BA Politics
Entry requirements
A level: BBB in three A Levels. IB: 555 in three Higher Levels or 30 points.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, and Social & Cultural Analysis. The course includes a final-year dissertation and offers an optional placement year or year abroad. Parliamentary Studies is taught in conjunction with Westminster Parliament staff.
Modules
- Making Sense of Politics
- Becoming a Social Scientist
- Exploring Inequalities
- Modern History: From the Industrial Revolution to the Global Pandemic
- Understanding contemporary world politics
- British Politics: Welfare, Economy and Society
- Global Democracy under Threat: Resilience or Retreat?
- Social Science Methods
- Data Analysis in Social Sciences
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
- Environmental Politics and Policy
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Social Sciences Placement
- Elections, Voters and Public Opinion
- Public Policy and How To Make It
- Globalisation and its Discontents
- Social Sciences at Work
- Dissertation in Politics and IR - ISP
- Engaged Social Science
- 'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America
- The Extreme Right in Western Europe
- Environmental Political Economy
- Work Placement for Social Sciences Final Year Students
- Contemporary Democratic Theory
- Parliamentary Studies