BA History and International Relations (Placement Year)
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in History and International Relations (Placement Year), a politics and international relations and history degree centred on historical perspectives and contemporary analysis of global affairs. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme incorporates a dedicated work-based learning placement year alongside an independent dissertation project in the final year. Beginning the first year, students establish foundational knowledge through core modules such as Origins and Foundations of International Relations, Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Global Governance and International Institutions, Revolutions in History, and Modern Worlds. The second year advances this understanding by focusing on contemporary transformations and research skills via Reshaping Global Order, War and Transformation, and Understanding Political Research. The third year consists of a professional work-based placement in an external sector or industry. The final year centres on independent research through the Politics and International Relations Dissertation. Optional modules throughout the degree span diverse subjects such as Authoritarianism, Repression and Resistance in the 21st century, Global Capitalism and its Discontent, Critical Political Theory, and Policymaking in the Real World.
Modules
- Origins and Foundations of International Relations
- Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
- Global Governance and International Institutions
- Revolutions in History
- Modern Worlds
- Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime
- English across Space and Time
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- Knowledge and Reality in a Complex World
- History of Philosophy: Ideas that Shaped the West
- Parties, Populism and Protest
- Thinking Sociologically
- Researching Society: Principles and Practices
- Reshaping Global Order
- War and Transformation
- Understanding Political Research
- Authoritarianism, Repression and Resistance in the 21st century
- Body, Mind and Society
- Death
- Global Capitalism and its Discontent
- Global Superpowers
- Britain in the 20th Century
- Inventing Rights
- Politics of the Global South
- War, Peace and Modernity
- Employability, Purpose and Social Impact (Discovery module)
- Global Challenges and Collaborative Solutions (Discovery module)
- Taking an Idea and Making it Happen (Discovery module)
- Work Based Learning Year
- Politics and International Relations Dissertation
- A Global History of the Cold War
- Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
- Big Data and Dead People: Digital Histories of Crime, Justice and Punishment, 1760-1925
- Critical Political Theory
- Critical Studies of War and Security
- Dangerous Thoughts': Soviet Dissent, Human Rights and the Cold War
- Democracy Under Pressure
- Environment and Development
- Europe and America
- Fascism, Revolution and War in Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
- Forging India: South Asia from Empire to Nation, 1829-1964
- From Balfour to Brexit: Britain as a Great Power since 1914
- From Rebellion to Revolution: The War for the Throne, 1199-1265
- Gender Identities in the People's War: Experiences, Representations and Memories
- Intelligent Design? Science, Religion and the Idea of Design in Nature, 1450-1800
- Paradise Lost: Colonisation and the Jamaican Environment, 1655-1838
- Parliamentary Studies
- Participation, Splendour and Violence: The Italian City-States, c.1100-1350
- Policymaking in the Real World
- Politics of Latin America and Africa
- Politics of the Middle East and Asia Pacific
- Russia and China
- Security, Strategy and Technology
- Beyond Captives and Commodities: Life-making in Portuguese West Africa (1450-1800)
- The Politics of Borders and Migration
- The Politics of Crises and the Future of Governance
- The Use and Abuse of History
- Victorian Bodies: Sex, Gender, Race and Power in Global Britain
- Queer Futures (Discovery module)
- People Power and Collective Action (Discovery module)
- Confronting the Climate Crisis (Discovery module)
- Artistic Fusions (Discovery module)