BA Politics and History
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 34 points
About this course
BA Honours in Politics and International Relations and History, examining political issues and historical events. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Modules span six continents, covering a variety of periods, geographies, and cultures. Students complete a range of research projects during the degree.
Modules
- Evidence and Argument
- Order and Disorder: The Shaping of the 21st Century
- Global Middle Ages
- Stuff: living in a material world
- Global Ancient Histories
- Historical Sources and Methods
- History Lab I
- History Lab II
- Introduction to Public History
- What is History For?
- UK Politics: Westminster and Beyond
- Key Concepts in International Politics
- 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
- Studying Political Economy: Ideas, Theories and Skills
- From Lascaux to Knossos: Prehistoric Europe
- Archaeologies of the Roman Empire: The Roman World from Augustus to Diocletian
- Colonial Worlds: History and Archaeology
- Hellenistic Empires from Alexander to Cleopatra
- The Roman World from Hadrian to Heraclius
- Greek and Roman Religions
- Slavery in Greco-Roman Antiquity
- Sacred words and dirty deeds: Thriving in Late Antiquity
- The Mediterranean: a connected past
- Africa: History of a Continent
- Oral History of Modern Britain
- 1968: A Global Moment?
- Crafting History: Developing a Research Proposal
- War, Wounds, and Disabilities in Global Perspectives
- Famines in History
- History and Film: Representing the Past
- Researching History
- Reformation and Revolution: Tudors to the Georgians
- Destroying Nature: Disasters, Diseases and Environmental Injustice
- Diversities of Sexuality and Gender in History
- Politics in Britain: National Life since 1945
- Comparative History of Hispano-America and Brazil: From Independence to the Mexican Revolution (1789/1810-1917)
- Politics of the Middle East
- Becoming a Political Researcher
- 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
- 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
- Early Medieval Britain
- Frontier Communities of Roman Britain
- Early Prehistoric Europe: Origins and transformations
- Fundamentals of Digital Humanities: Computer literacy, data analysis and GIS
- Reading History
- Writing History
- Public History In Practice
- The Irish Revolution, 1879-1923
- Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1900
- British Foreign Policy since Suez
- Birth Control in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Gender and the British Empire: Violence towards Men and Women in the Making of Modern South Asia
- Lunatic to Citizen? Madness and Society since 1900
- The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1961-1990
- Buddhism and Society in Medieval Japan
- The Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps - Origins, Experiences and Aftermaths
- Nineteenth Century Aotearoa New Zealand: Maori, Pakeha & Tauiwi
- War and Remembering: Recalling War in Oral Histories, c.1950-2022
- May 1968: All Power to the Imagination
- Fictional Histories: from medieval to modern
- Exhausted! The problem of sleep (and not sleeping) from 1500 to the present day
- Beyond Brexit: The UK and European Integration since 1945
- Riot, Reform and Revolution: Britain c.1760-1832
- Read All About It! The News Revolution in Georgian Britain, 1714-1800
- Inter-American Relations from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Cold War (1989/1991)
- 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
- 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
- Power and Policy: Understanding Impact
- Envious Show: Wealth, Power and Ambition in Narratives of the Country House, 1550-2000