Politics and Institutions in the Global South
- Global History of Modern Empires
- The History and Politics of Modern Europe: Empires, States, Unions
- Fifty Shades of Red – Russia in the Twentieth Century
- The American Century: The United States in the Twentieth Century
- The Making of Modern South Asia
- The History and Politics of Modern China
- Interdisciplinary elective modules:
- Fundamentals of Business and Management
- Introduction to Programming and Algorithms
- Media and Communication for Practice and the Professions
- Working with Numbers: A Practical Guide to Data Analysis
- Work Placement
- Language modules
- History Dissertation
- Politics Dissertation
- Revolution: Rebels and Riots in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Genocide and the Holocaust In History and Memory
- Humanitarianism and International intervention
- History of International Law
- International Politics of the Middle East
- American Foreign Policy
- Global Money and Finance
- Technology, Money, Power
- Ethnicity and nationalism: Global comparisons
- Researching the Corporation
- Sexuality and Gender in World Politics
- The Offshore World
- Strategic Studies
- Peace and Transitional Justice
- Populism: Economic, Political and Social Perspectives
- Political Psychology: Emotion and reason in politics
- The Political Economy of Modern Britain: Power, Policy and Wealth
- European Politics
- Global South in International Politics
- Race and Capitalism
- Comparative Asian Politics
- The Politics of War
- Finance in the Global South
- Micro-Placement
- Language modules
- Professional Placement and Career Development