BA International Relations
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 34 points
About this course
BA Honours in Politics and International Relations. Core topics include Research Methods and Policy Analysis. Students may study abroad at partner universities in Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, and the USA, and the programme includes a Politics Work Placement module. Optional specialist modules cover areas including the Middle East, the USA, the European Union, and critical security studies.
Modules
- Key Concepts in International Politics
- Order and Disorder: The Shaping of the 21st Century
- Power and Inequality: How to Study Global Politics ... and Change the World
- State, People and Politics: Comparative Politics in a Globalised World
- UK Politics: Westminster and Beyond
- Politics of Happiness
- Introduction to Cultural Studies
- Politics and Society
- Becoming a Political Researcher
- Political Geography
- Politics of the Middle East
- Government and Politics of the USA
- The Politics and Policy of the European Union
- Power and Poverty in the Global Economy
- A Global History of Political Thought
- International Politics from ‘elsewhere’
- Political Violence and the Modern State
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Social Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Politics Work Placement
- Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies
- Critical Security Studies
- Democracy or Autocracy? What are the differences and how do we analyse them
- Sex, Gender and Power
- The Politics of Race
- International Organizations and Diplomacy
- Geographies of Power and Resistance
- Career Development for final year students
- Writing for Foreign Policy Makers: Research Project in Foreign Policy Analysis
- Final Year Dissertation
- Final Year Project: Semester 1
- Final Year Project: Semester 2
- Ethics, Justice and Global Futures
- Political Leadership in Britain
- Who and why votes for far right? Using data for political analysis
- The Politics of Protest in the Middle East
- Student Exchange : Semester 1
- Student Exchange (Dissertation students)
- Political Parties and Elections in the UK
- Community-based Research in Politics
- Politics of Immigration
- Politics of Citizenship
- Apartheid regimes - from the local to the global
- Gender and Sexuality Politics in the Middle East
- Public Policy: Theories, Cases, Skills
- Politics as a Way of Life
- Public Policy Placement
- Power and Policy: Understanding Impact