BA Politics and International Relations
Entry requirements
A level: IB: 34 points
About this course
BA Honours in Politics and International Relations. Core topics include research methods and policy analysis. A Politics Work Placement module is available, and a career development module is offered in the final year. The programme begins with a foundation in systems of government, political theory and world politics before students specialise through optional modules.
Modules
- UK Politics: Westminster and Beyond
- 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
- Politics of Happiness
- State, People and Politics: Comparative Politics in a Globalised World
- Becoming a Political Researcher
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Social Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy
- 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
- 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