BA Politics
Entry requirements
A level: CCC to BCC IB: 28 points overall.
About this course
BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations, covering domestic governance and international political systems. Core topics include Policy Analysis, Research Methods, Data Analysis, Global and Comparative Perspective, Human Behaviour, and Entrepreneurship. An optional work placement year of at least 39 weeks is available between the second and final years. A virtual exchange module delivered online in collaboration with Clemson University in the USA is also offered.
Modules
- Comparative Politics in the 21st Century
- People, Power and Politics
- Who Runs Britain?
- Just Space: Building Equity and Inclusion
- Key Social Science Concepts
- Skills for Social and Political Sciences
- Political Parties
- Researching in Social & Political Sciences
- Thinking Politics
- Working in Politics and International Relations
- Challenges of European Politics
- Comparative Criminology Virtual Exchange: Criminal Justice Policy Analysis in the USA and UK
- Conceptualising Sex Work
- Debating Welfare States
- Education: Inequalities, Immobility and Life Chances
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Governing America
- Ideology into Practice
- Model United Nations
- Nations and Nationalism
- Organised Crime in Global Perspective
- Policing and Society
- Power, Sex and Sexuality
- Resilience and disaster management
- Social and Political Sciences Work Placement Year
- Social Policy and the Third Sector
- Strategic Studies
- The Vigilant State: intelligence and national security
- Transnational Security Studies
- Understanding the City
- Work and Society
- Youth Justice
- Youth, Deviance and Society
- Independent Study (Social Science)
- Parliamentary Studies
- Politics and its Discontents
- Analysing Policy Futures: Power and Progress
- Becoming a Data Analyst
- Body Politics
- Central Asia in Global Politics
- Challenges of the Global Public Sphere
- Children, Families and the State
- Decolonial Futures
- Drugs and Society
- Emotions in Everyday Social Life
- Extremism, Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- Gender and Violence
- Global Health Governance
- Green Criminology
- Harm, Power and Justice
- Housing Crisis, Continuity and Change
- International Human Rights (Social Sciences)
- International Relations of the Middle East
- Masculinity, Gender and Power
- Migration and Borders in the UK and Europe
- Policing Crime and Deviance: UK and Beyond
- Policing in Practice
- Race and Racism
- Understanding Multiculturalism and Policy Practices
- War Crimes and Genocide