BA Politics and International Relations (Cornwall)
About this course
BA in Politics and International Relations (Cornwall), a politics and international relations degree centred on political systems, global power dynamics, and international governance. Core topics include Research Methods, Project Management, Accounting, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The programme is delivered on the Penryn campus in Cornwall with small class sizes and offers opportunities for practical work experience. The first year introduces foundational themes through compulsory modules such as British Government and Politics, Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations, Political Communication, and Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship, alongside optional choices. The second year advances core knowledge through compulsory study in Security Studies, Political Analysis, and Politics, Policy and Economics. Students can also tailor their studies through various optional modules spanning regional politics, historical perspectives, and environmental themes.
Modules
- British Government and Politics
- Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations
- Political Communication
- Generative AI and Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Society, and Scholarship
- Foundations of Environmental Humanities
- European History: Politics and Society
- An Introduction to Histories of Science and Environment
- Global History: Twentieth Century Transformations
- Violence in World Politics
- Power, Inequality and Global Justice
- Work Placement
- Security Studies
- Political Analysis
- Politics, Policy and Economics
- American Politics
- National and Community Identity
- The Political Psychology of Elites
- Work Placement
- 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
- Ecology and Empire
- Stolen Histories: Colonialism, Looting, and the Illicit Trade of Cultural Heritage
- Critical Elements of Environmental Humanities: Cultures of Earth and Water
- Germany 1500-Present: Cultural and Political Histories
- Enlightenment and the Age of Reason: Philosophy, Politics, Society