BA International Relations
Entry requirements
A level: AAB BTEC: DDD. IB: 35 overall (6,5,5 higher).
About this course
BA in International Relations, a politics and international relations degree examining global politics, foreign policy, and state interactions. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a final year project in their third year. The first year introduces foundational themes through compulsory modules such as The Politics of Global Challenges: Becoming an Independent Researcher, International Politics, Making of the Modern World, and Comparative Politics. The second year builds analytical frameworks through compulsory study in Approaches to Analysis, Theories of International Relations, and Global Security Challenges, alongside optional subjects including Politics and Policy in the EU and State and Politics in Africa. The final year focuses on advanced study and independent research through compulsory modules like POLIS Final Year Project, British Foreign Policy, Gender, Violence, and Security in Global Politics, and Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics.
Modules
- The Politics of Global Challenges: Becoming an Independent Researcher
- International Politics
- Making of the Modern World
- Comparative Politics
- Approaches to Analysis
- Theories of International Relations
- Global Security Challenges
- Politics and Policy in the EU
- Analysing Data in Politics, International Development and International Relations
- United States Politics
- Politics of Contemporary China
- State and Politics in Africa
- The Political Economy of North-South Relations
- POLIS Final Year Project
- British Foreign Policy
- Gender, Violence, and Security in Global Politics
- American Foreign Policy
- Terrorism
- Europe in the World
- Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics
- Global Political Economy