BA Politics
Entry requirements
A level: AAB BTEC: DDD IB: 35 overall (6,5,5 higher)
About this course
BA in Politics, a politics and international relations degree focused on political systems, theory, and institutions. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a compulsory final-year project and offers specialisms such as the Parliamentary Studies Pathway with a placement year and the Quantitative Research Methods pathway. The first year covers the foundations through The Politics of Global Challenges: Becoming an Independent Researcher, Comparative Politics, British Politics, and Freedom Power and Resistance. The second year introduces analytical methods via Approaches to Analysis, alongside optional choices spanning Revolution and Reaction, Justice, Conflict and Community, The Labour Party since 1945, Politics and Policy in the EU, Media and Democracy, United States Politics, State and Politics in Africa, Planet Politics, and Britain in Flux: crisis and change in UK political economy. The third year centres on the POLIS Final Year Project alongside compulsory modules such as Video Games, Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics, Ethics and Politics of Human Rights, British Foreign Policy, The Far Right in Europe and Beyond, Rethinking Resistance, Politics of National Identity in the UK, Gender, Violence and Security in Global Politics, Terrorism, The End of British Politics?, and Europe in the World.
Modules
- The Politics of Global Challenges: Becoming an Independent Researcher
- Comparative Politics
- British Politics
- Freedom Power and Resistance
- Approaches to Analysis
- Revolution and Reaction
- Justice, Conflict and Community
- The Labour Party since 1945
- Politics and Policy in the EU
- Media and Democracy
- United States Politics
- State and Politics in Africa
- Planet Politics
- Britain in Flux: crisis and change in UK political economy
- POLIS Final Year Project
- Video Games
- Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics
- Ethics and Politics of Human Rights
- British Foreign Policy
- The Far Right in Europe and Beyond
- Rethinking Resistance
- Politics of National Identity in the UK
- Gender, Violence and Security in Global Politics
- Terrorism
- The End of British Politics?
- Europe in the World