BA Politics and International Relations with a Year in Industry
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 120 UCAS Tariff points or a final overall IB score of 33 points
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations, combining the study of political systems with international affairs. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students may spend a year studying abroad in North America, Asia-Pacific or mainland Europe. The final year includes an independent project chosen from a research dissertation, policy paper, or documented civic engagement.
Modules
- Making Sense of Politics
- The Power of Political Ideas
- Roots of Contemporary Politics
- States and the World
- Understanding Change in British Politics
- War, Violence and Peace
- Doing Politics with Words
- Global Governance of Peace and Security
- Doing Politics with Numbers
- The Politics of Climate Change
- The Politics of the EU
- Democracy Under Threat
- American Politics
- Politics of the Global Economy
- Foreign Policy: Systems, States and Leaders
- State and Revolution: Foundations of Modern Political Thought
- Final Year Project
- Negotiation: Theory and Practice
- Politics of the Global Economy
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Transforming British Politics
- Public Opinion in Politics
- Dictatorships
- Political Theory of the Future
- Who Do You Think You Are? On Identity Politics
- Politics of the Middle East and North Africa: Space, Society and Politics
- Security Challenges in the Indo-Pacific