BA History and International Relations
Entry requirements
A-Level: AAB-ABB IB: 34/665-32/655 BTEC: DDD-DDM
About this course
BA in History and International Relations, a Politics and International Relations and History degree spanning historical developments and global political systems. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Accounting, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Teaching takes place on the Penryn campus in Cornwall. During the first year, students study compulsory modules including New Approaches to History, Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations, Political Communication, and Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship, alongside optional choices such as Public History and British Government and Politics. The second year builds professional competencies through compulsory modules like The Practice of History, Security Studies, and Political Analysis, while offering diverse optional modules such as American Politics, Global Authoritarianism, and Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality. In the final year, students can select from a broad range of optional modules to tailor their studies to specific interests.
Modules
- New Approaches to History
- Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations
- Political Communication
- Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship
- Foundations of Environmental Humanities
- Historical Sources and Skills: Microhistory and History from Below
- Public History
- European History: Politics and Society
- An Introduction to Histories of Science and Environment
- Global History: Twentieth Century Transformations
- British Government and Politics
- Violence in World Politics
- Power, Inequality and Global Justice
- The Practice of History
- Security Studies
- 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
- Humanities in the Workplace (Penryn)
- 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
- Imagining the Good Life: From Agora to the American Dream
- Introduction to Postcolonialism
- Political Geographies: Local to Global
- Politics of the Middle East
- Global Authoritarianism
- Politics of Gender, Sex and Sexuality
- Politics, Policy and Economics