BA Global Politics (Cornwall)
Entry requirements
ABB 32/655
About this course
BA in Global Politics (Cornwall), a politics and international relations degree centred on political theory, international systems, and global challenges. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Accounting, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Design & Creative Practice. The course is taught on the Penryn campus in Cornwall. The first year covers foundational ideas through compulsory modules including Foundations of Environmental Humanities, Power, Inequality and Global Justice, Political Communication, and Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship, alongside optional choices such as British Government and Politics or Work Placement. The second year progresses with compulsory study in Introduction to Postcolonialism, Political Geographies: Local to Global, and Political Analysis, paired with options like American Politics, Security Studies, and Politics of the Middle East. Optional modules across the degree allow specialisation in historical, cultural, and policy themes. Students also complete a dissertation in the final year.
Modules
- Foundations of Environmental Humanities
- Power, Inequality and Global Justice
- Political Communication
- Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship
- British Government and Politics
- Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations
- Violence in World Politics
- Work Placement
- Climate Emergency! Environmental Humanities Fieldschool
- Historical Sources and Skills: Microhistory and History from Below
- Public History
- New Approaches to History
- European History: Politics and Society
- An Introduction to Histories of Science and Environment
- Global History: Twentieth Century Transformations
- Introduction to Postcolonialism
- Political Geographies: Local to Global
- Political Analysis
- Apocalyptic Narratives: Disaster Writing
- Ecology and Empire
- Art and Archaeology in Post-Colonial Nations
- Stolen Histories: Colonialism, Looting, and the Illicit Trade of Cultural Heritage
- Critical Elements of Environmental Humanities: Cultures of Earth and Water
- The Occult in Victorian Britain
- Germany 1500-Present: Cultural and Political Histories
- Enlightenment and the Age of Reason: Philosophy, Politics, Society
- Revolution and Abolition: History and Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- American Politics
- National and Community Identity
- The Political Psychology of Elites
- Work Placement
- Imagining the Good Life: From Agora to the American Dream
- Security Studies
- Politics of the Middle East
- Global Authoritarianism
- Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality
- Politics, Policy and Economics