BA International Relations
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points overall with no score less than 4 or pass the IB Diploma plus 6,5,5 in 3 HL subjects. BTEC: Applications encouraged. BTEC applications are encouraged. We evaluate each BTEC application on its merits.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations, focusing on governance, global affairs, and political structures. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Communication & Writing, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students complete a placement year preparation module during the course of their studies.
Modules
- FOUNDATIONS IN POLITICS
- FOUNDATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL HISTORY
- COMPARATIVE POLITICS
- INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL THEORY 1
- INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH POLITICS
- GREEK WORLDS 1
- NORTHERN IRELAND BEFORE THE 'TROUBLES': FROM PARTITION TO CIVIL RIGHTS AND ARMALITES
- BRITISH POLITICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
- PUBLIC POLICY AND ETHICS
- ROMAN WORLDS 1
- RESEARCH METHODS SEQUENCE
- GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
- COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
- DEVOLUTION IN THE UK
- SECURITY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
- BRITISH PARTY POLITICS
- INTRODUCTION TO PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES
- POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC SPEAKING
- GENDER AND FEMINIST POLITICS: CORE CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
- GLOBAL NEWS, MEDIA AND WAR
- "DOES THE NATION MATTER?" THE BASQUES' WILL TO PERSIST IN THE GLOBAL CULTURE
- PLACEMENT YEAR PREPARATION
- ITALY, AFRICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN: FROM THE FASCIST EMPIRE TO THE PRESENT
- GLOBAL PUBLIC SPACES: RESISTANCE, JUSTICE AND HERITAGE
- POLITICS IN ACTION
- CRITICAL APPROACHES TO TRANSNATIONAL SECURITY
- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- THINKING ABOUT POLITICS
- POPULISM
- FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS AND INTERNATIONAL CRISES
- BRITISH POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
- AUTHORITARIAN POLITICS
- AUTHORITY, OBLIGATION AND DISOBEDIENCE
- THE POLTICS AND ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY
- INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- THE POLITICS OF 'RACE' AND MARGINALISATION
- INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE AND INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH DESIGN
- CONTEMPORARY SEXUAL POLITICS
- THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: POLITICS, CULTURE, MEMORY
- CONTEMPORARY PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
- AFRICA-CHINA RELATIONS IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ORDER
- SOLIDARITY, ACTIVISM AND BORDERS IN THE EU
- ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR AND DATA ANALYTICS
- FROM THE IRA TO THE FAR RIGHT: UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
- EU AS AN INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
- LOCAL PLACEMENT SCHEME
- POLITICS AND THE BRAIN
- STRATEGIC STUDIES IN CONFLICTS AND TERRORISM
- THE PUZZLE OF CIVIL WAR
- POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION AND CIVIC SPACE
- CONTEMPORARY REPUBLICAN POLITICAL THEORY
- ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: POWER, POLICY AND PLANETARY CRISIS
- EXTENDED RESEARCH ESSAY
- CONFLICT AND POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND
- CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS
- PUBLIC POLICY: AN ADVANCED INTRODUCTION
- POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT
- THEORIES OF POVERTY AND WEALTH
- INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION
- THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RHETORIC IN BRITISH POLITICS
- CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF NATIONALISM
- REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS
- COMPARATIVE PEACE PROCESSES
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UK
- PARLIAMENTARY PLACEMENT SCHEME
- PROBLEMS IN POLITICAL THEORY
- APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECT
- MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- DISSERTATION