BA Philosophy and Politics
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 and Philosophy, exploring political systems alongside philosophical theory. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Communication & Writing. This three-year undergraduate programme covers both disciplines in tandem.
Modules
- FOUNDATIONS IN POLITICS
- INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL HISTORY
- COMPARATIVE POLITICS
- ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- MIND, KNOWLEDGE AND REALITY
- THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
- ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY: THE EXAMINED LIFE
- MORAL PHILOSOPHY: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: SCIENCE IN SOCIETY
- BUSINESS ETHICS
- PROFESSIONAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- INTERROGATING CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL CHALLENGES
- UK GENERAL ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS SINCE 1945
- AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
- COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
- THINKING ABOUT POLITICS
- POPULISM
- DEVOLUTION IN THE UK
- SECURITY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
- DEMOCRATISATION AND POLITICAL CHANGE
- BRITISH PARTY POLITICS
- POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC SPEAKING
- GENDER AND FEMINIST POLITICS: CORE CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
- AUTHORITARIAN POLITICS
- PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
- LIBERTY, JUSTICE AND THE GOOD SOCIETY
- INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
- METAPHYSICS
- PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING
- USES, MISUSES AND ABUSES OF LANGUAGE
- CRITICAL APPROACHES TO TRANSNATIONAL SECURITY
- FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS AND INTERNATIONAL CRISES
- INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- BRITISH POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
- INTRODUCTION TO PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES
- BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY
- THE POLITICS OF 'RACE' AND MARGINALISATION
- CONTEMPORARY SEXUAL POLITICS
- AUTHORITY, OBLIGATION AND DISOBEDIENCE
- MIND, BRAIN AND CONSCIOUSNESS
- AESTHETICS
- EXISTENTIALISM
- PHILOSOPHY OF PLAY AND THE VIRTUAL
- CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
- PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY
- IMMIGRATION AND THE STATE
- CONTEMPORARY PARLIAMENTARY STUDIES
- SOLIDARITY, ACTIVISM AND BORDERS IN THE EU
- 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
- COMPARATIVE PEACE PROCESSES
- STRATEGIC STUDIES IN CONFLICTS AND TERRORISM
- THE PUZZLE OF CIVIL WAR
- POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION AND CIVIC SPACE
- AFRICA-CHINA RELATIONS IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ORDER
- CONSERVATIVE AND LABOUR THINKERS
- POLITICS AND THE BRAIN
- CONTEMPORARY REPUBLICAN POLITICAL THEORY
- ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR AND DATA ANALYTICS
- FROM THE IRA TO THE FAR RIGHT: UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
- EU AS AN INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
- FRONTIERS OF ETHICS
- LIFE, LANGUAGE AND ACTION
- PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES TO CONFLICT
- HEALTH CARE, ECONOMICS AND JUSTICE
- HELLENISTIC AND NEOPLATONIC PHILOSOPHY
- THE MEANING OF LIFE AND DEATH: THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UK
- REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS
- PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION
- DIGITAL INQUIRY PROJECT
- SCHOOL OF THE ARTS WORK PLACEMENTS MODULE
- DISSERTATION