BA History and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: BBC-BBB IB: We are happy to accept IB qualifications which achieve the required number of UCAS Tariff points. Subject-specific requirements at Higher Level (HL) Grade 5 may apply.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations and History. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Project Management. The final year includes an independent study project alongside a Politics and International Relations dissertation, and the second year features a placement-based module where students apply historical knowledge to public-facing projects.
Modules
- Histories of Crime, Policing, and Punishment
- Becoming a Historian
- Global Politics: 1918 to the Present Day
- Introduction to Political Concepts and Theory
- UK Politics - Issues and Challenges Since 1979
- Introduction to International Relations
- Language 1
- History in the Making
- Research Methods for Politics
- Digital Detectives
- Global Revolution: The Postcolonial World Order, 1896-1957
- Writing History
- The US and the World
- The Global Cold War
- Comparative European Politics
- Political Ideologies
- Contemporary US Politics
- Preparing for Work in Politics
- Global and National Capital and Labour in the 20th Century
- Rise to Globalism: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1939
- Dissertation - Politics and International Relations
- Independent Study Project
- Critical Migration Studies
- British Rule in Palestine
- A Century of Crime and Its Contexts: Circa 1840-1940
- Global Antisemitism and Islamophobia
- Gender and Power
- Space is the place: the history and politics of the space age
- Black Life and Black Protest: From Jim Crow to Black Lives Matter
- Strategic Political Communications
- Politics Work Placement
- Advanced Parliamentary Studies
- Advanced International Relations - Focus on Asia
- Advanced Political and Ethical Theory
- Global and National Activist Movements